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.

Amy Klemmer, will use the award to study past human responses to climate change in Ecuador during the summer of 2017.

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.

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.

The UWM Archaeological Field School will return to the Crescent Bay Hunt Club for our 10th excavation season, and
to Koshkonong Creek Village for our 5th year of excavation. In addition to our excavations, we will conduct survey at several nearby sites along the northwest shore of Lake Koshkonong.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2017
For more information see …. Center for International Education’s Study Abroad Brochure

Read the BBC story “Why the Stone Age could be when Brits first brewed beer.” Congratulations Josh.

Congratulations to Master’s student Alexandra Frankel, who won 2nd prize in the ethnographic fiction contest, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology! The title of her short story is “Waiting for Firat.”

PhD candidates Lara Ghisleni and Alexis Jordan have edited a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

Bettina Arnold, Josh Driscoll and Chad Sheridan, Lakefront Brewery’s Lead Cellarman, were featured in a Lake Effect interview with WUWM’s Bonnie North.