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Congratulations to Anthropology PhD student Luxin Yin on the publication of her latest research in BMJ Medical Humanities! Her new paper, titled "Looking back to look ahead: a BERTopic-assisted…
Samantha Kirgesner, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at The Ohio State University, has received a highly competitive Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship(opens in new window),…
Newly admitted graduate student Mehrab Hasan won the Patricia Whitten Prize at this year's meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology for his…
Congratulations to Kaita Gurian on receiving the prestigious Albert A. Dahlberg Paper Competition award at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) conference…
Huge congratulations to Lauren Hayden on being selected as a finalist for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Award to Poland for academic year 2026-2027. The Fulbright Program is an…
The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology is seeing remarkable growth in its forensic anthropology program, reflecting rising student interest in hands-on, applied science. What began…
Lauren Hayden, a 3rd year PhD student, was awarded the Mildred Trotter Prize by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) for her outstanding poster presentation, "Association…
Anthropology GTA Kelsey Shearer was one of 21 GTAs to receive a 2025-2026 Graduate Associate Teaching Award from the Graduate School! The Graduate Associate Teaching Award is Ohio State’s highest…
Anthropology graduate student, Nina Wilson, has been awarded the 2026 Beatrice Medicine Travel Award Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship honors the life and legacy of Dr…
Jude Snowden recently presented at the Office of Outreach and Engagement's annual Graduate Student Poster Competition which is part of their Community Partnership Breakfast. Jude's poster, which…
In their new, open-access study in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology by Jacob Scheinblum, Dr. Scott McGraw, Kaita Gurian, and Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg offer fresh insight into…
We are pleased to announce that two of our graduate students, Nagarathna Balakrishna and Allyson Simon have both received OSU’s Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship!
The…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
As we head into the summer, we are thrilled to take a moment and recognize all those who graduated from our department this Spring!
Congratulations Dr. Shane Scaggs! We are thrilled to see…
In their new article, published in the American Journal of Human Biology, Piperata et al. investigates the biocultural determinants of complementary feeding (CF) practices among 30 mothers in…
We are thrilled to highlight a new article published by faculty, graduate, and undergrdaduate students in Social Science & Medicine!
In their new article Moore et al. spotlight how TikTok is…
Once again, we are thrilled to highlight a new article written by PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel for FoodAntrhopology's blog!
In "Traditional Foods Forum: A Day of Indigenous Knowledge at the…
We are thrilled to highlight a new article published by PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel in Anthropology News!
In "Negotiating Space and Taste in Los Angeles’ Oaxacan Community…
We are pleased to highlight a new article published by members of our department in PLOS One!
"Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition -…
For our first episode of the year, our new host, Nagarathna Balakrishna, sits down with fellow PhD candidate and former podcast host, Andrew Mitchell (mitchell.13@osu.edu), to discuss his…
PhD Student in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), member of Dr. Piperata's Human Biological Anthropology Laboratory as well as the MIcrobiome Project, Ana Carolina Brito was…
We are pleased to highlight a new article published by members of our department in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology!
Authored by PhD candidate Kaita Gurian and faculty…
Doctoral candidate Andrew Mitchel was recently featured in an article by The Takeout, "10 Burrito Styles You Need To Try"! In the article, Andrew, along with LA Times Columnist and author of "Taco…
Chelsea Hunter, 2024 graduate from the Department of Anthropology, was recently featured in an article by the Ohio Sea Grant College Program!
"Chelsea Hunter, one of Ohio Sea Grant’s six…
We are pleased to announce that PhD Candidates Emma Brzezinski and Samantha Kirgesner have both received OSU’s Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship!
Emma will use the award to…
For fall break we have a double feature! The two latest episodes of A Story of Us are now available on SoundCloud, Apple podcasts and Spotify…
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Sydney Hunter on receiving the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from The National Science Foundation!
Sydney’s dissertation…
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with Ohio State PhD Candidate Harold "Butch" Wright. They discuss readings on commensality, social network analysis, and …
Join us for our latest episode of A Story of Us, available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcast, and Spotify!
This episode, Andrew Mitchel sits…
On September 6th, doctoral candidate Steven Rhue presented his dissertation research at the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conference in Cascais, Portugal.
As part of the Early…
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Kaita Gurian on receiving the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from The National Science Foundation!
The grant, titled “Comparing…
We just published the Careers for Graduate Students web page, which features several resources, including a list of highly relevant career resources for graduate students, a Tableau visualization…
Check out the newest A Story Of Us interview! It is available on SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. In this episode, Andrew sits down with Maddison Elliott, who is graduating with her MA this…
PhD Candidate Andrew Mitchel has published a piece in Anthropology News entitled Taking Photos of Tacos, check it out!
The anthropology graduate program is featured in the Innovation in Action series of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). It describes how the program was developed, the key features,…
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Cohen and PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel, who have jointly published a new article in Teaching Anthropology entitled Musical Interludes and Teaching Laboratory:…
We are highlighting the outstanding work of our students and faculty who attended/presented at the annual American Association of Biological Association (AABA) meetings in Los Angeles, California…
Congratulations to Tessa Cannon from our department for winning the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service!! This honor culminates her work in mentorship with students, and comes with a …
Congratulations to PhD student Nagarathna Balakrishna who presented the poster "The behavioral resilience of Semnopithecus johnii in the fragmented landscape of Valparai, Western Ghats,…
Check out the newest FoodAnthro blog: "Food And Expertise: My Research on Oaxacan Food" by Andrew Mitchel. He is a 4th year PhD candidate working on success, adaptation and…
Please check out PhD student Emma Brzezinski's first authored paper, entitled Sex differences in workload in medieval Poland: Patterns of asymmetry and biomechanical adaptation in the upper limb…
Congratulations to PhD student Tessa Cannon and our Chair Scott McGraw on the publication, entitled Simian immunodeficiency virus and storage…
Please help us congratulate PhD student Grace Conrad on her first publication, entitled Clovis bone versus stone weapon tip penetration: Thinking about relative costs and benefits…
The newest A Story of Us interview is out! Listen and subscribe to the podcast on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
This episode,…
PhD student Kaita Gurian has two recent publications!
The first is Relating metric crown dimensions to underlying internal daily secretion rates in antimeric premolars, co…
Congratulations to Shane Scaggs, who has received the Presidential Fellowship from The Ohio State Graduate School! The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate…
We are highlighting OSU participants at the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Toronto
Butch Wright
Between Two Worlds: Determining the Appropriateness of…
Professor Mark Moritz and PhD candidates Chelsea Hunter and Ben Cross published Artificial Pastoral Systems: A Review of Agent-Based Modeling Studies of Pastoral Systems in the Pastoralism:…
PhD Student Maddison Elliott recently presented a poster at the Entomological Society of America Conference held in National Harbor, Maryland from November 5 to 8. The poster is entitled…
PhD Candidate Andrew Mitchel was recently featured in an article and interview with WNYC about Dominican baseball, as the Dominican Winter League played their first ever games in the U.S. in New…
PhD student Steven Rhue and Dr. Barbara Piperata are two authors on a recent piece entitled The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well-being. This first of…