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Ethan Watrall gives Keynote at Network Detroit Conference
Ethan Watrall (Assistant Professor; Director, Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, Associate Director, MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences) delivered the keynote for the Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice conference. Bringing together the universities and museums of Southeast Michigan, Network Detroit is a conference aimed at sharing and promoting cutting-edge digital work in the […]
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Dr. Ethan Watrall and Dr. Lynne Goldstein featured in MSU Today for MSU.seum app
MSU Today featured an article about the collaboratively created mobile application MSU.seum that was created by MSU Anthropology professors Dr. Ethan Watrall and Dr. Lynne Goldstein. The free mobile app allows you to explore the archaeology and heritage of the university’s campus, and uses geopositioning to identify the user’s location. For example, if the user […]
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Mindy Morgan to Speak at School for Advanced Research
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mindy Morgan, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, will be delivering a public talk on July 10 at the School for Advanced Research. Dr. Morgan’s talk “Anthropologists at Work: The Production and Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge in Indians at Work, 1933–1945” explores the ways in which anthropological expertise was […]
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Department of Anthropology PhD Student Emily Niespodziewanski Receives JPAC Fellowship
Physical anthropology graduate student Emily Niespodziewanski has been accepted as a fellow for the 2013 Forensic Science Academy held by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC-CIL) at Hickam Joint Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. This marks the sixth year of the Forensic Science Academy, a four-month fellowship during which fellows are in residence at the […]
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Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship
Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship from the Kerley Foundation in February 2013. “The Ellis R. Kerley Forensic Sciences Foundation was established in 2000 in memory of Ellis R. Kerley Ph.D., Forensic Anthropologist (1924-1998). Ellis R. Kerley, one of the leading anthropologists, was a pioneer force in the creation of Forensic Anthropology. The Foundation, a charitable […]
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Latest Issue of the Department of Anthropology Newsletter – Spring, 2013
Our latest issue of the Department of Anthropology Newsletter (Spring, 2013) is out! Be sure to check out the latest news!
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Recent graduate Nick Passalacqua (Ph.D., 2012) was awarded J. Lawrence Angel Award
Recent graduate Nick Passalacqua (Ph.D., 2012) was awarded the J. Lawrence Angel Award from the Physical Anthropology section, along with his co-author Kyle McCormick. The J. Lawrence Angel award is presented for the best student paper from the prior year’s meetings . Passalacqua and McMormick’s winning paper, presented at the 2012 meeting, was titled, “A Comparison of […]
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Graduate student Julie Fleischman and recent graduate Cate Bird (PhD, 2013) were awarded Student Travel Grants by the Forensic Sciences Foundation
Graduate student Julie Fleischman and recent graduate Cate Bird (PhD, 2013) were awarded Student Travel Grants by the Forensic Sciences Foundation. Travel grants are awarded to assist with travel expenses in attending the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting. Both students received their grants to travel to and present at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of […]
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Newly Launched Praxis Network Includes MSU Anthropology’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network, a new partnership of graduate and undergraduate programs that emphasize innovative models of methodological training and collaborative research. Part of the Mellon funded Scholarly Communication Institute’s current work on rethinking graduate education the Praxis Network provides a closer look at selected programs that have taken unusual […]
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Sabrina Perlman Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Sabrina Perlman, ANP graduate student, has won the Rita S. Gallin award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen). Her award-winning paper is entitled “Native American Women and Diabetes: Voices in Suffering and Solutions.”