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  • Nicholas in a Cave
    Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) received the Anthropology Department鈥檚 Social Sciences 50% GA Graduate Fellowship! This award will support Nicholas as he completes his dissertation research under the advisement of Professor Sarah
  • Gender Sexuality and Life Course Book Cover
    Professor Donna M. Goldstein's article, "Corned Beef Sandwich: Sexuality and Aging in Times of COVID-19," published in the upcoming volume Gender, Sexuality and Life Course: Research and Dialogues over Contemporary Social Transformations (Vernon
  • Corruption and illiberal politics book cover
    Goldstein, Donna M., and Kristen Drybread, editors. Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era. Routledge, 2022. Reviewed in CHOICE, Dec. 2023. Featuring contributions from CU Anthropology faculty Carla Jones and alumna
  • Dawa at a podium
    Alumna, Dawa Lokyitsang (PhD Anthropology, 2023) awarded a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. This fellowship is designed for outstanding researchers
  • Science magazine cover January 2025
    Jennifer Leichliter (PhD Anthropology, 2018), a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, latest research, "Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat," was just published in Science! 
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    McGranahan, Carole. 鈥淚 Was Wrong 51传媒 Theory.鈥 American Ethnologist, vol. 52, 2025, pp. 68鈥72. Theory occupies a central, if curious place in contemporary anthropology. It is needed and valuable, enabling the articulation and
  • lucy reconstruction sculpture
    Professor Matt Sponheimer reflects in A&S Magazine on the enduring significance of "Lucy," the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Ethiopia. Half a century after her discovery, Lucy continues to be a pivotal
  • Child Bunny Hat in the dirt
    Santill谩n, Aim茅e, and Chilton Tippin. (2024). Making Migrant Death Data Count: Recommendations for Addressing An Alarming Trend in Preventable Migrant Deaths in the El Paso Sector. Hope Border Institute. The report draws from
  • origin stories logo
    Professor Fernando Villanea featured on the Leakey Foundation podcast - Top Human Origins Discoveries of 2024. 2024 was another amazing year in human origins research. In this episode, three Leakey Foundation grantees (and one podcast host)
  • Advances in Diabetes Cover
    Edmiston, P. (2024). A Historic FDA Clearance: Open Source Software and the Making of Tidepool Loop. In: Fishman, S. (eds) Advances in Diabetes Technology. Contemporary Endocrinology. Springer, Cham.Abstract Tidepool Loop is the
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