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.”
Maddie Poullette awarded two research grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
In August 2015, the Guest House, a local homeless shelter, broke ground to expand into an empty lot when a man’s grave was uncovered. Construction was halted, and the shelter called the UWM Cultural Resource Management program for help with the unexpected exhumation.
The Graduate Fellowship Committee of the Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Preliminary Dissertation Research Awards: Mulung Hsu and Robert Ahlrichs
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.
PhD: Krista-Lee Malone, Katy Mollerud. MS: Antoinette Fafara-Thompson, Rebecca Fetzer, Jamie Henry, Sarah Klingman-Cole, Barbara McClendon, Victor Ponte, Cara Reeves, Jessica Skinner.
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.
Bettina Arnold was the Banquet Speaker at the 59th annual Midwest Archaeological Conference held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee on Saturday November 7, 2015.
UWM Today’s Tom Luljak talks with Thomas Malaby, chair of UWM’s anthropology department, and John Richards, director of the UWM Cultural Resource Management program.
Bernard Perley continues to call attention to naturalized racism against American Indians through America’s use of offensive sports mascots and monikers.