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 Colorado’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