News & Events
- Scarlett Engle awarded Dissertation Fellowships from the Center for the Humanities and the Arts for the entire 2023-24 academic year. This funding will help Scarlett complete her dissertation, The Power of Placemaking: Collaborating with
- Scarlett Engle accepts a seasonal position as a Cultural Anthropologist at Rocky Mountain National Park. Scarlett will assist with a variety of projects to enhance the park's stewardship of ethnographic resources. She will be supporting
- Allison Formanack (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2018) has just co-authored a new article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, "Race, Class, and Place Modify Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 1999–2021."
- Professor Will Taylor's, "Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Plains and Northern Rockies," article featured as the cover story in Science. Abstract: The horse is central to many Indigenous cultures across the American Southwest and
- Sarah Simeonoff was awarded the Bertha Parker Cody Award for Native American Women. These scholarships support archaeological training and undergraduate and graduate studies for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
- Congratulations to archaeology graduate student Kelsey Hoppes who passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam. Awesome work, Kelsey!
- During Professor Lauren Hosek's CU Museum AIA Lecture, "They are still teaching us": Community Bioarchaeology & the Sisters of Loretto Project, Lauren was recognized for her contribution to the project and the care she took towards the nuns
- Graduate student Georgia Butcher awarded an NSF DDRIG Grant. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation,
- Graduate student Chilton Tippin publishes, "The Mexican River Defenders Fighting for the San Pedro," in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine. The article is about a river-based resistance group in Chihuahua, Mexico that uses trash
- Professor William Taylor worked with TED animators and sound designers to produce an animated educational resource on the global story of people and horses. In this TED-Ed video, Professor Taylor explores how the domestication of horses