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MSU Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Dr. Kurt Rademaker and co-authors Dr. Richard Burger (Yale University), Eisei Tsurumi (University of Tokyo), Matthew Boulanger (Southern Methodist University), Véronique Bélisle (Millsaps College), and Michael D. Glascock (University of Missouri) report the discovery and geochemical characterization of a Read More

Each spring, the Graduate Students in Anthropology organization (GSA) hosts the GSA Annual Symposium. This year, the 6th installment of the GSA symposium was held as a virtual/in-person hybrid event on February 11, 2022. The GSA Annual Symposium is not only an exciting showcase of Read More

Message from the Chair: Dr. Todd Fenton MSU Forensic Anthropology Lab participates in Operation United College of Social Science Diversity Champion: Dr. Heather Howard MSU Alumnus Don Weir – The artifacts of a career devoted to archaeology Announcing Three New Anthropology Scholarships PhD Student Juan Read More

Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Heather Howard and doctoral student Livy Drexler have been awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation to carry out research for the project, “Special Education in Indian Country: Challenges and Insights from Applying Indigenous Models of Disability in Schools.” Indigenous Read More

Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Dr. Carolyn Isaac, doctoral student Clara Devota, and MSU Anthropology alumni Dr. Jered Cornelison and Erica Christensen, M.S., recently published an article in the International Journal of Legal Medicine entitled: “The Repository of Antemortem Injury Response (REPAIR): an online database for skeletal injuries Read More

Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Gabriel Wrobel recently published two co-authored articles in Ancient Mesoamerica as part of a special issue called “The Preceramic and Early Ceramic Periods in Belize and the Central Maya Lowlands.” Ancient Mesoamerica is a flagship journal for Mesoamerican archaeology published Read More

During the summer of 2021, the Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Lab (MSUFAL), moved from its longtime home in East Fee Hall to a new laboratory and teaching space in Giltner Hall. The move has been bittersweet, due to the history of groundbreaking research and Read More

MSU investigators Claire Margerison (Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Danielle Gartner (Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) and Heather Howard-Bobiwash (Department of Anthropology) were recently awarded a grant under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Policy Research to Advance Read More

Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Kurt Rademaker recently published an article in Quaternary International. The article is titled “Comprehensive mapping and compositional analysis of the Alca obsidian source, Peru.” The article discusses the extent and composition of the Alca obsidian source as well as behavioral Read More

 Doctoral student Sarah Meinekat working with other graduate students at the Cuncaicha rock shelter archaeological site. The intersection of archaeology and geology tells the story of human connection and interaction with the earth. What if we could go back in time to understand how people Read More