News
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Emeritus Professor John Speth is quoted in NPR article about the origins of soup:
Emeritus Professor John Speth is quoted in NPR article "Stone Age Stew? Soup Making May Be Older Than We'd Thought" about the origins of soup. Read More
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Henry Wright has been awarded the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Archaeology
Henry T. Wright has been awarded the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Archaeology, and will be honored in an all day session at the annual meeting in April. Read More
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Michigan Anthropology graduate student Amanda Logan has been awarded the 2013 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award
Amanda Logan has been awarded the 2013 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award for her 2012 thesis: A History of Food Without History: Food, Trade, and Environment in west-central Ghana in the Second Millennium AD Read More
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Video and press release for exhibit of Michigan Anthropology professor Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration Project
'State of Exception' exhibit presents indelible, haunting 'human cost' of undocumented workers entering U.S. from Mexico; opens Jan. 24 Read More
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Michigan Anthropology professor Ruth Behar's Cuba study-abroad course highlighted by LSA
LSA highlights Michigan Anthropology professor Ruth Behar's continuing initiative in her ongoing semester in Cuba program for undergraduates Read More
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Michigan Anthropology alum John Hawks discusses emertius professor John Speth's new article
Michigan Anthropology alum John Hawks talks in his popular blog about emeritus professor John' Speth's new article in Before Farming. Read More
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Obituary: Stephen Lane Pastner
It is with great regret we report that Steve Pastner, former Michigan Anthropology adjunct professor and husband of faculty member Judy Irvine, passed away Saturday, December 29, 2012. Read More
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Lisa Young interviewed for Mysteries at the Museum
Lisa Young was interviewed for the Travel Channel program Mysteries at the Museum about the Michigan Relics (often called the Soper frauds). Read More
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Matt Hull's work mentioned in New York Times
Michigan Anthropology professor Matt Hull's work on paperwork and bureaucracy in Pakistan is featured in the New York Times article, "The Paper Trail Through History" Read More
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Books by Michigan anthropologists in 2012
Michigan Anthropology had a busy year for publications, with 14 new books written or edited by our faculty. Read More
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Michigan Anthropology graduate student Brad Kramer quoted in Slate and NPR
Michigan Anthropology graduate student Brad Kramer quoted in Slate and NPR on "Mormon Church Launches Website On 'Same-Sex Attraction'" Read More
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Michigan Anthropology alum Mary Kelaita's ('12) work on modern-day howler monkeys in Mexico in UM News
Michigan Anthropology alum Mary Kelaita's ('12) study of interbreeding between two species of modern-day howler monkeys in Mexico appears in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology Read More
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Congratulations to Michigan Anthropology Outstanding GSIs
Each semester we honor the work of our Graduate Student Instructors. We'd like to say congratulations to this term's winners of the Michigan Anthropology 'Outstanding GSI Award': Read More
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Mike McGovern's new book, Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern out from University of Chicago Press.
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Michael Lempert on the marketing of the message in electoral politics
Michael Lempert has co-authored (with Michael Silverstein) a timely intervention into the political process in the new book: Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency (Indian University Press). Read More
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Jason De León's research on the border is featured on PRI's The World
Jason De León's research on the border this past summer is featured on PRI's The World. His fascinating project uncovers a tragic corollary of the cross-border immigration story. Read More
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Gayle Rubin is one of the 2012 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize
Congratulations to Gayle Rubin, one of the 2012 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. Read More
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Maureen Devlin and Jeremy DeSilva co-authored article in Journal of Human Evolution by
New Michigan Anthropology faculty member Maureen Devlin and Michigan Anthropology alum Jeremy deSilva co-published an article in Journal of Human Evolution Read More
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Milford Wolpoff and Michigan Anthropology biological anthropology alums in the news
Recent news stories featuring Milford Wolpoff, and former Michigan anthropologists John Hawks and Fred Smith. Read More
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Abby Bigham is second author on a research article in the most recent issue of Science
Abby Bigham appears as second author on a research article in the most recent issue of Science! The article is entitled, "Evolution of Functional Impact of Rare coding Variation from Deep Sequencing of Human Exomes." Read More
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Kelly Askew film will screen at the 31st Jean Rouch International Film Festival.
Kelly Askew's film ‘The Chairman and the Lions’ has been selected to screen at the prestigious ethnographic film festival, the 31st Jean Rouch International Film Festival. Read More
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John Mitani serves as scientific consultant for Disney Nature's movie "Chimpanzee"
John Mitani served as a scientific consultant to the film, which features footage of the chimpanzees he has been studying in Africa for nearly 20 years. The movie, shot entirely in the wild, opens April 20 in theaters nationwide. Read More
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Professor John O'Shea elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Michigan Anthropology Professor John O'Shea is among five U-M faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Read More
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Elisha Renne receives Guggenhiem Fellowship.
Michigan Anthropology professor Elisha Renne is among three U-M faculty members awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for their research. Read More
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Carla Sinopoli has been named Director of the Museum Studies Program
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Barbra Meek among this year's recipients of the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
One of the more prestigious recognitions conferred by the University, the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award has since 1996 honored those who have been exemplary in their commitment to a boundary-free academy. Read More
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Our Winter 2012 newsletter is out!
Check out what Michigan Anthropology has been doing this past year in our annual newsletter. Read More
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"Living, Breathing Archaeology' In The Arizona Desert"- Jason De Leon's work in NPR
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Michigan Anthropology Professor Beverly Strassmann works on project to relieve hunger in West Africa
Beverly Strassmann, who has worked for decandes with the Dogon people of West Mali, is now working to save the people from starvation. Read More
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Graduate Student Vanessa Diaz's research on celebrity reporting was recently featured on Yahoo
Graduate Student Vanessa Diaz speaks to Yahoo about her research on the world of celebrity, red-carpet reporting Read More
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Graduate Student Janak Rai in Anthropology News
The recent issue of Anthropology News features the work of one of our own: graduate student (and Tribhuvan University faculty member) Janak Rai. Read More
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Jacinta Beehner's work on geladas monkeys in new issue of Science
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Kelly Askew featured in radio interview this Saturday, February 4th
Kelly Askew, producer of documentary film, "Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar's Nadi Ikhwan Safaa," will discuss the film along with director Ron Mulvihill Saturday (Feb. 4th) at 4:00pm PST on 90.7 KPFK FM Radio in Los Angeles or www.kpfk.org. Read More
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Three 2011 Michigan Anthropology PhDs among AnthropologyWorks top 40 dissertations of 2011
Professor Barbara Miller, AnthropologyWorks blog, picked three of Michigan Anthropology's recent grads for her top 40 dissertations of 2011. Read More
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Jason De León's work on the border in the Huffington Post
Jason De León's Undocumented Migration Project in the news again, this time in the Huffington Post. Read More
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John Mitani among authors of one of top 100 science papers of 2011
Professor John Mitani was one of the authors on a paper on primate population dynamics in Kibale National Park in Uganda that showed humans are not the only primates "capable of hunting other primate populations to the brink of annihilation." Read More
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Jason De Leon's Undocumented Migration Project
Jason De Leon, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, is collecting what has become the largest assemblage of migrant artifacts in the country. Read More
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Recent news: Professor John O'Shea's innovative underwater archaeology project in Lake Huron.
U-M divers retrieve prehistoric wood from Lake Huron Read More
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"Don't call it 'trash'" - Jason De Leon in the Arizona Daily Sun
Jaosn De Leon's work on refuse left by undocumented immigrants profiled in the Arizona Daily Sun Read More
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Beverley Strassmann's work in the NRC Handelsblad
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New York Times review of Andrew Shryock's new book
Don't miss the NYT notice of Andrew Shryock's new work (and co-edited volume) on "deep time" -- a host of Michigan friends are included. Read More
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Beverly Strassmann's work featured in Michigan Today
Beverly Strassmann's work on child survival and child rearing strategies, was recently featured in Michigan Today article, "Actually, it doesn't take a village..." Read More
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John Mitani NYT opinion piece on "Rise of Planet of the Apes"
Michigan Anthropology professor John Mitani has an opinion piece on the new movie "Rise of Planet of the Apes" in last Sunday's New York Times. Read More
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A Tribute to Fernando Coronil (1944-2011)
A tribute to Fernando written by Michigan Anthropology alum Genese Sodikoff. Read More
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Tributes to Fernando Coronil
It is with great sadness that we announce that our friend and colleague, Fernando Coronil, has passed away. Read More
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Milford Wolpoff in the Los Angeles Times
Milford Wolpoff receives a nice mention in an LA Times article that posits a demographic explanation for the fading of Neanderthal fortunes. Read More
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Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery in the New York Times
A fascinating article in the New York Times (the Science section) on state societies and warfare featuring the work of Joyce Marcus & Kent Flannery. Read More
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Roberto Frisancho is recipient of the Sociedad Peruana de Nutrición Award
Professor Emeritus Roberto Frisancho is recipient of the Sociedad Peruana de Nutrición Award in recognition of his distinguished research on human nutrition. Read More
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Congratulations to International Institute Individual Fellowship Recipients
Anthropology graduate students Marcela Benitez and Joshua Shapero are among the International Institute Individual Fellowship Recipients. Read More
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Roberto Frisancho Wins Sociedad Peruana de Nutrición Award
Professor Emeritus Roberto Frisancho is the recipient of the Sociedad Peruana de Nutrición Award, in recognition of his distinguished research on human nutrition. Read More
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Jacinta Beehner's research on geladas featured in LSA Wire
Jacinta Beehner and Thore Bergman watch the love lives and family structures of gelada monkeys, with findings fit for a soap opera. Read More
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Congratulations 2011 Rackham International Research Award Grantees!
Graduate students Bethany Hansen, Katherine Fultz, Geoffrey Hughes and Alison Joersz are among the 2011 Rackham International Research Award Grantees. Read More
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Andrew Shryock receives 2011 John Dewey Award for long term commitment to undergraduate teaching
Andrew Shryock received the 2011 John Dewey Award for long term commitment to undergraduate teaching. This award is presented by the LSA Executive from the pool of those recommended for promotion to Full Professor in a given year. Read More
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Anthropology undergraduate Jennifer McCoy wins Patricia Kennedy Award
Anthropology undergraduate concentrator Jennifer McCoy is one of the winners of the Patricia Kennedy Award, which recognizes excellent writing and scholarship in English literature or women’s issues. Read More
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Jennifer Robertson receives Guggenheim Award
Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology & History of Art, is among five UM recipients of this year's Guggenheim Award for her project entitled, "Safety, security, convenience: The political economy of service robots in Japan." Read More
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Andrew Shryock Receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
Among this year's recipients of the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award is our own Andrew Shryock. This award annually recognizes five faculty whose service contributes to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community. Read More
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Graduate Student NSF Recipients
Lindsay Ahalt and Brady G'Sell are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award. Read More
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Ruth Behar Book Honor
The Chinese edition of Ruth Behar's book, The Vulnerable Observer, just received recognition as one of the top best books for 2010 (in the translation category) in Taiwan. Read More
