News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UWM Archaeological Field School: May 30-July 8, 2017

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.

Study Abroad: Peru Past & Present – Summer 2017

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

PhD student Josh Driscoll is quoted in BBC article on ancient ale in Britain

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

Alexandra Frankel wins 2nd prize in the ethnographic fiction contest

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 edit special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

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