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  • Department of Anthropology PhD Student Emily Niespodziewanski Receives JPAC Fellowship

    June 13, 2013

    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 […]

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  • Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship

    May 20, 2013

    Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship from the Kerley Foundation in February 2013. “The Ellis R. Kerley Forensic Sciences Foundation was established in 2000 in memory of Ellis R. Kerley Ph.D., Forensic Anthropologist (1924-1998). Ellis R. Kerley, one of the leading anthropologists, was a pioneer force in the creation of Forensic Anthropology. The Foundation, a charitable […]

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  • Newly Launched Praxis Network Includes MSU Anthropology’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

    March 20, 2013

    We are delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network, a new partnership of graduate and undergraduate programs that emphasize innovative models of methodological training and collaborative research. Part of the Mellon funded Scholarly Communication Institute’s current work on rethinking graduate education  the Praxis Network provides a closer look at selected programs that have taken unusual […]

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  • Sabrina Perlman Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award

    January 31, 2013

    Sabrina Perlman, ANP graduate student, has won the Rita S. Gallin award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen). Her award-winning paper is entitled “Native American Women and Diabetes: Voices in Suffering and Solutions.”

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  • Professor Emeritus Dr. Charles E. Cleland receives 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference Distinguished Career Award

    January 11, 2013

    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

    January 11, 2013

    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

    December 9, 2012

    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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  • PhD Candidate Terry Brock Launches “All of Us Will Walk Together” Digital Project

    October 11, 2012

    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

    October 10, 2012

    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

    September 18, 2012

    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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