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Dr. Linda Hunt and Dr. Heather Howard Awarded NIH Grant
Dr. Linda Hunt and Dr. Heather Howard have been awarded a major National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to study the complex relationships between electronic health records, genomic concepts, clinical decision-making, and patient self-perception. Their study is designed to: 1) Examine how clinicians integrate genomic concepts with their existing understandings of racial identity, risk and […]
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New Book Co-Edited by Dr. Najib Hourani and Dr. Edward Murphy – The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the release of the new book The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities and Contingencies in the Modern City Co-edited by Dr. Najib Hourani (Anthropology) and Dr. Edward Murphy (MSU Department of History), the book is publishing by Ashgate Publishing. The volume explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding […]
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Department of Anthropology Featured in American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology TV
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that it was one of fourteen institutions featured on the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology TV. Launched at the 2013 AAA annual meeting in Chicago, the profile on the Department of Anthropology featured on Anthropology TV focused on our unique experiential learning opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate […]
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Department Alumna A.R. Vasavi Receives Prestigious Infosys Science Foundation Prize
Department of Anthropology Alumna A.R. Vasavi has been awarded the Infosys Science Foundation’s Prize in Social Sciences. Vasavi, who received her PhD in 1996, is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. As noted in the award announcement, Vasavi received the award for her distinctive and pioneering research that spans a remarkable range covering four main […]
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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 […]