College of Social Science
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GSA: We have all heard about the water crisis happening in Flint. Please consider donating bottled water in any size or quantity. The state says groups are accepting full cases of commercially packaged water (no loose bottles) and commercially sealed gallon containers of water.
Julie Fleischman, PhD Candidate, has received funding from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center to oversee a new osteological project at Krang Ta Chan (a former Khmer Rouge security center and mass gravesite in Takeo Province). The funded research
The Department of Anthropology is proud to present the newest edition of the biannual newsletter. Our Fall 2015 issue features these articles: Fall 2015 Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman LEADR Completes a Successful First Year Update: The Institute for Digital Archaeological Method & Practice
In May, 2015 the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) with its partners, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band
William Lovis, with colleagues Alan Arbogast (MSU Geography), and G. William Monaghan (Indiana U/Indiana Geological Survey) have been awarded a $40,996 grant titled Synthesis of Landscape Evolution, Human Use, and Management of Site 20LU115, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. This research team brings the
Dr. Norman J. Sauer, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, was named Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) at the Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. This prestigious position is an honor for Dr. Sauer, and it places the MSU Department of Anthropology in the
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hefner has received a grant in the amount of $423,959 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to fund the project A Macromorphoscopic Databank: Establishing the Statistical Analysis of Macromorphoscopic Data in Forensic Anthropology. The two-year research project
Dr. Mara Leichtman announces the publication of her new book Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal. The book is available from Indiana University Press starting September 27, 2015. From the publisher’s website: Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two
This fall marks the one-year anniversary of LEADR (the Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research), a new joint initiative among Anthropology, History, and MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. LEADR functions an interdisciplinary classroom, digital resource library, and a
Dr. Chantal Tetreault announces the publication of her new book Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cités, available from Wiley-Blackwell starting May of 2015. From the publisher’s website: Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cités, that