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Dr. Lucero Radonic discusses water insecurity during American Association for the Advancement of Science panel
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Lucero Radonic was recently an invited panelist for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The title of the panel was “Household Water Insecurity in the Global North” which discussed setting a research agenda for studies of water insecurity. Dr. Radonic’s research focuses on the intersections of water rights and infrastructure, the science and micropolitics of climate change, and urbanization in Latin America and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Through her work, Dr. Radonic also seeks to expand the methods toolkit for social science research in human-environmental relations through engagement in interdisciplinary…
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Dr. Gabriel Wrobel co-authors article on genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Gabriel Wrobel recently co-authored an article in Quarternary International with several colleagues, including first author Dr. Sally Wasef (Griffith University) and Dr. Michael Westaway (The University of Queensland). The article is titled “A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, Queensland.” The article discusses currently available genomic data to explore whether the movement of cultural traits from New Guinea and/or the Torres Strait Islands into Cape York was accompanied by gene flow events between 8000 years ago and the colonial period. Read the full article…
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PhD candidate Anna Martínez-Hume wins Rita S. Gallin Award for Best Graduate Paper on Women and Gender in Global Perspective
The Department of Anthropology congratulates PhD candidate Anna Martínez-Hume, who recently received the Rita S. Gallin Award for Best Graduate Paper on Women and Gender in Global Perspective. Martínez-Hume’s paper is titled “I’ve lived it in my own flesh: Empowerment, Feminist Solidarity and NGO worker subjectivity in Maya, Guatemala.” This honor is among the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context 2021 Inspiration Awards, which are “given to woman-identified individuals who demonstrate integrity, leadership, quality performance, integrative and inclusive action, and influence on campus and in the community.” Martínez-Hume studies medical anthropology, neoliberalism and healthcare systems, policy discourse analysis, organizational…
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Associate Professor Stacey Camp co-authors new Introducing Archaeology textbook
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Stacey L. Camp is second author on the recently published textbook Introducing Archaeology (3rd edition, University of Toronto Press, 2020) with co-author Bob Muckle of Capilano University. Dr. Camp’s contributions to the book address contemporary issues in archaeology, such as archaeologists’ involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline, the archaeology of space junk, the archaeology of climate change, and attempts at making the discipline more accessible to people of all walks of life.
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Dr. Najib Hourani elected to the Editorial Board of the Middle East Research and Information Project
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Najib Hourani has been elected to the Editorial Board of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). The MERIP was established in 1971 to educate and inform the public about contemporary Middle East affairs. This organization publishes the Middle East Report, a widely read scholarly publication that provides analyses of current events and issues, as well as frequent articles, updates, and educational primers on its website. The MERIP “provides critical, alternative reporting and analysis, focusing on state power, political economy and social hierarchies as well as popular struggles and the role of U.S. policy…
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Undergraduate Reid Ellefson-Frank featured as Diversity Torch by College of Social Science on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Department of Anthropology undergraduate student Reid Ellefson-Frank was featured as the Diversity Torch in this month’s College of Social Science Diversity Matters recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27. International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the millions of Holocaust victims and enjoins individuals to promote programs to prevent further genocides. The College of Social Science Diversity Torches celebrate students who uphold a diversity value or ideal. As “Diversity Torches,” they provide light, guidance, and awareness to their fellow students and all who see them. Mr. Ellefson-Frank is a third-year College of Social Science undergraduate majoring in Anthropology, whose recent work on…
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Professor Emeritus William Lovis publishes NPS report on archaeological sites at Sleeping Bear Dunes
Department of Anthropology Professor Emeritus William Lovis recently published National Park Service, Midwest Archaeological Center, Technical Report 145 titled Site 20LU115, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: Synthesis of Archeological and Environmental Data Recovery. National Park Service (NPS) Technical Report 145, funded by the Cooperative Environmental Studies Unit of the NPS, compiles and synthesizes all of the known archaeological and related environmental information for archaeological sites at Sleeping Bear Point in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. This multidisciplinary research is coauthored with dune geomorphologist Dr. Alan Arbogast of the MSU Department of Geography, and the late Dr. G. William Monaghan, a…
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New article in The Conversation by Associate Professors Gabriel Wrobel and Stacey Camp on how archaeologists know where to dig
Department of Anthropology Associate Professors Gabriel Wrobel and Stacey Camp recently published a new article in The Conversation titled “How do archaeologists know where to dig?”. In the article, Drs. Wrobel and Camp discuss the evidence and methods used to find archaeological sites. Read the full article at https://theconversation.com/how-do-archaeologists-know-where-to-dig-147176
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PhD candidate Kelly Kamnikar and Dr. Joseph Hefner Co-PIs on AAFS HHRC grant to analyze skeletal remains from the Soviet-Era Terror in Georgia
Dr. Meri Gonashvili of the Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia, was awarded $20,000 by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center (HHRC) to support the project Anthropological Analysis of Victims of the Soviet-Era Terror in Georgia. Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) on the project include Michigan State University Department of Anthropology doctoral candidate, Kelly Kamnikar, Assistant Professor, Dr. Joseph Hefner, and Texas State University Professor, Dr. Nicholas Herrmann. The Co-PIs will travel to Tbilisi, Georgia to work under the direction of Dr. Gonashvili to excavate and analyze skeletal remains from the Soviet-Era Terror (1937–1938). The project has four…
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Dr. Kurt Rademaker co-authors article on precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the Peruvian Andes
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker recently co-authored an article in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology with members of his research team, including first author Dr. Fotios Alexandros Karakostis and Dr. Katerina Harvati of the University of Tübingen. The article is titled “Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes.” The article discusses evidence of habitual precision grasping tasks in an early high-altitude Andean individual excavated from the Cuncaicha rockshelter, which is one of the highest-altitude Pleistocene archaeological sites worldwide. Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24160 Abstract “Objectives: Cuncaicha, a…