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Dr. Stacey Camp publishes in International Journal of Historical Archaeology on the future of Japanese diaspora archaeology
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Stacey Camp recently published an article in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology titled, “The Future of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology in the United States.” In the article, Dr. Camp discusses the need for collaborative work and a shared research agenda within the archaeological community studying the Japanese diaspora. Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00564-6 Abstract: “The emergence of the archaeology of the Japanese diaspora in the United States as a discrete area of investigation over the past 15 years presents a timely intervention into how xenophobia has contoured the lives of migrants. It is not…
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Special Interest Group co-chaired by Dr. Deon Claiborne receives AAA Presidents’ Award
The Society for Medical Anthropological’s Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group was one of this year’s recipients of the American Anthropological Association Presidents’ Award for the group’s extraordinary service. Dr. Deon Claiborne, Undergraduate Academic Advisor for the Department of Anthropology, is the co-chair of this group with Dr. Kristin Hedges of Grand Valley State University. The Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group was “recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in response to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, including a series of highly informative webinars, online background information resources, and an expanded roster of…
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Associate Professor Heather Howard publishes in American Anthropologist on history, truth, and reconciliation in settler health care
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Heather Howard recently published an article in American Anthropologist Vital Topics Forum titled “History, Truth, and Reconciliation in Settler Health Care.” The article critiques approaches used within biomedicine to Indigenous people’s health and advocates Indigenous-led health-care initiatives. Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13447
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Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker’s research featured in article by The Scientist on the peopling of South America
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker was recently featured in an article by The Scientist titled “The Peopling of South America.” The article describes new findings regarding South America’s earliest human inhabitants and highlights Dr. Rademaker’s research on the archaeological site of Cuncaicha, which is the oldest known site in the high Andes. Read the full article at: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/the-peopling-of-south-america-67860
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Dr. Stacey Camp Participates in Virtual Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimage
This summer, Dr. Stacey Camp is participating in Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage, which is a virtual pilgrimage to commemorate and remember Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the annual pilgrimages to WWII sites of Japanese American incarceration were cancelled this year. These pilgrimages provide important educational and community-building opportunities for descendants of the camps, the Japanese American community as a whole, and the wider public. Recognizing the profound significance of these pilgrimages, the National Park Service and the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP) are co-hosting this virtual pilgrimage in collaboration with numerous…
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New article in The Conversation co-authored by Associate Professor Gabriel Wrobel on epidemics in the archaeological record
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Dr. Gabriel Wrobel recently co-authored an article in The Conversation with colleagues Dr. Charlotte Roberts (Durham University) and Dr. Michael Westaway (The University of Queensland) titled, “What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history—and the human response to them.” The article discusses what bioarchaeologists can reveal about diseases in humanity’s past by analyzing human skeletal remains. Read the full article at: https://theconversation.com/what-the-archaeological-record-reveals-about-epidemics-throughout-history-and-the-human-response-to-them-138408
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Associate Professor Ethan Watrall co-authors article on the Enslaved Ontology in Journal of Web Semantics
Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Dr. Ethan Watrall recently co-authored an article in Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web with several colleagues, including first author Cogan Shimizu (Kansas State University), corresponding author Dr. Pascal Hitzler (Kansas State University), and fellow members of MATRIX: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. The article is titled “The enslaved ontology: Peoples of the historic slave trade” and presents the Enslaved Ontology (V1.0). The Enslaved Ontology is a modeling approach for the Enslaved: People of the Historical Slave Trade project, for which Dr. Watrall is a Co-Principal Investigator,…
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PhD candidates April Greenwood and Brian Geyer publish on photographic practices in rural Kenya and “relational objects” in CSCW/HCI
Department of Anthropology PhD candidates April Greenwood and Brian Geyer recently co-authored an article with Dr. Susan Wyche (MSU Department of Media and Information) in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction titled, “Exploring Photography in Rural Kenyan Households: Considering “Relational Objects” in CSCW and HCI.” The article discusses the photographic practices in rural households in Bungoma County, Kenya, and the concept of “relational objects” in computer-supported cooperative work/human-computer interaction research (CSCW/HCI). Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3392852 Abstract: “Domestic and personal photography are topics of longstanding interest to CSCW and HCI researchers. In this paper, we explore these topics…
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Dr. Gabriel Sanchez Awarded National Geographic Grant
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Gabriel Sanchez has been awarded a National Geographic Early Career Grant in support of his research project, “Archaeology as Conservation Science: Investigating the Historical Range of California’s Endangered Coho Salmon.” Dr. Sanchez joined the Department as a College of Social Science Dean’s Research Associate and specializes in Indigenous and environmental archaeology. Working through the lens of historical ecology, he studies ancient fisheries along the Pacific Coast of North America and how data from archaeological sites can inform contemporary resource management and conservation. The National Geographic Society funds “bold, innovative, and…
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Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker publishes in the journal Cell on reconstructing deep population history of the Andes
Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker co-authored a recently published article in the journal Cell with colleagues around the world, including first author Nathan Nakatsuka (Harvard-MIT) and senior authors David Reich (Harvard) and Lars Fehren-Schmitz (UCSC). The article is titled “A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes” and discusses the changes to the genetic landscape in the Central Andes over 9,000 years. The article also investigates the correlation between changes in population structure and archaeologically detected periods of cultural, political, and socioeconomic shifts. Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.015 Abstract: “There are many unanswered questions…