News & Events
- The Department of Anthropology is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023-24 Anthropology Graduate Student Service Award: Kelsey Hoppes, Patrick McKenzie, and Stephania Zneimer. This award recognizes and reward outstanding service
- Dr. Alison Hanson (Cultural Anthropology MA 2016) was awarded the 2023 David Schneider Award for her groundbreaking dissertation research on the limits of Title IX policies in addressing gender-based violence on US college campuses.
- Dawa Lokyitsang's (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) panel "Theoretical Storytelling across North American and Asia in Settler Colonial Times," at the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto was a great success. The panel showcased the
- Our Cultural Anthropology graduate students took the 2023 AAA Conference in Toronto by storm. See below for a sampling of their the passion, dedication, and innovation. Lauren Barrett presented her innovative work on ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥â€™s energy
- Chilton Tippin (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defends his PhD Qualifying Exam.
- Jacob Jansen (MA Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper, "Queens of Inferno: A Political Apicology of Malta’s Beekeeping Conflicts."
- Professor Nancy Steven's co-authored article, "Living at the edge: home range patterns of the Buraiga Chimpanzee Community, Kibale National Park, Uganda," has been published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The article represents the first
- Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) granted a National Science Foundation Subsidy through the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This NSF subsidy allows Kelsey to
- Dawa Lokyitsang successfully defended her PhD thesis "Radical Compassion: Kinship, Education, and Care in the Tibetan Exile Community." Her committee members are Professor Carole McGranahan (advisor) and Professors Clint Carroll, Kate Goldfarb,
- Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society Student Paper Competition for her paper, “Lost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska