College of Social Science
Professor Emeritus Dr. William Lovis, an environmental archaeologist, coauthored an article in Quaternary Science Reviews with Alan Arbogast, Professor of MSU Spatial, Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Dr. Kevin McKeehan of the US Geological Survey, and the late Dr. G. William Monaghan of Indiana University and
Graduating Senior Melanie Pitt of Farmington Hills, Mich. has been chosen by the Department of Anthropology as this year’s Outstanding Senior. Pitt said she was elated and shocked when she heard the news. “It was very unexpected,” Pitt said. “I don’t tend to expect much
Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Heather Howard co-published a chapter in Michigan Salvage: Bonnie Jo Campbell and the American Midwest. “Indigeneity in Once Upon a River” and accompanying teaching activity, “What’s your Indigenous narrative?” In this chapter, Howard-Bobiwash examines transformations in the tropes of indigeneity
Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Masako Fujita recently coauthored Does the immune system of milk increase activity for infants experiencing infectious disease episodes in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania? which appears in the American Journal of Human Biology. Read the article here: Does the immune system of milk
Join The Department of Anthropology on April 24 from 12 – 2 p.m. for The 17th Annual Endowed Bernard Gallin Lecture in Asian Anthropology: Biometrics and Their Discontents in India: Surveillance Capitalism, Techno-utopianism, and Public Health on the Gendered Margin. The lecture will be held
Join the Department of Anthropology on April 7 from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. for Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire: Salvage Archaeology and Science in Mongolia. The lecture will be held in room C103 in McDonel Hall. Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/99146869800Passcode: ANP@MSUANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE SERIES Passcode: ANP@MSU
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Professor Emeritus Dr. William Lovis has been recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. Dr. Lovis was recognized as a fellow of the AAAS earlier this year, along
The Department of Anthropology encourages all archeology students to apply for The Alumni & Friends Fund for Archeology. This fund is intended to support MSU Department of Anthropology archaeology students who have demonstrated the capacity to achieve educational and professional goals, the motivation to achieve
The Department of Anthropology encourages all graduate students to apply for The William A. Lovis Research Fund in Environmental Archaeology. This fund is intended to support interdisciplinary environmental archaeological research bridging anthropological archaeology and the natural, physical, biological and earth sciences. It is designed to
The Lynne Goldstein Fellowship Fund is open to graduate students enrolled in the MSU Department of Anthropology, with preference given to those students who have participated in the Campus Archaeology Program. Funds are intended to assist students doing their dissertation research, which does not need