Spotlight Spring 2024

Faculty Spotlight Spring 2024

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:24:49 +0000

Faculty Spotlight Spring 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/28/2024 - 10:24

Lauren Hosek (Biological Anthropolgy, Professor)

Dr. Lauren Hosoek is a historical bioarchaeologist and her research integrates osteological data from human skeletal remains with archaeological and historical evidence. She utilizes these intersecting sources to examine how large-scale social phenomena such as religious ideology and institutional practices become embodied through ritual and activity across the life course. Her research projects span from early medieval Central Europe to the 19^th-century American West. Most recently, She has been working on a community-based project in the Denver area exploring the health and ritual practice of the 19^th-century Catholic Sisters of Loretto in collaboration with the living Loretto Community.

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Alumni Spotlight Spring 2024

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Jamie Forde (PhD Anthropology 2015)

Dr. Forde is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Trained as an anthropological archaeologist at CU, he employs both art historical and archaeological methods in studying Indigenous Mesoamerican material and visual culture during the periods surrounding colonial encounter with Europeans. His work has been focused in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, particularly the site of Achiutla, where he has directed an interdisciplinary field project. His research has been published in journals including Ancient Mesoamerica, Colonial Latin American Review, and Ethnohistory.

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Undergraduate Spotlight Spring 2024

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Skylar Davidson (Anthropology Minor in Progress)

Skylar is a 4th-year student at CU Boulder, pursuing an Anthropology minor. After taking Primate Life History with Dr. Michelle Sauther, she developed a passion for Primatology and excitedly added an ANTH minor. In the summer of 2023, Skylar traveled abroad to Vietnam with Dr. Covert and Dr. O’Brien to study its diverse ecosystem and native primates. Being in Vietnam developed Skylar’s deep love for the endangered Pygmy Loris and she plans to pursue a Master’s and PhD in Biological Anthropology. She intends to lead conservation research for this species and find her way back to Vietnam.

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Graduate Student Spotlight Spring 2024

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Chu May Paing (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate)

Chu's dissertation titled "Intense Engagements: Social Media Activism in the Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar" looks at how ordinary Myanmar people's political engagement is fueled by circulation of certain public feelings on social media spaces in the aftermath of the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. Her dissertation explores how the intense circulation of images and speech online creates an atmosphere in which social and political ideals for a new Myanmar are constantly written and rewritten.

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