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Meenakshi Narayan receives College of Social Science Research Scholars Fellowship
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to inform that Meenakshi Narayan, a third-year graduate student of the Department is a three-year College of Social Science Research Scholars Fellowship awardee (2013 – 2015). Through receiving this award, Meenakshi has successfully carried out two years of summer research in India, including her pre-dissertation research (2014) to
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Dr. Todd Fenton and Dr. Joseph Hefner Selected as Inaugural Members of a National Forensics Science Subcommittee
The first meeting of the OSAC Subcommittee on Anthropology took place in January 2015. Dr. Todd Fenton and Dr. Joseph Hefner were announced in October 2014 as two initial members of the National Institute of Justice and National Institute on Standards and Technology’s subcommittee on Anthropology. The Subcommittee on Anthropology is a subsection of Crime Scene/ Death Investigation and
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Watrall & Goldstein Receive Grant to Organize Institute on Digital Archaeology Method & Practice
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that, in collaboration with MATRIX: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences, Professors Watrall and Goldstein have received a $249,708 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize the Institute on Digital Archaeology Method & Practice Hosted
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Watrall receives NEH Grant for next phase of the Archaeological Resources Cataloging System (ARCS) Project
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Letter and the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, and MATRIX: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Ethan Watrall has received a $350,000 NEH Digital Implementation grant to continue the work on the Archaeological
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Syazana Amirulmokminin Documentary to Appear in Michigan Film Festival
We are very happy to announce that a short documentary film by Syazana Amirulmokminin, an undergraduate student in the Department of Anthropology, has been accepted into the Made in Michigan Film Festival. Entitled The New Generation, the film dives lives of two young Asian-American women and the unique challenges they face living between two cultures. Amirulmokminin produced the film
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Anthropology undergraduates among winners at 2014 MSU UURAF
Anthropology majors Kelsey Carpenter, Mari Isa, and Kyla Cools recently received honors for their research presentations at the annual MSU University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF), held at the MSU Student Union on April 4, 2014. Kelsey, Mari, and Kyla received First Place Awards in their respective sections within the Social Sciences division. Approximately 660
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Anthropology Graduate Student Participation at the Graduate Academic Conference
The 6th Annual Council of Graduate Students Graduate Academic Conference occurred on March 27th, 2014 at the Kellogg Center. The conference had over 150 graduate and professional students presenting at this year’s conference. Each presented in a format that conveyed complex disciplinary material to an educated but non-specialist audience, an important skill that should be developed
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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