News

Bettina Arnold and PhD Candidate Josh Driscoll appear on WUWM’s Lake Effect

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

Bettina Arnold appointed to the Editorial Board of American Anthropologist

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.

Monique Hassman receives award from Wisconsin Land Information Association

Graduate student Monique Hassman received one of four scholarships from the 2016 Damon Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Wisconsin Land Information Association Foundation.

Tracey Heatherington interviewed on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio

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.

Alexis Jordan awarded AIA’s Elizabeth Bartman Museum Internship Scholarship

Alexis Jordan, a PhD candidate in Anthropology, will use the Bartman grant to conduct archival research and commingled skeletal analyses on the remains from Harlyn Bay, the largest Iron Age cemetery in Cornwall.

Rachel McTavish receives Kohler Foundation Ruth Cohen Memorial Award

Graduate Student Rachel McTavish was awarded a Kohler Foundation Ruth Cohen Memorial Award to conduct isotope research on animal bone from sites excavated at Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin

Richard Edwards awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

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.

Alexandra Frankel accepts internship at the American Anthropological Association

Graduate student Alexandra Frankel is the new publishing intern at the AAA in Washington D.C.

Anika Yetunde Jones accepts tenure track position at Oakton Community College

Anika Yetunde Jones was hired as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology tenure track at Oakton Community College. Congratulations Anika!

Benjamin Campbell attending NSF-Sponsored Short Course

Professor Campbell will attend the NSF-Sponsored short course in research methods in Gainesville, Florida to be held July 25-29, 2016.