• Grad Students Pursue Joint Degrees (D.O./Ph.D.)

    Recent medical anthropology students in the department are opting to pursue both a DO degree and a PhD in Anthropology through the joint degree program offered with the College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). Students who apply to both COM and the department can pursue both degrees over a period of seven or eight years, following […]

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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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  • The Department Newsletter for Spring 2016 is now available

    The Department of Anthropology is proud to present the newest edition of the biannual newsletter. Our Spring 2016 issue features these articles: Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman 2016 Winners of the Annual Fieldwork Photography Contest Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Anne Ferguson Meet Joan Reid, Graduate Secretary Dr. Heather Howard Visits Oxford University Alumni Spotlight on Dr. […]

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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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