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.
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.
Bettina Arnold, Josh Driscoll and Chad Sheridan, Lakefront Brewery’s Lead Cellarman, were featured in a Lake Effect interview with WUWM’s Bonnie North.
Professor Bettina Arnold has been appointed to a four year term on the Editorial Board of American Anthropologist, the academic journal of the American Anthropological Association.
Guest Tracey Heatherington, associate professor of Anthropology, has spent the past several years studying the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located on a remote Norwegian island above the arctic Circle.
Richard Edwards, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Jeske, will investigate the relationship between subsistence strategies and the development of cultural complexity among early Oneota agricultural populations in Wisconsin.
Professor Campbell will attend the NSF-Sponsored short course in research methods in Gainesville, Florida to be held July 25-29, 2016.
For the last few years, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been the focus of UWM anthropologist Tracey Heatherington’s research. She’s studying not only how people collaborate across the globe, but also science in the making. Read the entire story in “Studying the roots of the Seed Vault.”
Professor Wood’s activities will be focused on emerging directions in material culture studies and the use of museum collections for anthropological research and the development of museum anthropology curriculum.
Prof. Heatherington in her guest blog post tells us about her recent experiences amidst a large and global community working towards conserving and using plant genetic resources for food security and adaptation to climate change.