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Open Faculty Position: Assistant Professor in Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Professor position. The appointment will begin August 16, 2017 and may be renewed annually based on the teaching needs of the department. The Department of Anthropology seeks a teaching professor focused on excellence in the anthropology classroom. This individual […]
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Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate Professor in Archaeology (Director, Campus Archaeology Program)
Michigan State University Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure system position in archaeology at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The appointment will begin August 16, 2017. We seek an anthropological archaeologist who has experience in public archaeology and heritage studies, and will be responsible for directing the MSU Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) […]
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Dr. Masako Fujita Receives NSF Grant for Research on Breastmilk
Dr. Masako Fujita received a National Science Foundation grant of $120,000 to fund her project, “Breastmilk antibody and micronutrient in association with maternal nutrition and infant sex in a polygynous Ariaal society of rural Kenya.” The project will be conducted in Fujita’s Biomarker Laboratory for Anthropological Research at MSU. The project will analyze milk samples […]
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Bruker Industries XRF Training Workshop at MSU
On September 7th and 8th the Department of Anthropology hosted an X Ray Florescence (XRF) training workshop by Dr. Bruce Kaiser and Mr. Zach Dismukes of Bruker Industries. The workshop was attended by 22 faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students from the Departments of Anthropology, Geology, and Forestry at MSU. Dr. Kaiser reviewed the basics of […]
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Department of Anthropology to Host Distinguished Antiquities Trafficking Scholar, Dr. Donna Yates
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announced that it will be hosting Dr. Donna Yates from October 24th to 28th. Yates is a Lecturer in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime at the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. An archaeologist by training, she is based out of a criminology department […]
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Grad Student Jessica Ott Receives Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Jessica Ott has been selected to receive a Fulbright-Hays DDRA for her research on women’s rights activism in Zanzibar. She is pictured here with a prominent activist, Fatma Alloo, in Zanzibar. Below is her project summary. Congratulations, Jessica! “Health rights for women’s rights: How Zanzibari feminist activists invoke the past to change the future for women” […]
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New Books by Dr. William Lovis
Marking the Land: Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment Edited by William A Lovis and Robert Whallon Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological Computational Modeling Edited by Marieka Brouwer Burg, Hans Peeters, and William A. Lovis This article appears in our Spring 2016 newsletter. Read the entire newsletter here.
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Barbara Rose Johnston selected to deliver Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture
Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston, Adjunct faculty member, was selected to deliver the Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) this past spring (2016). The SfAA honors the memory of Michael Kearney by selecting an outstanding contemporary scholar to present on a topic relevant to the three themes central in his work: migration, human rights, and […]
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News From Around The Department
The Department of Anthropology organized a visit to The Field Museum in Chicago this February to see “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander.” The group of 36 participants included undergraduate and graduate students in Anthropology along with faculty from Anthropology and History and several History undergraduate students. (Photograph, far right: Students in the lobby of the […]
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Update from the Undergraduate Club
This year, the Undergraduate Anthropology Club has been busy building personal and professional relationships, helping the community, and having a lot of fun along the way! We have had many professors speak to us about their research, bridging the gap between students and faculty. We are thankful for our supportive faculty, many of whom have […]