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Mark Moritz, professor and graduate studies chair in the Department of Anthropology, studies the transformation of African pastoral systems, specifically examining how pastoralists…

Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes. Monumenta Archaeologica 46 (2021), Cotsen Institute of…

In a recently published article in Conservation Biology, professor Mark Moritz, and colleagues explore the complications surrounding animal conservation in Africa. 

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The Department is happy to announce that Dr. Mark Moritz was recently named one of 33 new affiliates to the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning!

"The Affiliate Program…

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce our newest Department Chair, Dr. Scott McGraw.

Dr. McGraw is "an evolutionary anatomist and primate behavioralist with primary…

Congratulations to Dr. Larsen and his team who recently received the Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!

"The Cozzarelli Prize is awarded annually to…

Congratulations to doctoral student Tessa Cannon and her advisor, Dr. Scott McGraw! They recently received two grants to study simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIV).

Through the Infectious…

What is the anthropocene? When did it start?

Transdisciplinary researchers are increasingly exploring the impacts of humanity on the environment including classifying these markers as the…

During Dr. Erin Moore's Fall 2020 course Anthropology, Public Health, and Human Rights, students conducted a collaborative, digital ethnography of the pandemic. At a time when the entire…