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Professor Emeritus Dr. Charles E. Cleland receives 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference Distinguished Career Award
Professor Emeritus Dr. Charles E. Cleland received the 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference Distinguished Career Award http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/distinguished-career-award/ from outgoing President George Milner at the Annual Business Meeting. Last year’s recipient was Department of Anthropology Professor, Dr. William A. Lovis.
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Andy Upton (ANP Graduate Student) on winning 2nd place in the Annual Student Paper Competition at the 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference
Congratulations to Andy Upton (Department of Anthropology PhD Student) who was awarded 2nd place in the Annual Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled: “Preliminary Testing of the Efficacy of Shell Tempering as a Proto-Hominy Processor.”
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Sylvia Deskaj Receives AIA Graduate Student Travel Award
Sylvia Deskaj (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded an Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Award. Sylvia will give a paper presentation at the 2013 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) Joint Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. She will present a paper (co-authored by Dr. Anastasia Papathanasiou, Greek Ministry of […]
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Fall 2012 – Newsletter
Great news – The Fall 2012 issue of the Department of Anthropology’s newsletter is out!
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Department Involvement in Major Conferences – 2012
72nd Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA) -Baltimore, MD; March 27 – 31, 2012 Emily Altimare, graduate student, gave the following paper presentation: “Living and Learning: Exploring Education in a Residential College Setting.” Dr. Keri Brondo (ANP alum) gave the following paper presentation: “A Vacation of Mud, Blood, and Sweat: Voluntouring […]
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Najib Hourani
As an Assistant Professor appointed in Anthropology and the graduate Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP), Najib Hourani’s research and teaching reflects the commitment of both the College of Social Science and the Department of Anthropology to furthering interdisciplinary research at MSU. Trained in Middle East Politics (PhD NYU, 2005), and having taught History at Fordham […]
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PhD Candidate Terry Brock Launches “All of Us Will Walk Together” Digital Project
Although most people think of 17th-century archaeology when they think of St. Mary’s City, its space contains many more stories from later eras. One is the 19th-century story of slavery and freedom at a large slave plantation. This story is being told on a digital exhibit and blog, All of Us Will Walk Together (www.stmaryscity.org/walktogether), published by MSU Department […]
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New Book published by Dr William Lovis – The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes
The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes, the recently released book coauthored by Drs. William Lovis (MSU Anthropology), Alan Arbogast (MSU Geography), and G. William Monaghan (Indiana University), is the culmination of almost seven years of research and writing. Published in the Michigan Department of Transportation Environmental Series, edited by MSU alumnus James Robertson, and […]
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Anthropology PhD Student Meskerem Glegziabher awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that PhD Student Meskerem Glegziabher has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award Her research project is entitled “India Rising: Understanding Development, Gender and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Delhi’s Jhuggi Jhopris.” She will be conducting ethnographic and archival research in Delhi, India and will […]
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Anthropology PhD Student Emily Riley awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that PhD Student Emily Riley has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad. Emily’s research, entitled “The Fight Against Wastefulness’: Legal and Political Engagement in Senegal,” will investigate the legal and political efforts for social change in Senegal, specifically examining the history and current impacts of […]