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Campus Archaeology Program Featured on MSU Today
The Campus Archaeology Program was recently featured in MSU Today. The article and video (below) explored their excavations of Station Terrace as part of the program’s summer fieldschool. To read the full article, go to http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/digging-deep-msu-campus-archaeology-uncovers-history/
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Dr. Goldstein recognized at SAA meeting for task force achievements
The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University would like to announce and congratulate Dr. Lynne Goldstein on her recent awards from the Society for American Archaeology at their 82nd Annual Meeting in Vancouver. Dr. Goldstein was awarded two Presidential Recognition Awards for her work on two, separate task forces. The first task force, Recognizing Gender Disparities in Archaeological Grant Writing, was honored for adding a major contribution to the profession of archaeology, directors of funding agencies, academic reviewers, and the Society for American Archaeology by coalescing successful funding strategies for women and statistically demonstrating of the variance of success…
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Campus Archaeology wins 2017 Governor’s Awards for Historic Preservation
Governor Rick Snyder and Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) Executive Director Earl Poleski have announced the MSU’s Campus Archaeology program as one of the winners of the 2017 Governor’s Awards for Historic Preservation. The award recognizes people and organizations who preserve Michigan’s vital historic and cultural resources and is awarded with a ceremony in the month of May, which is National Historic Preservation Month. Campus Archaeology combines the efforts of the Department of Anthropology and Department of Infrastructure Planning and Facilities to conducts site surveys anytime ground is disturbed throughout MSU’s expansive campus. Through excavation, monitoring, and historic research, which includes…
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Rebecca K. Albert wins Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award from SAA/IFR
Undergraduate student Becca Albert (advised by Dr. William Lovis) was honored at the 2017 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting for her paper on pre-contact maize in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Becca was awarded the “Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award” jointly by the Institute for Field Research (IFR) and the SAA. This award, which includes a 1,000 cash prize, acknowledges exceptional scholarly work among undergraduate archaeology students. In Becca’s case, the award committee wrote that “[Rebecca’s paper] employs a methodologically rigorous microbotanical analysis to demonstrate that carbonized residue on pottery from the Winter Site, AMS dated to 100 cal B.C., contains maize…
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Adjunct Feature: Dr. Heather Walder
Heather Walder is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology for 2016-2017. She recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and her dissertation investigated intercultural interaction and colonial encounters across the Upper Great Lakes region of North America. She has extensive teaching, research, and cultural resource management experience in the Midwest, and she most recently worked for the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her interest in archaeology first took root during her undergraduate field school excavating a 9th century AD town site in the Czech Republic, where she learned that she…
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Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate Professor in Archaeology (Director, Campus Archaeology Program)
Michigan State University Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure system position in archaeology at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The appointment will begin August 16, 2017. We seek an anthropological archaeologist who has experience in public archaeology and heritage studies, and will be responsible for directing the MSU Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) (http://campusarch.msu.edu), which is centered on the MSU campus and largely focused on historic period (AD 1855-1955) sites. The candidate must also demonstrate a commitment to an active and dynamic research agenda that will be pursued in addition to or in conjunction with CAP. Candidates must…
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Dr. Masako Fujita Receives NSF Grant for Research on Breastmilk
Dr. Masako Fujita received a National Science Foundation grant of $120,000 to fund her project, “Breastmilk antibody and micronutrient in association with maternal nutrition and infant sex in a polygynous Ariaal society of rural Kenya.” The project will be conducted in Fujita’s Biomarker Laboratory for Anthropological Research at MSU. The project will analyze milk samples from a polygynous population from Kenya. The milk specimens were originally collected as part of another NSF-funded research collaboration between Dr. Fujita, then a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington and the Center for Public Health Research, and Kenya Medical Research Institute. In the current…
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Bruker Industries XRF Training Workshop at MSU
On September 7th and 8th the Department of Anthropology hosted an X Ray Florescence (XRF) training workshop by Dr. Bruce Kaiser and Mr. Zach Dismukes of Bruker Industries. The workshop was attended by 22 faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students from the Departments of Anthropology, Geology, and Forestry at MSU. Dr. Kaiser reviewed the basics of elemental analysis using XRF. The Departments of Anthropology and Geology obtained a handheld Bruker XRF Tracer with funds provided by a Teaching and Learning Enhancement (TLE) award from the Office of the Provost to Dr. Bill Lovis and Dr. Tyrone Rooney. It is being used for…
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Department of Anthropology to Host Distinguished Antiquities Trafficking Scholar, Dr. Donna Yates
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announced that it will be hosting Dr. Donna Yates from October 24th to 28th. Yates is a Lecturer in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime at the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. An archaeologist by training, she is based out of a criminology department and is one of the founding members of the Trafficking Culture research consortium which conducts evidence-based inquiry into the global illicit trafficking of cultural objects. Her research broadly focuses on social aspects of antiquities trafficking, art crime, and related cultural property issues. Yates has recently…
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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…