New Book by Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Drexler: Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia

Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Drexler announces the publication of her new book, Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia, available now from Cornell University Press. From the publisher’s website: In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and Read More

Department of Anthropology Ph.D Candidate Jeff Burnett Awarded Wenner-Gren

Department of Anthropology Ph.D candidate Jeff Burnett has been awarded the Wenner-Gren Enagaged Research Grant for his proposal titled “Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Archaeology Project”. For this project Jeffrey will be conducting a landscape study that utilizes archaeological methods, archival data, and oral histories and Read More

Department of Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Emily Milton publishes in Bioarchaeology International

Department of Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Emily Milton, along with co-authors Dr. Jordi Rivera Prince of Brown University and Ph.D. candidate Melina Seabrook of Harvard University, have published an article in Bioarchaeology International. The article is titled “Reconciling Identity Narratives: Creating Collaborative Space with Isotopic Baselines.” Read More

Alum Assistant Professor Mari Isa (Texas Tech University), Professor and Chair Todd Fenton, and Ph.D. candidates Alex Goots and Elena Watson publish in Forensic Science International

Lead author and MSU alum Dr. Mari Isa of Texas Tech University, Department of Anthropology Professor and Chair Todd Fenton, current MSU Anthropology Ph.D. candidates Alex Goots and Elena Watson, and engineering colleagues Patrick Vaughan and Dr. Feng Wei, have published a collaborative article titled Read More

Department of Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Rhian Dunn awarded 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Institute of Justice

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Ph. D. candidate Rhian Dunn is one of 24 doctoral students who have been awarded the 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency Read More

Associate Professor Dr. Mara Leichtman publishes in Ethnography

Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Dr. Mara Leichtman published an article in Ethnography, in part of a special journal issue titled “Transnational Giving: Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South.” The article title is “Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making Read More

Indigenous Graduate Student Collective offers support, programming centered around the Indigenous community

Michigan State is home to a diverse group of students from hundreds of different backgrounds and lifestyles, and nearly as many campus organizations exist to support these students. The MSU Indigenous Graduate Student Collective is one such group.  The Indigenous Graduate Student Collective is a Read More