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Monday, November 19, 2018
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, conducted a presentation and participated in two roundtables at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Community Connections Academy and National Communications, Outreach and Visitor Services Training Workshop at the National Conse
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
»Applied Linguistics, World Languages & Literatures, Anthropology sponsored a screening of the the award winning movie "The Linguists."
Monday, October 29, 2018
»Maria Beebe, Anthropology faculty, authored a chapter titled “Passion, Risk, and Adventure in My International Development Leadership Repertoire,” published in the book Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gen
»Maria Beebe, Anthropology faculty, edited the book DISRUPT 3.0. Filipina Women: Rising, the third book on leadership by the Filipina Women’s Network. The book was launched at the network’s leadership summit at the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, Wes
Monday, September 24, 2018
»Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, was awarded a three-year, $153,000 grant from the National Park Service to undertake research on pre-19th century cultural interaction across the Beringian region of northern Alaska and Russia. The international rese
Thursday, August 23, 2018
»PSU researchers receive $230K to study diet of indigenous Alaskan communities centuries ago
Thursday, June 28, 2018
»Tribal members, PSU professor help revegetate Nevada low-level radioactive waste site
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
»Xia Zhang, Anthropology faculty, received a $50,000 postdoctoral fellowship for her research project titled “’Parents Are Poison’: Filial Piety, New Media, and Psychological Self-Help in Contemporary China" from the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS in China Stu
Monday, May 21, 2018
»Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, has been awarded a $228,400, three-year National Science Foundation grant to study the antiquity of Arctic aquatic adaptations, which are central to modern Iñupiaq and Inuit culture. Aquatic resources are important f
Monday, April 23, 2018
»Virginia Butler, Anthropology faculty, has co-authored a paper, “Human Ecodynamics: A Perspective for the Study of Long-Term Change in Socioecological Systems," published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Monday, April 9, 2018
»Doug Wilson, Anthropology faculty, authored a chapter, "The Fort and the Village: Landscape and Identity in the Colonial Period of Fort Vancouver," in the book British Forts and Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives from University
Monday, April 2, 2018
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, presented a talk entitled “Migrant Emplacement: Gendered Subjects, State Regulations, and the Discursive Erasure of Elders in Sri Lanka” at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute in Singapore,
Monday, March 12, 2018
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, presented a paper, “Understanding Recovery from the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: Resilience and Change,” at the South Asian Conference of the Pacific Northwest in Vancouver, Canada, March 3.
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, conducted an invited talk, “Catastrophe in Context: Household Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes,” sponsored by the Himalaya Initiative at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 5.
Monday, February 19, 2018
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, presented a paper, "Emplacement: Precarious Labor, Migration, and Sri Lanka's Family Background Report Policy," at the conference "Addressing Labour's Precariousness in Sri Lanka and Beyond," International Centre for
Friday, February 16, 2018
»Discover Magazine: A Professor's DIY Spacesuit
Monday, January 29, 2018
»Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, and former PSU graduate student Justin Junge co-wrote "Late Precontact Settlement on the Northern Seward Peninsula Coast: Results of Recent Fieldwork," published in the Alaska Journal of Anthropology, Vol 15, No. 1-2
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, received a contract from the Department of Energy and Desert Research Institute to facilitate a tribal revegetation project in a low-level nuclear waste area on the Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Tes
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
»Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, visited Australia and did two interviews in Sinhala about her research in Sri Lanka. The first interview aired on SBS radio, a national broadcaster of multicultural and multilingual programming. The second interview
»Kenneth Ames, Anthropology faculty, and alumni TJ Brown and Jonathan Duelks co-authored “Urbanism in Northern Tsimshian Archaeology” published in Hunter Gatherer Research, Vol. 3, No. 1.