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New Book published by Dr William Lovis – The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes
The Geoarchaeology of Lake Michigan Coastal Dunes, the recently released book coauthored by Drs. William Lovis (MSU Anthropology), Alan Arbogast (MSU Geography), and G. William Monaghan (Indiana University), is the culmination of almost seven years of research and writing. Published in the Michigan Department of Transportation Environmental Series, edited by MSU alumnus James Robertson, and produced by MSU Press, the volume explores the taphonomy and differential temporal and spatial preservation of archaeological sites in the Lake Michigan coastal dunes. The research employed innovative approaches to paleoenvironmental reconstruction focusing on the relationship between changing climate and the activation of coastal sand…
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Anthropology PhD Student Meskerem Glegziabher awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that PhD Student Meskerem Glegziabher has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award Her research project is entitled “India Rising: Understanding Development, Gender and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Delhi’s Jhuggi Jhopris.” She will be conducting ethnographic and archival research in Delhi, India and will examine contemporary development and women’s empowerment initiatives that target Delhi’s slums by government agencies and NGOs and examining how understandings and applications of broader notions of gender, identity, and belonging bear upon the structure of these development initiatives and how such understandings rest upon and…
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Anthropology PhD Student Emily Riley awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that PhD Student Emily Riley has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad. Emily’s research, entitled “The Fight Against Wastefulness’: Legal and Political Engagement in Senegal,” will investigate the legal and political efforts for social change in Senegal, specifically examining the history and current impacts of the law of 1967 that reprimands excessive spending for family ceremonies and subsequent campaigns to revive it. Emily will examine the state, religious, and non-governmental intersections regarding the law, and will then analyze them in relation to broader questions of economic development, gender relations, social…
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Department of Anthropology Sponsors Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Migration
The Department of Anthropology is happy to announce that it will be sponsoring Migration without Borders, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on migration at Michigan State University on October 5th & 6th. This conference aims to facilitate and foster an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional cohort of scholars interested in issues of migration and mobility. Panelists are scholars at various stage in their graduate careers, working on a plethora of thematic, conceptual, spatial, and temporal aspects of migration, from numerous disciplinary perspectives and regional backgrounds. Topics include the intersection of migration with health, youth, the state, gender, and development. Attendance at the conference is free…
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Dept of Anthropology Morton Village Archaeological Fieldschool Launches Blog
In order to document and communicate their ongoing research and outreach activities, the MSU Department of Anthropology Morton Village Archaeological Fieldschool in launching a blog this season. Located at mortonvillage.anthropology.msu.edu, the blog will feature regular posts and videos by fieldschool staff and students. Located in the central Illinois River Valley near Lewiston, Illinois, the Morton Village Site is a late prehistoric village. This cooperative project with the Illinois State Museum focuses on the A.D. 1300-1400 community associated with a period of social integration and conflict among Oneota and Mississippian groups.
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Terry Brock Receives Dissertation Research Grant
Congratulations to Terry Brock on being awarded an SRI Foundation Dissertation Research Grant for his research entitled: “We All Walked Together”: The Transition From Slavery to Freedom on a 19th century Maryland Plantation.
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“ANP 464: Archaeology Field School” Receives Honorable Mention
Dr. Lynne Goldstein and Terry Brock (PhD Candidate) received an honorable mention for the 2012 AT&T Faculty – Staff Award Competition in Instructional Technology. They received this honorable mention for their development of ANP 464: Archaeology Field School, which aims to engage the public with archaeology.
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Sean Dunham is Recipient of Prestigious Award
Sean Dunham (PhD Candidate) is the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Student Paper Award for the paper titled “Late Woodland Landscapes in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.” Sean was presented with this award at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, a national organization, in Memphis, TN on April 20th, 2012. This paper is part of Sean’s ongoing dissertation research that examines settlement and subsistence practices in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Undergraduate Students Present Research
On Friday, April 13th, 2012, eight undergraduate students presented their research at the annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) at MSU. James Schwaderer: “Project Point Color at Morton Village” (Winning Poster) – Advisor: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman Janine Baranski: “A Study of the Associations between Offspring Survival and Birth Order, Offspring Sex and Previous Siblings in Rural Communities of Kenya” – Advisor: Dr. Masako Fujita Kaitlin A. Scharra: “Understanding Non-Elite Mississippian Societies: A Mortuary Analysis of the East St. Louis Stone Quarry Site Cemetery” – Advisor: Dr. Lynne Goldstein Circe Wilson: “Using Ceramics to Understand MSUs Past” – Advisors:…
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Tazin Karim awarded Disciplinary Leadership Endowment Fellowship from the Council of Graduate Students and the Graduate School
Tazin Karim, doctoral candidate in medical anthropology, was recently awarded the Disciplinary Leadership Endowment Fellowship from the Council of Graduate Students and the Graduate School. This award recognizes her participation and demonstrated leadership in the field of anthropology including professional societies at the local, national and international levels. In particular, Taz was acknowledged for her involvement with the Society for Medical Anthropology and her role as chair of a special interest group on Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Research.