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2008/2009
Did Paleo-Indians hunt on lands now submerged by the modern Great Lakes? : "Using sonar and remote-operated vehicles, the research team from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's Museum of Anthropology and Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory surveyed about 28 square miles (72 square kilometers) as deep as 492 feet (150 meters) below the lake's surface along the now-submerged Alpena-Amberley ridge. Among the findings was a 984-foot- (300-meter-) long structure that match caribou driving lanes (a long precursor to the modern cattle chute, which directed herds of caribou into an area where they could be killed) documented on dry land on Canada's Victoria Island."
UM Anthro-History PhD Shannon Dowdy's course on pirates has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and, at this link, the Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/23/studying-the-culture-of-piracy/
Alum Ilana Feldman (PhD in Anthro-History 2002) has received the seventh annual Cultural Horizons Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology for her article “Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza.” The article appeared in Cultural Anthropology in February 2007.
New books published by Michigan Anthropology alumni: "The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru" by Jessaca Leinaweaver (Duke University Press) and "Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967: by Ilana Feldman (Duke University Press).
Ruth Behar has an article in The Chronicle Review: "The Anthropologist's Son: Obama's mother taught him to appreciate cultural diversity, and that's a lesson we could all benefit from". (11/17/2008)
The Fall 2008 issue of the LSA Magazine (link to complete issue) has features on two Anthropology students:
Graduate student Rebecca Carter’s work in New Orleans is featured on page 6, and undergraduate concentrator Dylan Imre is featured on page 50 with business partner Jonathan Carender.
Jennifer Robertson was recently featured in Newsweek-Japan.
Webb Keane has been invited to give two prestigious lectures in April 2009: the Annette Weiner Memorial Lecture at NYU, April 2; and the D. R. Sharpe Lecture on Social Ethics at the University of Chicago, April 22.
Luke Bergmann, who received his PhD in Anthropology-Social Work in
2004 will have the revision of his dissertation appearing in Fall
2008 with the New Press.
Ann-Elise Lewallen in the International Herald Tribune: Ainu rise up from the margins of Japanese society
Jennifer Roberston's research is featured in The Marker, the business/financial magazine attached to the Ha'aretz, the major daily newspaper in Israel.
2007/2008
The June 2 issue of the New Yorker features our own Bridget Guarasci in the "Talk of the Town" on roof-top fire pits, Faceboook blasts, and "Obama-tinis."
Fernando Coronil was featured on NPR February 18th, speaking about Hugo Chavez.
Webb Keane will be featured on Channel 22's "Citizen Socrates" in February.
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