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.
Graduate student Alexandra Frankel is the new publishing intern at the AAA in Washington D.C.
Anika Yetunde Jones was hired as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology tenure track at Oakton Community College. Congratulations Anika!
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.”
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.