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Monday, May 25, 2020
»Sharon Carstens, anthropology faculty emerita, and Ang Lay Hoon, anthropology faculty emerita, coauthored “Conversational Codeswitching: Languaging Chinese Identities in Multilingual Malaysia,” published in Asian Journal of Social Science.
Monday, May 18, 2020
»Charles H. Klein, anthropology faculty, co-authored “Findings from Formative Research to Develop a Strength-Based HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion mHealth Intervention for Transgender Women,” published in Transgender Health.
»Christina J. Sun and Charles Klein co-authored “A Sexual Health Promotion App for Transgender Women (Trans Women Connected): Development and Usability Study,” published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
Monday, April 13, 2020
»Michele Gamburd, anthropology faculty, published a chapter titled “Migrant Emplacement: Gendered Subjects, State Regulations, and the Discursive Erasure of Elders in Sri Lanka,” published in Caring for Old Age from Heidelberg University Press.
Monday, March 30, 2020
»Shelby Anderson, anthropology faculty, co-authored a paper titled “Studying Pre-Colonial Gendered Use of Space in the Arctic: Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska,” published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Monday, March 2, 2020
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty emerita, presented “Languaging Resistance and Accommodation in Chinese Malaysian Political Speech” at the CALA 2020 Conference in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, on Feb. 8.
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty emerita, presented “Conversational Codeswitching: Languaging Chinese Identities in Multilingual Malaysia” at the Malaysian Chinese Research Center at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, on Feb. 20.
Monday, February 10, 2020
»Cameron Smith, Anthropology adjunct faculty, co-authored a chapter titled “Exploring the Psychological basis for Transitions in the Archaeological Record,” in Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, published by Routledge.
Monday, January 27, 2020
»Melanie Chang, Anthropology adjunct faculty, answered questions about the “caveman” stereotype and whether it’s rooted in science fiction or scientific fact for the episode “Caveman Confidential” on the podcast Every Little Thing.
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, authored a chapter titled “Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity, Age and Kin-Work in Sri Lankan Migrants’ Families,” in the book The Asian Migrant’s Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality.
Monday, January 6, 2020
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, participated in a panel discussion titled “Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths: A Roundtable Discussion” at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Nov. 21.
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, presented “Long-Term Aftermath in Sri Lanka of the Indian Ocean Tsunami” on a panel titled “Earthquake Aftermaths: Temporality and Transformation” at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association.
Monday, November 11, 2019
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, receive a three-year $353,552 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to return to Nepal to better understand how households recover from natural disasters.
Monday, October 28, 2019
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, presented a paper titled “Aging in Place and the Art of Kinship: Social Reproduction and Family Relations in Sri Lanka” on the panel “The Art of Kinship: Re-making Family in Sri Lanka”
Monday, October 7, 2019
»Charles Klein, Anthropology faculty, published the article “‘I never thought this could be for me’: aspirational capital, identities, and political engagement among first-generation college students in São Paulo” in the journal International Studies in So
»Charles Klein, Anthropology faculty, published the article “Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo Periphery” in the journal City & Society.
Monday, September 30, 2019
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, has been awarded a three-year, $353,552 grant from the National Science Foundation to study longer-term impacts of Nepal’s 2015 earthquake.
Monday, August 5, 2019
»Doug Wilson, Anthropology faculty, is featured in an Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary on Fort Vancouver, which recent won a regional Emmy in Historical/Cultural – Program/Special category. The Portland State University archaeological field school pa
Friday, August 2, 2019
»PSU professor awarded $300K grant to study longer-term impacts of Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
»Dig into Oregon history and culture with PSU's Archaeology Roadshow