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  • Olumide in front a wall of skulls
    Olumide Ojediran (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) received an honorable mention at the 2025 RE Taylor Student Poster Award competition at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting yesterday, for his work "Understanding Human-Equid
  • Donna Goldstein Headshot
    Professor Donna Goldstein has been chosen as a winner of the Graduate School’s 2024-2025 Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. These faculty were nominated by students, department or program administrators, faculty, or staff for their
  • Kate, Jessica, Carla and Carole over Zoom
    Jessica Misiorek (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended her MA paper, "Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity." Her committee members were
  • Yuxiang Lin on a Bridge
    Yuxiang Lin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Report as Infrastructure: The Discursive Construction of Nepal's Hydropower." His committee members were Professors Jerry Jacka and Carole McGranahan, (co-
  • PNAS Cover
    Professor Scott Ortman's co-authored PNAS article, "Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term," featured in A&S Magazine.  ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ archaeologist Scott Ortman and colleagues around the
  • David Hansen Prospectus Defense
    David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has successfully defended his prospectus, "Early Life, Sex, and Migration: Mortality Risks from Famin and Plague in Midieval Mining Town of Kutna Hora, Czechi" and advances to candidacy.  
  • sharon, lauren, fernando and david
    David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in progress) has successfully passed his qualifying exam. His committee consisted of Professors Sharon Dewitte, Lauren Hosek and Fernando Villanea.
  • Annabelle in front of her presentation
    Annabelle Lewis (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) has successfully defended her prospectus, "Landscapes of Conspicuous Mortuary Consumption in 19th-Century Upstate New York"" and advances to candidacy.  Her committee members were Eric Jones (
  • Gabby Perry MA Defense Thumbs Up
    Gabi Perry (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) completed a successful defense of her Master’s paper, "Archaeological Predictive Model for Ocean Bay Sites on Kodiak Island, Alaska." 
  • Kelsey in front of a pond
    Kelsey Armeni (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has been selected as a 2025-2027 Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar! This two-year program recognizes graduate students in the arts, humanities, and related fields who use creative and
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