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Grad Student Mari Isa Receives NSF Fellowship
Mari Isa is a graduate student analyzing skeletal trauma, and a recent recipient of an NSF fellowship. Below, she shares more about her work: I started at MSU as an undergraduate. That fall, I took my first anthropology class, Biocultural Evolution, and began working in the Nubian Bioarchaeology Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Todd […]
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Alumnae Dr. Keri Brondo Releases New Textbook
Dr. Keri Vacanti Brondo (Ph.D. 2006), Associate Professor at University of Memphis, just released a new introductory text, “Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings” through Oxford University Press. This reader offers a flexible and applied approach for teaching undergraduates. When Oxford Press approached her, Dr. Brondo realized it was an opportunity to create her […]
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Undergrad Lucy Steele Attends G200 Youth Summit
This past Spring, the department was pleased to sponsor undergraduate Lucy Steele’s attendance at the G200 Youth Summit. Lucy shares more about her experience below: Last April, I proudly represented the Anthropology Department and Michigan State University at the G200 Youth Summit in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. This international conference provides a platform for students, academics, […]
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Featured Faculty: Dr. Laurie Medina
Since she became director in fall of 2015, Dr. Laurie Medina has been working with staff and affiliated faculty at MSU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) to build new research initiatives and to identify new opportunities for collaboration across campus and with partners abroad. During her first year as director, the center […]
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Introducing Kathy McGlynn, IT Support
When faculty, staff, and TAs find their computers are crashing or their AV equipment won’t link to their laptops, they call Kathy McGlynn, Anthropology’s IT expert. Kathy troubleshoots technical problems on all department software and hardware and keeps everyone’s systems up-to-date and safe from viruses. As the link between central MSU IT and the department, […]
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Grad Student Jessica Ott Receives Fulbright
Graduate student Jessica Ott received a 2016 Fullbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship to investigate legal advocacy and women’s rights in Tanzania. Starting in early 2017, she will begin dissertation research tracing the work of feminist lawyers in Zanzibar who draw on historical ideas about women’s and human rights in order to provide advocacy for […]
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Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman
Some of our biggest department news this Fall Semester is college news – we have a new Dean of the College of Social Science. Dr. Rachel Croson, formerly Dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington, became Dean of our college August 1, 2016. Dr. Croson has served as Director […]
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Grad Students Pursue Joint Degrees (D.O./Ph.D.)
Recent medical anthropology students in the department are opting to pursue both a DO degree and a PhD in Anthropology through the joint degree program offered with the College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). Students who apply to both COM and the department can pursue both degrees over a period of seven or eight years, following […]
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Open Faculty Position: Assistant Professor in Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Professor position. The appointment will begin August 16, 2017 and may be renewed annually based on the teaching needs of the department. The Department of Anthropology seeks a teaching professor focused on excellence in the anthropology classroom. This individual […]
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Grad Student Jessica Ott Receives Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Jessica Ott has been selected to receive a Fulbright-Hays DDRA for her research on women’s rights activism in Zanzibar. She is pictured here with a prominent activist, Fatma Alloo, in Zanzibar. Below is her project summary. Congratulations, Jessica! “Health rights for women’s rights: How Zanzibari feminist activists invoke the past to change the future for women” […]