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Dr. Linda Hunt and Dr. Heather Howard Awarded NIH Grant
Dr. Linda Hunt and Dr. Heather Howard have been awarded a major National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to study the complex relationships between electronic health records, genomic concepts, clinical decision-making, and patient self-perception. Their study is designed to: 1) Examine how clinicians integrate genomic concepts with their existing understandings of racial identity, risk and responsibility, 2) Understand how patients interpret these complex concepts, and 3) Examine how electronic health records systems may promote concepts of biological racial/ethnic difference, and the consequences of these practices for individual clinicians and patients. The focus of the study will be diabetes management clinics…
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New Book Co-Edited by Dr. Najib Hourani and Dr. Edward Murphy – The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the release of the new book The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities and Contingencies in the Modern City Co-edited by Dr. Najib Hourani (Anthropology) and Dr. Edward Murphy (MSU Department of History), the book is publishing by Ashgate Publishing. The volume explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, governance, and justice in the modern city. The volume analyzes the ways in which homeownership and other types of housing tenure embody suppositions about the proper nature of the urban order, such as the rights of citizenship, ideologies of the nation, and forms…
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Latest Issue of the Department of Anthropology Newsletter – Spring, 2013
Our latest issue of the Department of Anthropology Newsletter (Spring, 2013) is out! Be sure to check out the latest news!
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Recent graduate Nick Passalacqua (Ph.D., 2012) was awarded J. Lawrence Angel Award
Recent graduate Nick Passalacqua (Ph.D., 2012) was awarded the J. Lawrence Angel Award from the Physical Anthropology section, along with his co-author Kyle McCormick. The J. Lawrence Angel award is presented for the best student paper from the prior year’s meetings . Passalacqua and McMormick’s winning paper, presented at the 2012 meeting, was titled, “A Comparison of Age-Related Macroscopic Traits of the Ilium and Sacrum.” The award was conferred at the Physical Anthropology section business meeting at the 2013 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Graduate student Julie Fleischman and recent graduate Cate Bird (PhD, 2013) were awarded Student Travel Grants by the Forensic Sciences Foundation
Graduate student Julie Fleischman and recent graduate Cate Bird (PhD, 2013) were awarded Student Travel Grants by the Forensic Sciences Foundation. Travel grants are awarded to assist with travel expenses in attending the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting. Both students received their grants to travel to and present at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Washington, DC in February 2013. Cate Bird’s presentation was entitled, “Skeletal Trauma in the Tuskulenai Case: A Comparison of State-Sponsored Violence in the Former Soviet Union.” Julie Fleischman’s presentation was entitled, “Down to the Wire: Radiographic Positive Identification Using Midline Sternotomy Wires” and was co-authored by…
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Fall 2012 – Newsletter
Great news – The Fall 2012 issue of the Department of Anthropology’s newsletter is out!
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Department Involvement in Major Conferences – 2012
72nd Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA) -Baltimore, MD; March 27 – 31, 2012 Emily Altimare, graduate student, gave the following paper presentation: “Living and Learning: Exploring Education in a Residential College Setting.” Dr. Keri Brondo (ANP alum) gave the following paper presentation: “A Vacation of Mud, Blood, and Sweat: Voluntouring to Save the Swamper (PESO)” and co-authored the following paper: “Urban Danger”: Greenlines, Greenways, and Cycling Lanes in Memphis, TN.” Seven Bryant, Ph.D. Candidate, presented the following paper: “Entering the Fight: The Research of Dog Fighting.” Dr. Andrea Freidus (ANP alum) co-authored the following paper presentation: “An Internal Brain…
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Najib Hourani
As an Assistant Professor appointed in Anthropology and the graduate Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP), Najib Hourani’s research and teaching reflects the commitment of both the College of Social Science and the Department of Anthropology to furthering interdisciplinary research at MSU. Trained in Middle East Politics (PhD NYU, 2005), and having taught History at Fordham University and International Affairs at the New School, Dr. Hourani engages in historically-anchored research that addresses the larger questions anthropologists today ask concerning the formation and transformation of cities, states and economies in post-colonial settings. “I feel lucky to work and teach at MSU,” Hourani…
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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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MSU Scientists Identify Brucellosis in Ancient Skeletal Remains
For the first time, researchers have found brucellosis in ancient skeletal remains. In collaboration with Albanian archaeologists at the site of Butrint, MSU Anthropology’s Dr. Todd Fenton confirmed the presence of this infectious disease in medieval bones. Brucellosis, still a problem in modern Mediterranean countries, presents very similar skeletal pathology to tuberculosis, but DNA samples analyzed by Dr. David Foran of MSU Criminal Justice determined that the skeletal damage was instead caused by brucellosis. Their findings were published in the February 2012 volume of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.” MSU News Report: http://research.msu.edu/stories/msu-scientists-crack-medieval-bone-code