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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 […]
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Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship
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
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
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
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
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.”