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New Article in the Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development!
In their new article Rhue et al. characterize household water insecurity in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil; an urban metropolitan located at the mouth of the Amazon River where water is abundant…
Incoming Graduate Student, Carlos Carvalhoal, and the St. Nicholas Excavation
Fieldwork at the St. Nicholas excavation, at Szent Miklós Hill in Székelyudvarhely, led by the Haáz Rezső Museum in collaboration with American students from the University of South Florida and…
New Article in Science! America's lost dogs
Professor Emeritus Paul Sciulli, was part of a large team that recently published a massive paper in Science on the origins of dogs in the Americas! In their article “America’s lost dogs" the…
Empowering Youth Visions for Sustainable and Resilient Futures
Faculty member Anna Willow and her colleagues Jake Boswell and Megan Jordan recently received an OSU Sustainability Research Seed Grant! Entitled “Empowering Youth Visions for Sustainable and…
Alumni Lisa Beiswenger and faculty member Joy McCorriston were recently featured in the news!
Alumni Lisa Beiswenger, now a faculty member at Saint Francis University, was recently featured in a New York Times article looking at the amount of goods and items abandoned by college students…
New Article in PLOS One!
McCorriston et al. (2025) presents a comprehensive archaeological and environmental study of 371 prehistoric stone monuments in Dhofar, Oman, revealing how monument construction by ancient…
Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey Start Work on a New Project Funded by an OSU Sustainability Institute Seed Grant
According to the World Bank, 3.5 billion people across the planet lack access to ‘safely managed sanitation services.’ This isn’t just a problem in the Global South. In many parts of the US,…
STEAMM Rising Program
On June 5th, the Department of Anthropology will host 100 Columbus City School teachers as part of the STEAMM Rising program at OSU. It will be a full day of activities where teachers discuss the…
New Article in Royal Society Open Science
In their new article, published in Royal Society Open Science, Tverskoi, Scaggs, and Downey present a complex adaptive systems (CAS) model to explore how labour reciprocity and normative reasoning…