On March 24th, Todd presented a paper at the American Ethnological Society conference in Philadelphia. The paper was part of a medical anthropology panel and was titled “”Where I End and You Start”: The Ethical Limits of Good Care.” 

Associate Professor, Bernie Perley, and graduate student, Monea Warrington, participated in the first of a seven-part series featuring American Indian perspectives of the night sky. The series will take place every Friday from March 23 through May 4, at 7… Read More

UWM Anthropology Ph.D Dissertator Alexis Jordan is making moves. Recently, Alexis received the Prehistoric Society-SUERC Radiocarbon Award (SUERC stands for Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre). This award will cover the costs of dating two individuals from the Iron Age burial… Read More

UWM Anthropology graduate student Lauren Kiesewetter and Anthropology major Armando Manresa, along with other UWM students help the Milwaukee Public Museum bring a new weapons exhibit to life.
“Weapons: Beyond the Blade” runs until Jan 1st at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

The program summarizes the recovery of human remains associated with the unmarked, abandoned Second Ward Cemetery, also known as the Gruenhagen Cemetery or German Protestant Cemetery. The work was done as a result of the expansion associated with Guest House of Milwaukee, a non-profit shelter for homeless men.

Tracey Heatherington co-edited a forum on “Anthropologists Witnessing and Reshaping the Neoliberal Academy” published in volume 5(1) of ANUAC, the journal of the national association of Italian cultural anthropologists.

Alexandra Frankel, a Spring 2017 cultural anthropology MS graduate, joined the American Anthropological Association in December 2016 as an editorial assistant.

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.

Amy Klemmer, will use the award to study past human responses to climate change in Ecuador during the summer of 2017.

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.