News & Events
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Catherine Cameron for receiving the prestigious Alfred Vincent Kidder Award! This award, This award, presented by the American Anthropological Association but selected by the Archaeology Division of AAA,
The Department of Anthropology is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024-25 Anthropology Graduate Student Service Award: Meg Hardie, Jessica Misiorek, and Nicholas Puente. This award recognizes and rewards outstanding
Kate Goldfarb's Book, Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care featured in A&S Magazine. ̽Ƶ anthropologist Kathryn Goldfarb spearheads new book that examines the difficult aspects of family connection.Historically,
Cristian Figueroa's (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) co-authored article published in "The Current," a biannual newsletter for the SAA Island & Coastal Archaeology interest group. The article is about Cristian's summer research with
Kate Goldfarb's Book, "Fragile Kinships" published by Cornell University Press. This book is based on ethnographic research in Japan from 2008 to 2023). The book includes gorgeous illustrations by our own Sasha Buckser (Biological Anthropology
Professor Will Taylor's article, "How Horses Made the Modern World," is featured on the cover of the December 2024 issue of Scientific American! This piece explores archaeological and genetic discoveries that topple long-standing ideas about the
Professor Will Taylor's article, "Do Moose “Belong” in Colorado?" published in SAPIENS. This article is an appplied archaeology collaboration with Museum Studies graduate studentChance Ward on the role of archaeology in moose conservation and
Kelsey Armeni's (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) co-authored paper published in BMJ Open with the People, Place, and Health Collective at Brown University School of Public Health. This protocol paper was published for a clinical trial
Annabelle Lewis's (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) co-authored paper with her faculty adviser and three undergraduate researchers, "The Role of Women’s Labor in the Commercialization of Dairy Farming in Late 19th-Century Madison County, NY," was
Georgia Butcher's (Anthropology, PhD 2024) research article, "The MQ-9 Reaper Amid Environmental Crisis: Weapon of War or Humanitarian Tool?" published by Platypus. In this thought-provoking essay, Georgia contemplates the repurposing of the