The program summarizes the recovery of human remains associated with the unmarked, abandoned Second Ward Cemetery, also known as the Gruenhagen Cemetery or German Protestant Cemetery. The work was done as a result of the expansion associated with Guest House of Milwaukee, a non-profit shelter for homeless men. … Continue Reading »
UWM Anthropology faculty and students collaborate on an international publication
Tracey Heatherington co-edited a forum on “Anthropologists Witnessing and Reshaping the Neoliberal Academy” published in volume 5(1) of ANUAC, the journal of the national association of Italian cultural anthropologists.… Continue Reading »
Bettina Arnold presented two public lectures at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Professor Arnold presented two public lectures entitled “The Past on Tap: Feasts and Fermented Brews in Ancient Europe” at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Bacchus Uncorked program on July 15 and 16, 2017. … Continue Reading »
Bettina Arnold interviewed for French documentary film “The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb”
Bettina Arnold was interviewed for a documentary film “The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb“. The premiere showing at the Louvre in Paris on June 15, 2017 will be followed by a seven day broadcast on the French/German television channel ARTE beginning on June 17th.… Continue Reading »
MS student Alexandra Frankel accepts position in the American Anthropological Association publications office
Alexandra Frankel, a Spring 2017 cultural anthropology MS graduate, joined the American Anthropological Association in December 2016 as an editorial assistant.… Continue Reading »
Bettina Arnold invited speaker at international conference at Weltenburg Monastery in Bavaria, Germany
Sponsored by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, and organized by the University of Munich, 30 archaeologists, biochemists and paleobotanists gathered to present new research on the evidence for Celtic Iron Age feasting and drinking behavior.… Continue Reading »
Tarryl Janik receives the 2017 Ruggiero Field Research Award
Tarryl Janik received the 2017 Ruggiero Field Research Award to study the place of the jaguar in mean-making and the politics of survival and autonomy in Paramakatoi, Guyana.… Continue Reading »
MS student Amy Klemmer receives Tinker Award for research in Latin America
Amy Klemmer, will use the award to study past human responses to climate change in Ecuador during the summer of 2017. … Continue Reading »
Cheri Lynn Price, PhD student, awarded FLAS fellowship to study Mixtec language
Cheri Lynn Price, archaeology PhD student working with Jason Sherman, has been awarded one of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships.… Continue Reading »
PhD candidate Susan Hill’s book, Alternative Tourism in Budapest: Class, Culture, and Identity in a Postsocialist City, has been published
Susan Hill’s book, Alternative Tourism in Budapest: Class, Culture, and Identity in a Postsocialist City, has been published this month with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.… Continue Reading »