College of Social Science
The Institute for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice successfully held its second and final meeting at MSU this past August. Directed by Professors Ethan Watrall and Lynne Goldstein and generously supported by a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the goal
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
Heather Walder is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology for 2016-2017. She recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and her dissertation investigated intercultural interaction and colonial encounters across the Upper Great Lakes region of North America. She
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,
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,
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
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.
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
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
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