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Anthropology Professor Chantal Tetreault Published Article in Language and Communication
We are very pleased to announce that an article by Dr Chantal Tetreault, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been published in Language and Culture (vol 33). Entitled “Cultural Citizenship in France and le Bled among Teens of Pan-southern Immigrant Heritage,” the article addresses discourse among French teenagers of pan-immigrant, peripheral, and specifically southern descent that evokes the […]
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MSU Anthropology Major Mariyam Isa Awarded Ellis R. Kerley Award
At the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Seattle in February 2014, the Ellis R. Kerley Foundation announced MSU anthropology major Mariyam (Mari) Isa as the youngest ever winner of the Ellis R. Kerley award. The Kerley Award recognizes “the paper or poster which best demonstrates originality, creativity, depth of research, innovation, […]
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Department of Anthropology Announces 2014 Fieldwork Photo Contest Winners
The Department of Anthropology is very happy to announce the winners of the 2014 Fieldwork Photo Contest. The Fieldwork Photo Contest is intended to spread the message about the department and anthropology in general through the fieldwork photographs of faculty, students, and alumni. This year’s Fieldwork Photo Contest is particularly exciting because all of the […]
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Talus Released on Android
The Department of Anthropology is very happy to announce that the native Android version of Talus is now available for free from the Google Play Store. Created originally as a mobile website by Emily Niespodziewanski (PhD student in the MSU Department of Anthropology) as part of her Cultural Heritage Informatics Grad Fellowship, Talus aggregates dozens of the most commonly used bioprofiling methodologies […]
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Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia wins SfAA Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Competition
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that PhD Candidate Fredy Rodriquez-Mejia has won the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “Exploring New Paths Toward Indigenous Identity Formation: Heritage Teaching among the Ch’orti’ Maya of Copan, Honduras.” Co-Authored with Kristin Landau (archaeologist, Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University), the paper discusses […]
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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 […]