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Stephanie Fox Awarded the UNM Anthropology Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-2023
Posted: Apr 26, 2022 - 02:00pm
Stephanie Fox, doctoral candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, has been awarded the UNM Anthropology Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-2023. The fellowship is awarded each year to a graduate student who has completed their research and is in the wri...read more
Body Size from Unconventional Specimens: A 3D Geometric Morphometrics Approach to Fishes from Ancestral Pueblo Contexts
Posted: Apr 25, 2022 - 10:00am
Dr. Jonathan Dombrosky (UNM PhD, 2021) is lead author on a recent publication in The Journal of Archaeological Science entitled Body Size from Unconventional Specimens: A 3D Geometric Morphometrics Approach to Fishes from Ancestral Pueblo Contexts.A...read more
Migrants from South Carrying Maize were Early Maya Ancestors
Posted: Apr 21, 2022 - 10:00am
"A site in Belize has been critical to studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food, according to research published in Nature Communications by an interdisciplinary team of scientists. Exca...read more
Sarah Leiter Awarded Grant from Archaeological Society of New Mexico
Posted: Apr 20, 2022 - 02:20pm
Sarah Leiter, doctoral student in Ethnology, has been awarded a grant from the Archaeological Society of New Mexico for her dissertation research. Her sociocultural and linguistic anthropological project investigates the role of ancestral ident...read more
Ruizhe Liu Accepted to National Science Foundation (NSF) Methods 4 All Camp
Posted: Apr 20, 2022 - 12:00pm
Ruizhe Liu, doctoral student in Evolutionary Anthropology, has been accepted to the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Methods 4 All Camp. This is an intensive online experience including asynchronous online lectures, synchrono...read more
Dr. Amy Thompson Awarded the UNM Popejoy Dissertation Prize
Posted: Apr 20, 2022 - 12:00pm
Dr. Amy Thompson (UNM PhD, 2019) has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopoligical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains. Dr. Thompson is current...read more
Larkin Chapman Awarded Grant from the Archaeological Society of New Mexico
Posted: Apr 19, 2022 - 12:00pm
Doctoral student Larkin Chapman has received the Archaeological Society of New Mexico award for her project New Radiocarbon Dates on Late Pleistocene Horses from the San Pedro Valley, AZ, and Investigating Human-Megafaunal Overlap in the Southw...read more
Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. April Kamp Whittaker hired as Tenure Track Faculty at California State University (Chico)
Posted: Apr 18, 2022 - 12:00pm
Dr. April Kamp-Whittaker, post-doctoral fellow in UNM Anthropology, has been hired as Assistant Professor of Anthropology (tenure track) at California State University-Chico. A graduate of ASU, April has taught courses in both Anthropology and...read more
Emily Moes Awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Posted: Apr 13, 2022 - 12:00pm
Emily Moes has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her work is entitled, Association between Child dental Fluctuating Asymmetry and Material Environmental Conditions. Abstract: Studies show that hea...read more
Jordan Martinez (BA) Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Posted: Apr 07, 2022 - 11:00am
Incoming Anthropology graduate student, Jordan Martinez, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to support her graduate work. Ms. Martinez, who received her BA with honors from the UNM Department ...read more
Dr. Siobhan Mattison Leads SAR Research Team Seminar: The Influence of Market Integration on Escalating Inequality in Small-scale Societies
Posted: Apr 05, 2022 - 12:00pm
Siobhan Mattison (UNM Anthropology), Mary Shenk (Penn State) and Tami Blumenfield (UNM Anthropology) led a competitively awarded, School for Advanced Research (SAR), Research Team Seminar, The Influence of Market Integration on Escalating Inequality...read more
Hannah Cantrell Awarded the Dental Anthropology Association’s Dahlberg Prize for Best Paper
Posted: Mar 31, 2022 - 01:00pm
Hannah Cantrell, an undergraduate in the Department of Anthropology, has won the Dental Anthropology Association’s Dahlberg Prize for best paper, an award normally given to a graduate student. Title: The Root of the Problem: D...read more
