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Dr. Anne Ferguson Selected as Co-recipient of the 2016 Beverwyk Award
Dr. Anne Ferguson and Dr. Lisa Fine (History) will be honored at the 2016 Lavender Reception and Mosaic Awards as recipients of the 2016 Beverwyk Award. The two professors are Co-Directors of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) and were instrumental in the creation of the LBGTQ+ Studies minor, which became available in 2015. Deanna […]
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Kathryn Meyers Emery Awarded Excellence-in-Teaching Citation & Other Awards
Kathryn Meyers Emery was recently awarded one of the highest honors a graduate student at Michigan State University can receive, the Excellence-in-Teaching Citation, presented at the All-University Awards Convocation on February 9, 2016. She was given this award for both her formal and informal teaching of students in a variety of contexts, including Introduction to […]
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2016 Winners of the Annual Fieldwork Photography Contest
First place: “Layene religious ceremony” by Emily Riley. Yoff-Layene, Senegal. 2014 Second place: “Vietnamese Boats” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Third place: “Peruvian Dyes” by Nicole Williams. Chinchero, Peru. Honorable Mention: “The Duck Delivery” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Honorable Mention: “Wedding Blessing” by Emily Riley. Bambey, Senegal. 2014 […]
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Dr. Najib Hourani Speaks at the Harvard Arab Weekend
This past November, Dr. Najib Hourani was invited to participate in the Harvard Arab Weekend on a panel sponsored by the Graduate School of Design. The annual event brings together notable academics, political figures, business leaders and diplomats to discuss the pressing issues facing the Arab world. The panel on which Hourani spoke, entitled Reconstruction […]
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Lisa Bright Wins SCA Outstanding Student Paper Competition
Graduate student Lisa Bright was awarded the Society for California Archaeology Student Paper Competition in March (2016) for her paper titled “Differentiating Hospital Interred Individuals from the Larger Cemetery Population: The Curious Case of SCVMC’s Buttons.” She drew on data from 2012-2014 excavations of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Historic cemetery (circa 1875-1935), which included 1,004 […]
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Open Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Archaeology
The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University invites applications for a one- year position in historical archaeology, with the potential for a one-year renewal. Areas of specialization are open, although we are particularly interested in candidates with an active research program focused on the Early Historical Period of mid-continental North America. The successful candidate […]
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GSA organizes water drive for Flint residents
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GSA: We have all heard about the water crisis happening in Flint. Please consider donating bottled water in any size or quantity. The state says groups are accepting full cases of commercially packaged water (no loose bottles) and commercially sealed gallon containers of water. Not accepted are canned water, carbonated water, flavored water. Your donations […]
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Julie Fleischman Receives Grant for Humanitarian Forensics Project
Julie Fleischman, PhD Candidate, has received funding from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center to oversee a new osteological project at Krang Ta Chan (a former Khmer Rouge security center and mass gravesite in Takeo Province). The funded research will be conducted by Mr. Veon Vuthy, Director of the […]
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Fall 2015 Newsletter
The Department of Anthropology is proud to present the newest edition of the biannual newsletter. Our Fall 2015 issue features these articles: Fall 2015 Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman LEADR Completes a Successful First Year Update: The Institute for Digital Archaeological Method & Practice Dr. Joseph T. Hefner Receives Major Grant Jessica Yann receives […]
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Recent Graduate Students Awards
Julie Fleischman was awarded a Fulbright IIE to conduct her dissertation research on Khmer Rouge regime violence by analyzing skeletal trauma and memorialization in Cambodia. Mari Isa was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate the relationship between developmental changes in bone structure and the expression of long bone fracture. Sabrina Perlman […]