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Jessica Hiroshima Misiorek (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candiate) awarded the Kathleen M. Adams Paper Award for her MA thesis: "Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity
Alumna, Lucas Rozell's (MA Anthropology 2024) and Professor Kate Goldfarb's co-authored essay, ""Living Archives," about work on the Marshall Fire Story Project published in American Ethnological Society Online.Read the article in AES Online
The CU Department of Anthropology was in excellent form during the recent American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans. In addition to over a dozen different research panels, we also celebrated our scholarship and our community
Nicholas Puente (Archeology, PhD Candidate) and Professor Sarah Kurnick publish,"Maya Roads as Kuxansumob: Analyzing an Intrasite Sak-Be," in Latin American Antiquity Journal. Puente and Kurnick challenge conventional Western understandings of
Anden Drolet successfully defended his dissertation, "Pressurized to Leave: Balancing Values in Urban Bhutan." Anden's committee included Carole McGranahan as advisor, along with Professors Alison Cool, Kate Goldfarb, Carla Jones, and
Alumna Paige Edmiston (PhD Anthropology, 2025) awarded the 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. Her award-winning paper, “So Consistently Incompetent It
Professor Kate Goldfarb awarded a research fellowship from the Japan Foundation for her upcoming sabbatical. This fellowship will support her project, "The Futures of Japanese Child Welfare," a co-designed, collaborative, and community-engaged
Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Rowe awarded and started NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology with Professor Nancy Stevens (3 year fellowship).
Graduate student Eva Stela Nomenjanahary awarded best graduate student abstract at RMBAA for her article, "Acoustic Classification and Context-Specific Variation of Vocalizations in Phaner pallescens."
Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Rowe and Graduate Student Eva Stela Nomenjanahary'sresearch on the Dry Forest Alliance initiative featured in Mongabay. They're highlighting how Verreaux's sifakas could be key to saving Madagascar's unique dry