News & Events
Dawa Lokyitsang's (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) panel "Theoretical Storytelling across North American and Asia in Settler Colonial Times," at the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto was a great success. The panel showcased the
Our Cultural Anthropology graduate students took the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto by storm. See below for a sampling of their the passion, dedication, and innovation. Lauren Barrett presented her innovative work on Colorado’s energy
Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defends his PhD Qualifying Exam.
Jacob Jansen (MA Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Queens of Inferno: A Political Apicology of Malta’s Beekeeping Conflicts."
Professor Nancy Steven's co-authored article, "Living at the edge: home range patterns of the Buraiga Chimpanzee Community, Kibale National Park, Uganda," has been published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The article represents the first
Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) granted a National Science Foundation Subsidy through the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This NSF subsidy allows Kelsey to
Dawa Lokyitsang successfully defended her PhD thesis "Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community." Her committee members are Professor Carole McGranahan (advisor) and Professors Clint Carroll, Kate Goldfarb,
Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society Student Paper Competition for her paper, “Lost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska
Professor Sharon Dewitte and her colleague Amanda Wissler's (McMaster University) co-authored article "Frailty and survival in the 1918 influenza pandemic," published in PNAS Journal and featured in the Colorado Sun. The article examines
PhD student Page McClean successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Conectividades: Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile's Southern Highway." Her committee members were Carole McGranahan, Advisor, Donna Goldstein