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Alumna, Andrea Steffes-Tuttle's Article Featured in A&S Magazine

Renee Kuban — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:39:39 +0000

Alumna, Andrea Steffes-Tuttle's Article Featured in A&S Magazine Renee Kuban Tue, 08/27/2024 - 13:39

Congrats to Alumna, Andrea Steffes-Tuttle (MA, Cultural Anthropology 2024) for her insightful article featured in A&S Magazine! Her latest piece, "The Case for Employee Ownership: A New Paradigm for Business Education," dives deep into the transformative potential of employee ownership models in business schools.

Andrea's work challenges conventional business education and advocates for integrating employee ownership principles to foster more inclusive and equitable workplaces.

Check out her thought-provoking article here: /.../case-employee-ownership...

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Alumna, Chu May Paing (Anthropology, PhD 2024) Publishes Article in Platypus

Renee Kuban — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:00:40 +0000

Alumna, Chu May Paing (Anthropology, PhD 2024) Publishes Article in Platypus Renee Kuban Wed, 08/14/2024 - 10:00

Alumna, Chu May Paing (Anthropology, PhD 2024) published a brilliant essay called "Trolling: Breaking Rules, Poking Fun, or Just Outright Harassment?" in Platypus, the official blog for the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology &

Computing. This essay was edited by Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, Phd Candidate) in her role as a Contributing Editor for Platypus.

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Ph.D. Student Griëtte van der Heide Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:35:35 +0000

Ph.D. Student Griëtte van der Heide Successfully Defends Her Dissertation Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/25/2024 - 10:35

Griëtte van der Heide successfully defended her dissertation "Understanding the Owl Monkey (Aotus Azarae Azarae) From the Bottom Up: From Functional Ecology in the Humid Chaco to Diet and Social Monogamy." Her committee members were Dr. Bert Covert (advisor), Dr. Matt Sponheimer, Dr. Michelle Sauther, Dr. Gerardo Gutiérrez, and Dr. Thad Bartlett (The University of Texas at San Antonio).

Congratulations Dr. Griëtte van der Heide!

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Louisville Historical Museum, Marshall Fire Story Project, Wins 2024 AASLH Award of Excellence

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:12:44 +0000

Louisville Historical Museum, Marshall Fire Story Project, Wins 2024 AASLH Award of Excellence Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/08/2024 - 11:12

Louisville Historical Museum, Marshall Fire Story Project, Wins 2024 AASLH Award of Excellence. Professor Kate Goldfarb, Lucas Rozell (MA alum) and Emily Reynolds (BA/MA alum), and more recently students in Kate’s Practicing Anthropology spring 2024 seminar, have been collaborating with the Louisville Historical Museum since 2022 on the Marshall Fire Story Project to hold space for and archive the stories of people impacted by the December, 2021 Marshall Fire.

Read more about the Award Louisville Historical Museum

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Will Taylor's New Book Featured in A&S Magazine

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:22:08 +0000

Will Taylor's New Book Featured in A&S Magazine Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/24/2024 - 14:22

Professor William Taylor's upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ featured in A&S Magazine. In the book, Professor Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses.

Nearly a million years ago in what is now southern England, human ancestors called Homo heidelbergensis were creating tools from horse bones. Fast forward to about 30,000 years ago, and humans across Europe and northern Eurasia were regularly painting horses on cave walls and carving their likenesses from bone and ivory.

“The connection between people and horses is among the most ancient connections that we have with the animal world,” says William Taylor, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder and curator of archaeology for the CU Boulder Museum of Natural History.

But Taylor says it’s what happened about 4,000 years ago that really changed things. That’s when people living in the grasslands near the Black Sea first domesticated horses.

And when that happened, Taylor says the effect on the world and the centuries that followed was not a gradual development “but a sudden jolt, a shock to the system” that influenced nearly every aspect of human life―revolutionizing things like transportation, agriculture and warfare.

“After domestication, horses spread like wildfire, stampeding into new societies, creating new partnerships with people that shook up the structure of the ancient world almost everywhere they went,” he explains.

Learn more about Professor Taylor's research and book in A&S Magazine

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Alumna, Susan Erikson Named as a 2023 Distinguished SFU Professor

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:46:17 +0000

Alumna, Susan Erikson Named as a 2023 Distinguished SFU Professor Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/24/2024 - 12:46

Alumna, Susan Erikson (Anthropology, PhD 2001) was named a Distinguished (Full) Professor at Simon Fraser University for her work in the political economy of global health. This honour is conferred on SFU research faculty members who have achieved exceptional performance and distinguished accomplishments relative to their rank and years of service. The program is jointly offered by the Provost and Vice President, Academic and the VPRI.

Learn more about Professor Erikson and her work Simon Fraser University

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Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event Featured in A&S Magazine, Vail Daily and Colorado Sun

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:28:57 +0000

Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event Featured in A&S Magazine, Vail Daily and Colorado Sun Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/17/2024 - 12:28

Professor Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event Featured in A&S Magazine, Vail Daily, and Colorado Sun. Professor McGranahan's work delves into the incredible history of Tibetan soldiers trained by the CIA at Camp Hale in the 1960s. This fascinating story uncovers a unique chapter of Tibetan-American relations and highlights the resilience and bravery of the Tibetan people.

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Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event in A&S Magazine

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:15:34 +0000

Carole McGranahan's Tibetan Research and Camp Hale Event in A&S Magazine Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/04/2024 - 09:15

Professor Carole McGranahan who has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet, joins the Tibetan community to commemorate the location on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.

For decades, the CIA’s training of Tibetan soldiers to fight Chinese invaders was a state secret, but even after the U.S. government formally acknowledged the CIA-Tibet effort, the exact location of the Tibetan camp remained a mystery.

With the dogged research of anthropologist Carole McGranahan, the precise location is now known. McGranahan, a University of Colorado Boulder anthropology professor who’s been studying the Tibetan perspective on the resistance to China for more than three decades, will soon join Tibetans from Colorado and beyond to commemorate the camp, six decades after it was closed.

The memorial gathering, which is titled “Dumra/The Secret Garden–Commemorating the CIA-Tibet Program at Camp Hale,” will take place at noon on June 9 at Camp Hale National Monument.

Members of the Tibetan community from around the world and several members of parliament of the Dalai Lama’s exile government in India are scheduled to attend, as is one of his cabinet ministers.

McGranahan said finding the training camp’s actual location now is meaningful for two reasons. “One is that most of the veterans and retired (CIA) agents have passed,” and the other is that the history of the operation had been suppressed and concealed for decades—a condition McGranahan calls “arrested history.”

Tibetans, for instance, have been unable to “celebrate and honor these soldiers in a way that they deserved,” she said. “This service, not just to Tibet but to the Dalai Lama, was the defining moment of their lives.”

For the Tibetan community to know the actual location, she added, “is meaningful in a way that even as a scholar I hadn’t fully appreciated.”

Read the article and learn more about the event in A&S Magazine

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Caroline Conzelman Promoted to Full Professor

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:07:11 +0000

Caroline Conzelman Promoted to Full Professor Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:07

Alumna, Caroline Conzelman (Anthropology, PhD 2007) was promoted to Full Teaching Professor this year at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches anthropology courses and mentors first-year students in the College of Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs. She is also the Program Director of the Environment and Natural Sciences RAP. In July she directed a new summer Study Abroad course in Bali on sustainability and social entrepreneurship for the Environmental Studies Department.

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Nicholas Puente & Sarah Simeonoff Present at the 2024 TAG Meeting

Anonymous — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:20:02 +0000

Nicholas Puente & Sarah Simeonoff Present at the 2024 TAG Meeting Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/28/2024 - 09:20

Graduate students Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) and Sarah Simeonoff (Archaelogy, PhD in Progress) present at the 2024 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Nicholas Puente presented, "Entangling Surface and Subsurface Worlds: The movement of speleothems and creation of space at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico."
Sarah Simeonoff presented, "For my grandchildren”: Indigenizing Risk Assessment on the Kodiak Archipelago."

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