UWM organized panel at the SfAA conference in Pittsburgh, PA
A big thanks to Lindsay Barone for putting it together. Lindsay, Liam Murphy, and Jamie Henry all deserve a big congrats for their excellent presentations! See the Conference Program.
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Alexandra Frankel awarded Arit Summer Fellowship
Alexandra Frankel, a Master’s student in Anthropology, has been awarded an Arit Summer Fellowship for Intensive Advanced Language Study at Boğaziçi University, Istandbul, Turkey
2015 Anthropology Student Union Student Colloquium: Report
The 2015 Anthropology Student Union Student Colloquium was held in Sabin Hall on Saturday, March 14. This year’s theme was “Transformations in Time: Change as a Constant.”
Graduate student Kevin Garstki is first author on paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Graduate student Kevin Garstki, along with Bettina Arnold and Matthew Murray, publishes article in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Graduate Ramona Tenorio offered tenure-track job
Recent PhD graduate Ramona Tenorio has been offered a tenure-track job at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Bernard Perley co-authors op-ed piece on mascots
Bernard Perley was a co-author of an AAA op-ed piece condemning the use of American Indian mascots by professional sports organizations.
Bernard Perley presents to USCIS
Bernard Perley presented his artwork and anthropology research to the Office of Homeland Security/Citizenship and Immigrations Services Field Office in Milwaukee (USCIS).
Tracey Heatherington tracks global gene banking initiatives
Heatherington’s research tracks global gene banking initiatives across scales and networks of collaboration, connected through the node of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Graduate student Lara Ghisleni wins fieldwork grant
Ghisleni’s research engages with intercultural contact, culture change, and the intersubjectivity of social process.
Arnold and Jeske publish article on mortuary archaeology
“The archaeology of death: mortuary archaeology in the US and Europe 1990-2013” by Bettina Arnold and Robert Jeske has just appeared in the journal Annual Review of Anthropology.