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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.
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PhD Candidate Adrianne Daggett Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that Adrianne Daggett (PhD Candidate) has just been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project titled “Early Iron Age Social and Economic Organization in Sowa Pan, Botswana.” Adrianne will conduct archaeological survey and excavation at two sites near the present-day village of Mosu in northeastern Botswana. This project will investigate economic behavior and settlement organization patterns at these sites to understand the relationship between prehistoric farming settlements of this area and the emerging state-level societies of the time. The project will also investigate whether hunter-gatherers interacted with the Mosu…
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Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman infiltrates illegal organ trafficking market
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University anthropologist who spent more than a year infiltrating the black market for human kidneys has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking. Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in his native Bangladesh and found they typically didn’t get the money they were promised and were plagued with serious health problems that prevented them from working, shame and depression. The study, which appears in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Moniruzzaman’s decade-long research in the field describe a growing worldwide market for body parts…
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Anthropology Grad Students Julie Fleischman & Nick Passalacqua Receive Awards at AAFS Conference
Two anthropology graduate students were honored at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) February 21-25, 2012 in Atlanta, GA. Anthropology graduate student Julie Fleischman received the J. Lawrence Angel award from the Physical Anthropology section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences for her paper “An Evaluation of the Chen et al. Pubic Aging Method on a North American Sample.” The J. Lawrence Angel award is presented for the best student paper from the prior year’s meetings . Julie was also awarded an Acorn Grant by the Forensic Sciences Foundation (FSF) to support her proposal, “Radiographic Positive Identification Using Midline Sternotomy Wires: A Validation Study”.…
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Professor Emeritus Iwao Ishino Passes Away
The Department of Anthropology is saddened to report that Professor Emeritus Iwao Ishino, former chair of the Department of Anthropology, passed away on Tuesday, February 28th at the age 90. A memorial reception will be held at the MSU University Club at 2:30 pm on Friday March 2.
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PhD Candidate Tazin Karim Awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that Tazin Karim, doctoral candidate in the medical anthropology program, was recently awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This grant will fund her ongoing project which looks at the circulation and use of ADHD medications among US college students. Studies show that up to 35% of college students have illicitly taken a prescription stimulant such as Adderall or Vivance at some point during their college years. Taz’s research draws on interview and participant observation data to understand why this behavior is occurring and how is…
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MSU News Features “How to ‘Hack’ Grad School”
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Just six months after launching, a virtual forum started by a group of Michigan State University graduate students has become the first of its kind to contract with a leading higher-education publication. GradHacker.org was started by grad students Katy Meyers and Alex Galarza to help their cohorts “hack” grad school one blog post at a time. The blog is now an official partner of the higher-education publication, Inside Higher Ed. “There are university-based grad blogs and there are academic ones, but there wasn’t anything on a broad scale talking about grad school and the universal problems, solutions…
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The Detroit Free Press Features the Michigan State University Nubian Bioarchaeology Laboratory
The Detroit Free Press recently featured the Michigan State University Nubian Bioarchaeology Laboratory, which houses over 400 medieval Nubian skeletons on loan from the British Museum. A team of graduate students from MSU joined the archaeological excavation in Sudan before the completion of the Merowe Dam, which flooded the region. Graduate and undergraduate researchers, interns, and volunteers have a unique experience to study human remains from a population about which little is known. Recent PhD Angela Soler was the first to write her dissertation on the collection, and ABD student Carolyn Hurst is currently managing the lab to collect data for…