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Barbara Rose Johnston selected to deliver Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture
Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston, Adjunct faculty member, was selected to deliver the Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) this past spring (2016). The SfAA honors the memory of Michael Kearney by selecting an outstanding contemporary scholar to present on a topic relevant to the three themes central in his work: migration, human rights, and transnationalism. Dr. Johnston delivered the distinguished lecture titled, “Climate Change, Migration, and Biocultural Diversity – Emerging Trends, D/volutionary Tipping Points?” Dr. Johnston was also recognized by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) at the annual meeting this past November as co-winner of the 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy Award…
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Dr. Anne Ferguson Selected as Co-recipient of the 2016 Beverwyk Award
Dr. Anne Ferguson and Dr. Lisa Fine (History) will be honored at the 2016 Lavender Reception and Mosaic Awards as recipients of the 2016 Beverwyk Award. The two professors are Co-Directors of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) and were instrumental in the creation of the LBGTQ+ Studies minor, which became available in 2015. Deanna Hurlbert, Director of the LBGT Resource Center, writes: “Lisa and Anne have been relentless advocates for sexuality and gender scholarship at Michigan State University and demonstrated brilliant administrative leadership as the architects of LGBTQ+ Studies. As of this school year, 68 students are working towards earning…
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Kathryn Meyers Emery Awarded Excellence-in-Teaching Citation & Other Awards
Kathryn Meyers Emery was recently awarded one of the highest honors a graduate student at Michigan State University can receive, the Excellence-in-Teaching Citation, presented at the All-University Awards Convocation on February 9, 2016. She was given this award for both her formal and informal teaching of students in a variety of contexts, including Introduction to Archaeology (ANP 203), the Campus Archaeology Field School, and her Graduate School boot camps on digital identity development. In a passage from her nomination, written by Dr. Lynne Goldstein, Meyers Emery was described as “enthusiastic about archaeology, well versed in digital scholarship, and passionate about…
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2016 Winners of the Annual Fieldwork Photography Contest
First place: “Layene religious ceremony” by Emily Riley. Yoff-Layene, Senegal. 2014 Second place: “Vietnamese Boats” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Third place: “Peruvian Dyes” by Nicole Williams. Chinchero, Peru. Honorable Mention: “The Duck Delivery” by Edward Glayzer. Hue, Vietnam. 2012 Honorable Mention: “Wedding Blessing” by Emily Riley. Bambey, Senegal. 2014 Honorable Mention: “Transept with high contrast marble stripes” by Emily Streetman. Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy. 2015 This article appears in our Spring 2016 newsletter. Read the entire newsletter here.
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Dr. Najib Hourani Speaks at the Harvard Arab Weekend
This past November, Dr. Najib Hourani was invited to participate in the Harvard Arab Weekend on a panel sponsored by the Graduate School of Design. The annual event brings together notable academics, political figures, business leaders and diplomats to discuss the pressing issues facing the Arab world. The panel on which Hourani spoke, entitled Reconstruction and Identity, addressed an audience deeply worried that the reconstruction of Syria, Libya and Yemen may play out as yet another instance of ‘disaster capitalism,’ in which reconstruction is seen by elites and multinational corporations as a window of opportunity for neoliberal reform and private…
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Lisa Bright Wins SCA Outstanding Student Paper Competition
Graduate student Lisa Bright was awarded the Society for California Archaeology Student Paper Competition in March (2016) for her paper titled “Differentiating Hospital Interred Individuals from the Larger Cemetery Population: The Curious Case of SCVMC’s Buttons.” She drew on data from 2012-2014 excavations of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Historic cemetery (circa 1875-1935), which included 1,004 individuals. Her project centered on the separation of hospital direct interred individuals from individuals buried from the larger community via artifact and spatial analysis using the presence and absence of specific buttons types and patterns. Individuals with the hospital gown button pattern trended toward clustering, and…
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GSA organizes water drive for Flint residents
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. Not accepted are canned water, carbonated water, flavored water. Your donations will be collected and taken to the Red Cross in Flint to assist residents in need. Donations will be solicited from January 28 – February 12, 2016. Please contact Amy Michael (michae76@msu.edu) or Susan Kooiman (kooimans@msu.edu) for more information or to arrange a pick up…
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Julie Fleischman Receives Grant for Humanitarian Forensics Project
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 will be conducted by Mr. Veon Vuthy, Director of the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory in Cambodia, and the Choeung Ek Osteology Laboratory Team. Vuthy has a strong desire to preserve the human remains at Krang Ta Chan to inform the younger Cambodian generations about their past, to memorialize the victims of such violence, and…
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MSU Anthropology Alumni Lead Award-winning Project in Archaeology and Tribal Consultation
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 of the Potawatomi, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, and Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc. received the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation. The State Historic Preservation Office at MSHDA initiated the award program in 2003 to recognize outstanding historic preservation achievements that reflect a commitment to the preservation of Michigan’s unique character and the…
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Dr. Lovis Awarded Grant for Synthetic Environmental Archaeological Research at Sleeping Bear Dunes
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 perspectives of environmental archaeology, dune geomorphology, and glacial landscape evolution to bear on a common problem. The grant, from the Midwest Archaeological Center, U.S. National Park Service, and the Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (CESU) is already in force and will run through early 2017. The award will fund multidisciplinary research synthesizing information from remote sensing,…