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Dr. Sean Downey was recently invited to present his research on adaptive self-organization in swidden agriculture at the 2025 Euro-CASE annual conference in Austria.

“Indigenous societies…

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Dr. Jeffrey Cohen recently published in The Conversation, promoting his work in Oaxaca, Mexico on chapulines (seasonal toasted grasshoppers). In Oaxaca chapulines are…

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Eating Grasshoppers, Dr Jeffrey H. Cohen’s new ethnography from University of Texas Press, explores the cultural, economic, and culinary significance of chapulines (toasted grasshoppers) in Oaxaca…

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Dr. Anna Willow’s new article, Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times, explores a shift in anthropological thought that embraces the postapocalyptic as a lived…

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In their new article, Wright and Piperata explore the challenges of using Brazil’s standardized food insecurity scale (EBIA) in Parque das Tribos, a multiethnic, peri-urban Indigenous community in…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…