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Dr. Ethan Watrall and Dr. Lynne Goldstein featured in MSU Today for MSU.seum app
MSU Today featured an article about the collaboratively created mobile application MSU.seum that was created by MSU Anthropology professors Dr. Ethan Watrall and Dr. Lynne Goldstein. The free mobile app allows you to explore the archaeology and heritage of the university’s campus, and uses geopositioning to identify the user’s location. For example, if the user was between Linton Hall and MSU Museum, the app would point them to Saints’ Rest, the first dorm on campus. They would learn about the history of this building and the archaeological work that was done there as well. The original design of the app…
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Mindy Morgan to Speak at School for Advanced Research
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mindy Morgan, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, will be delivering a public talk on July 10 at the School for Advanced Research. Dr. Morgan’s talk “Anthropologists at Work: The Production and Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge in Indians at Work, 1933–1945” explores the ways in which anthropological expertise was produced in Indians at Work, a magazine published by the Office of Indian Affairs from 1933–1945. From the the SAR website: “Anthropologists at Work” explores the ways in which anthropological expertise was produced in Indians at Work, a magazine published by the Office of Indian…
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Department of Anthropology PhD Student Emily Niespodziewanski Receives JPAC Fellowship
Physical anthropology graduate student Emily Niespodziewanski has been accepted as a fellow for the 2013 Forensic Science Academy held by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC-CIL) at Hickam Joint Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. This marks the sixth year of the Forensic Science Academy, a four-month fellowship during which fellows are in residence at the CIL and receive specialized training in forensic anthropology, archaeology, and lab techniques. Fellows also participate in a 35-day field mission to East Asia to aid in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel. Emily will be at the CIL from August to December…
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Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship
Recent PhD Carolyn Hurst was awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Scholarship from the Kerley Foundation in February 2013. “The Ellis R. Kerley Forensic Sciences Foundation was established in 2000 in memory of Ellis R. Kerley Ph.D., Forensic Anthropologist (1924-1998). Ellis R. Kerley, one of the leading anthropologists, was a pioneer force in the creation of Forensic Anthropology. The Foundation, a charitable organization, is dedicated to furthering the development of forensic anthropology by assisting students in the field of anthropology and continuing the research in forensic identification of the skeleton” (http://kerleyfoundation.org/about-us/). This scholarship is awarded based on character, personal and academic merit and commitment. Merit is demonstrated through…
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Newly Launched Praxis Network Includes MSU Anthropology’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network, a new partnership of graduate and undergraduate programs that emphasize innovative models of methodological training and collaborative research. Part of the Mellon funded Scholarly Communication Institute’s current work on rethinking graduate education the Praxis Network provides a closer look at selected programs that have taken unusual and effective approaches to core humanistic and social scientific methods, while also addressing how best to equip budding scholar-practitioners for a range of careers. The goals of each unique program are student-focused, digitally-inflected, interdisciplinary, and frequently oriented around collaborative projects. In addition to the Anthropology…
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Sabrina Perlman Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Sabrina Perlman, ANP graduate student, has won the Rita S. Gallin award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen). Her award-winning paper is entitled “Native American Women and Diabetes: Voices in Suffering and Solutions.”
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Professor Emeritus Dr. Charles E. Cleland receives 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference Distinguished Career Award
Professor Emeritus Dr. Charles E. Cleland received the 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference Distinguished Career Award http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/distinguished-career-award/ from outgoing President George Milner at the Annual Business Meeting. Last year’s recipient was Department of Anthropology Professor, Dr. William A. Lovis.
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Andy Upton (ANP Graduate Student) on winning 2nd place in the Annual Student Paper Competition at the 2012 Midwest Archaeological Conference
Congratulations to Andy Upton (Department of Anthropology PhD Student) who was awarded 2nd place in the Annual Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled: “Preliminary Testing of the Efficacy of Shell Tempering as a Proto-Hominy Processor.”
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Sylvia Deskaj Receives AIA Graduate Student Travel Award
Sylvia Deskaj (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded an Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Award. Sylvia will give a paper presentation at the 2013 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) Joint Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. She will present a paper (co-authored by Dr. Anastasia Papathanasiou, Greek Ministry of Culture) entitled “Spatial Analysis of the Neolithic Mortuary Landscape at Alepotrypa Cave, Greece” in the session entitled “Mani: The DIROS Project and Alepotrypa Cave.” Last summer, Sylvia began work on the DIROS project in Greece, focusing on the massive Neolithic cave complex called Alepotrypa (Fox…
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PhD Candidate Terry Brock Launches “All of Us Will Walk Together” Digital Project
Although most people think of 17th-century archaeology when they think of St. Mary’s City, its space contains many more stories from later eras. One is the 19th-century story of slavery and freedom at a large slave plantation. This story is being told on a digital exhibit and blog, All of Us Will Walk Together (www.stmaryscity.org/walktogether), published by MSU Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Terry Peterkin Brock. Support for the project has been generously provided by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Ford Foundation, and the SRI Foundation. Brock is studying the lives of the slaves and tenant farmers who live at the St. Mary’s…