• “ANP 464: Archaeology Field School” Receives Honorable Mention

    Dr. Lynne Goldstein and Terry Brock (PhD Candidate) received an honorable mention for the 2012 AT&T Faculty – Staff Award Competition in Instructional Technology.  They received this honorable mention for their development of ANP 464: Archaeology Field School, which aims to engage the public with archaeology.

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  • Sean Dunham is Recipient of Prestigious Award

    Sean Dunham (PhD Candidate) is the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Student Paper Award for the paper titled “Late Woodland Landscapes in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.” Sean was presented with this award at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, a national organization, in Memphis, TN on April 20th, 2012.  […]

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  • Undergraduate Students Present Research

    On Friday, April 13th, 2012, eight undergraduate students presented their research at the annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) at MSU.   James Schwaderer: “Project Point Color at Morton Village” (Winning Poster) – Advisor: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman Janine Baranski: “A Study of the Associations between Offspring Survival and Birth Order, Offspring Sex and Previous […]

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  • New Application Deadline for Morton Village Fieldschool (ANP464)

    The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that the application deadline for the Morton Village Fieldschool (ANP464) has been extended to April 27th. May 21 – July 1, 2012; Anthropology 464: Field Methods in Archaeology As in any archaeological field school, students learn through hands-on application of methods. Students are contributing members of the research team […]

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  • Tazin Karim awarded Disciplinary Leadership Endowment Fellowship from the Council of Graduate Students and the Graduate School

    Tazin Karim, doctoral candidate in medical anthropology, was recently awarded the Disciplinary Leadership Endowment Fellowship from the Council of Graduate Students and the Graduate School. This award recognizes her participation and demonstrated leadership in the field of anthropology including professional societies at the local, national and international levels. In particular, Taz was acknowledged for her […]

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  • PhD Candidate Adrianne Daggett Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

    The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that Adrianne Daggett (PhD Candidate) has just been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project titled “Early Iron Age Social and Economic Organization in Sowa Pan, Botswana.” Adrianne will conduct archaeological survey and excavation at two sites near the present-day village of Mosu in […]

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  • Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman infiltrates illegal organ trafficking market

    EAST LANSING, Mich. —  A Michigan State University anthropologist who spent more than a year infiltrating the black market for human kidneys has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking. Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in his native Bangladesh and found they […]

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  • Anthropology Grad Students Julie Fleischman & Nick Passalacqua Receive Awards at AAFS Conference

    Two anthropology graduate students were honored at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) February 21-25, 2012 in Atlanta, GA. Anthropology graduate student Julie Fleischman received the J. Lawrence Angel award from the Physical Anthropology section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences for her paper “An Evaluation of the Chen et al. Pubic Aging Method on […]

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  • Professor Emeritus Iwao Ishino Passes Away

    The Department of Anthropology is saddened to report that Professor Emeritus Iwao Ishino, former chair of the Department of Anthropology, passed away on Tuesday, February 28th at the age 90.  A memorial reception will be held at the MSU University Club at 2:30 pm on Friday March 2.

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  • PhD Candidate Tazin Karim Awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

    The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that Tazin Karim, doctoral candidate in the medical anthropology program, was recently awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This grant will fund her ongoing project which looks at the circulation and use of ADHD medications among US college students. Studies […]

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