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This past week Bloomberg published a Q&A with Nick Kawa, Associate Professor of Anthropology, about his new book After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste. The discussion delves into…
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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…
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
A computer-science degree is no longer a golden ticket. Stanford and MIT…
Recently highlighted in the Fall 2026 issue of the Ohio State Alumni Magazine, education at Ohio State Marion extends far beyond traditional classroom walls. The entire campus…
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),…
New research from The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology sheds new light on one of the biggest questions in human evolution: How did our earliest ancestors move through the…
Elizabeth A. Holdsworth, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She applied for a Spark Award to support her project “Daily Milk Composition and Infant Growth.”
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A new find has emerged from the local soil: the remains of a young individual, who researchers suspect may have held a religious or clerical role, marking an incredibly rare and significant first…
What do American ranchers, Mongolian herders, and Navajo shepherds all have in common? They are all pastoralists.
The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands…
Nick Passalacqua, associate professor of anthropology, discusses how anthropologists recover and analyze skeletal remains to build biological profiles including age, sex, stature, and ancestry. He…
The study reflects more than a decade of work by Associate Professor of Anthropology Sean Downey, with support from an NSF CAREER award, and finds that social norms in small-scale societies can…
Associate Professor Sean Downey (Department of Anthropology) has been selected as a Writing Resident at the [Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS)] one of Europe's most prestigious…
A study co-authored with Scott Maddux (University of North Texas Health Science Center), Robert Franciscus (University of Iowa), Anastasiya Kharlamova and Lyudmila Trut (Institute of Cytology and…
A team of scientists that includes four OSU anthropologists - Mackie O’Hara, Emma Lagan, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, and Scott McGraw - published a paper in the prestigious journal
Julian Amedmariam was just awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship! The scholarship, which is $4500, will support Julian's continued work analyzing interview…
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…
A new essential resource in forensic anthropology is on the way! Ethics and Professionalism in Forensic Anthropology (Second Edition) is set to release April 14, offering an updated and…
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…
Clark Larsen was awarded the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology. The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement…
Congratulations to Grace Calhoun, a 2019 Anthropological Sciences (B.S.) major at OSU, who is now completing her PhD at the University of Florida. Her presentation, “Using 3D Printing to Investigate…
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…
Dr. Jeff Cohen's book Eating Grasshoppers was recently featured in Ohio State's Alumni Magazine. In his book, Dr. Cohen tells the history of chalupines which are a…
Dr. Mark Moritz was recently featured in OSU News for his work challenging common misconceptions about deserts and other rangelands. Often viewed as barren or unproductive, these landscapes,…
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…
The Department of Anthropology in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences has officially opened the doors of the new Forensic Anthropology Laboratory — a milestone that furthers the hands-on…
We are thrilled to announce that Nora Warnick has received a substantial Undergraduate Research Scholarship!
Nora’s project is a craniodental comparison of the size of two different…
The goal of this short course is to familiarize students and professionals with the identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and siding both…
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…
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 “The emergence and…
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…
Dr. Cohen was recently featured in OSU News for his work and new book on cahpulines in Oaxaca, Mexico!
Read the full article here!
Congratulations on your outstanding work…
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…
October 2, 2025
The Department of Anthropology in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences has officially opened the doors of the new Forensic…
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen recently published in The Conversation, promoting his work in Oaxaca, Mexico on chapulines (seasonal toasted grasshoppers). In Oaxaca chapulines are…
The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. This position builds on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In this episode of A Story of Us, Nagarathna Balakrishna chats with renowned paleoartist John Gurche as he candidly reflects on his early journey into reconstructing our ancestors, shares how he…
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…
Dr. Douglas Crews and his colleagues Kathryn E. Marklein (University of Louisville), Mario Novak (Institute for Anthropological Research - Croatia) and Lucie Biehler-Gomez (University of Milan -…
Are you 18-29 years old, enrolled in college, as an undergraduate, at one of the following schools: Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, or Columbus State Community, and…
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…
Former OSU Department of Anthropology members Isabel and Corey Maggiano, now faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia, were recently featured in the 7th volume…
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…
In this episode, we sit down with Julia Frost (frost6603@gmail.com), an undergraduate in the Anthropology Department at The Ohio State University, to talk all things archaeology, art, and ancient…
"From better career prospects to better relationships, learning about anthropology can do a lot for you"
Have you ever considered taking a course in anthropology…
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…
As of January 2025, Dr. Sean S. Downey has been appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Human Ecology, a leading journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of human-environment interactions…
Discussion led by David Hibler (EEOB) and Shane Scaggs (Anthropology, PhD candidates at The Ohio State University) Monday 7 April at 1-2 pm in 4094 Smith Laboratory
Presentation by Dr. Mike Rayo, Associate Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
In this episode, Dr. Habiba Chirchir, a biological anthropologist, discusses her research on skeletal anatomy and behavior and its implications for understanding human evolution. She explores what…
On March 5th, Dr. Habiba Chirchir delivered a public lecture as part of the American Museum of Natural History’s Sci Café series, sponsored by the Leakey Foundation!
Dr. Chirchir discussed…
The wicked science team has launched a weekly Wicked Hour for all who are interested in wicked problems / science / students! It is an opportunity to discuss work in progress, brainstorm…
The Wicked Science team has launched a weekly Wicked Hour for all who are interested in wicked problems / science / students.
It is an opportunity to discuss work in progress, brainstorm…
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 -…
Congratulations to Arvind Nair and Code Beschler for their outstanding performance at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!
Arvind Nair, mentored by Dr. Rob Cook, took 1st place in the …
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Alumni Panel and Internship Fair this past Monday, February 24th. More than 40 undergraduate and graduate students attended the event and explored…
We have new brand system including logo, color scheme, and typography.
All credit goes to Tim Ritz.
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…
Dr. Piperata recently contributed to two papers, one in American Anthropologist and the other in Practicing Anthropology, that highlight the importance of mixed methods and biocultural approaches…
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…
Department of Anthropology faculty member, Dr. Mark Moritz, contributes to the launch of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) International Curriculum! …
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…
Anthropology alumni Annika Doneghy received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in Cultural Anthropology!
Annika is a dull degree MPH/PhD student…
For the Wicked Science course in spring 2024, several students developed final projects in the format of a “zine” or DIY booklet to tell the story of a wicked problem using an eclectic mix of visual…
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…
Check out Dr. Guatelli-Steinberg’s latest article in Nature: News and Views! Growing up slowed down for an early Homo individual
“Human children pair fast growth of a…
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…
Another episode of A Story of Us interview is out! Listen and subscribe to the podcast on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify!
In this…
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…
In the course ANTHROP 3005: Careers with Anthropology students interview alumni from our undergraduate and graduate programs about their studies, work, and careers, and how they use anthropology…
As part of their final project in ANTHROP 5505: Wicked Science, Ryan Burrows, Blue Lerner, Tobin Provenzale, and Lindsey Shimoda worked together to update this wicked science website.
…Maddison Elliott after successful defense of her MA thesis.Maddison Elliot has successfully defended her MA thesis in anthropology and completed the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in…
Congratulations to Grace Peters, whose completed undergraduate thesis is entitled "Relative dental eruption and mechanically challenging diets in colobines and cercopithecines!" Grace traveled to…
Dr. Scott McGraw of our department is featured as a co-author in two recent publications advocating for red colobus monkey conservation in places like the Taï Forest of Ivory Coast in West Africa…
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…
Congrats to Abby Scheeser, who successfully defended her undergraduate honors thesis entitled "Geographic Species Variation in Hominin Cranial Morphology." Abby is interested in understanding this…
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…
Congratulations to Piper Nickoli, who successfully defended her thesis entitled "Medieval Agricultural Practice and Exchange at Arpa Village, Armenia." She presented this work at the Spring…
PhD Candidate Andrew Mitchel has published a piece in Anthropology News entitled Taking Photos of Tacos, check it out!
Congratulations to Madelin Zi Ching, who successfully defended her thesis for research honors in Medical Anthropology today! It is entitled Patient and Provide Perception of Chronic Urological…
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 Finn Lerner, an Anthropological Sciences major, presented her senior thesis project at both the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum and the Spring Undergraduate Research…
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 Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, who was awarded the Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award from the Dental Anthropology Society at last week’s meeting of the American…
Congrats to Dr. Erin Moore, whose project Women Who Pay Their Own Brideprice? The Shifting Politics of Intimate Exchange in Uganda has received the International Research and Scholar Grant! This…
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 …
Cassie Davies served as an intern at the PAST Foundation in Columbus in the summer of 2022 and landed a job as a research assistant there. Cass Blair interviewed Cassie about her experiences. You…
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…
We have created a LinkedIn group to stay in touch with future alumni from our programs and to connect with professional wicked scientists in the wild.
Join us, stay in touch, and share your…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a groundbreaking undergraduate certificate program at The Ohio State University – the Wicked Science Certificate. Designed to challenge…
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 Dr. Angela Harden who has been awarded the seed grant Undergraduate Advanced Research and Experiential Training in Forensic Science for Undergraduate Advanced Research and…
Interested in a summer field school? OSU's department offers a month-long field school in Pickaway County, 20 minutes from Columbus! You will learn and work with pros and help to grow our…
We have a listserv for wicked scientists at The Ohio State University, i.e., Wicked Buckeyes.
The listserv is used to share events, resources, and opportunities for folks interested in…
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,…
“Wicked problems”: Government and nonprofit agencies address complex challenges with assistance from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Rapid Innovation for Public Impact course.
Meet…
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:…
Ohio State News recently interviewed Dr. Scott McGraw, chair of Department of Anthropology, about our new forensic anthropology undergraduate major. Existing and planned coursework in this major…
Program is first of its kind in the country
For podcast listeners in the United States, true crime is wildly popular. According to the Pew Research Center, 41% of listeners ages 18-29 listen to…
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…
First-year PhD student Nina Wilson presented yesterday, 11/1, at the Engaged Scholarship Symposium Autumn 2023!! Her poster, entitled Collaborative Research Methods: Rethinking…
We are excited to announce that PhD Candidate Kaita Gurian has been selected as a recipient of OSU’s Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship!
Kaita’s dissertation will assess…
The 2024 Slavia Field School in Giecz, Poland is still accepting applications, but spots are filling up! Ohio State students can receive on-campus credit and will receive pragmatic osteological…
The Ohio State Alumni Magazine today published a feature on 2019 Anthropology BA Gretchen Klingler, who works as a Post Commander for Veterans of Foreign Wars, entitled She uses her pure…
We are excited to announce that the DEM3 Anthropology Research and Development Fund has awarded the first research grant to an undergraduate student in the OSU Department of Anthropology! The…
Check out the newest edition of the A Story of Us podcast presented by The Anthropology Public Outreach Program at The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology with our lecturer…
Please check out Dr. Jeffrey Cohen and PhD Candidate Andrew Mitchel's new piece in the Journal of Global Health entitled Evaluating the indigenous response to COVID-19 in rural Oaxaca,…
Please check out the new Now at Ohio State Podcast featuring PhD candidate Tessa Cannon entitled How Social Entrepreneurship is Changing Our World. Cannon is an Ohio State PhD…
We are excited to announce the 2024 Slavia Field School in Giecz, Poland. Ohio State students can receive on-campus credit and will receive pragmatic osteological experience via excavation,…
Please check out Dr. Richard Yerkes new chapter entitled Faunal Analysis in the new book Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti…
Please join us in congratulating Chelsea Hunter for being awarded a Knauss fellowship, which is a one-year paid opportunity for current and recent graduates from advanced degree…
Please check out Dr. Julie Field's brand new paper entitled Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions! Here is…
On September 5th, the wicked science team successfully organized the kick-off event.
Here is what the Battelle Center and Student Communities Of Practice and Engagement (SCOPE) programming…
Check out PhD Candidate Andrew Mitchel's newest article on the history of Mexican food in the United States. In it he explores the change over time of this foodway during…
We are excited to be featured on Around The Oval for our approved and first-of-its kind forensic anthropology program in the United States! Check out the story in Around the Oval!…
PhD Candidate Tessa Cannon was recently featured in the OSU newspaper The Lantern for her organization For The Love of Primates' work to obtain and open a primate sanctuary in in Central Ohio. You…
Check out the newest edition of the A Story of Us podcast presented by The Anthropology Public Outreach Program at The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology with our newest faculty hire…
The new DEM3 Anthropology Research and Development Fund provides support for research and conference related expenses, including travel, equipment, supplies, lodging, meals, and…
Nick Kawa recently appeared on the Morning Edition of NPR to discuss the selection by geologists of the timeframe for the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch presented by human intervention in…
Our very own Mark Moritz and Chelsea Hunter just published a collaborative piece in Human Ecology about pastoralism and livestock population growth! You can read the complete article pdf.…
Reading more about the ongoing work in the field by our graduate students!
You can view their biographies below or on our Instagram page.
Andrew Mitchel
Andrew spent a month…
For information on this new major, contact our Undergraduate Advisor, Cameron Beason (614) 292-6961.
Please check out Dr. Douglas Crews' TEDx entitled Evolutionary Perspectives on Illness and Medicine! Evolutionary Medicine explores our evolved biology as underlying disease and illness in today’s…
Drs. Mark Moritz and Nicholas C. Kawa have found that the intricacies of today’s world have led to a rise in so-called “wicked problems,” ones that are complex and political in nature. These problems…
Franny Lazarus from Ohio State News wrote a piece about our Graduate interdisciplinary specialization in Wicked Science, which helps students tackle complex problems.
It also features…
The Council of Academic Affairs has approved the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Wicked Sciences in their meeting on March 1, 2023.
No additional level of review or approval is…
PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel sits down with Dr. Scott McGraw to discuss primatology, how to teach about primates to undergraduate students, the role and importance of teeth in the study of…
Dr. Nick Kawa was recently featured in a video posted by the College of Arts and Sciences.
In the video, Dr. Kawa discusses his interest in understanding how human cultures mediate how we…
OSU Arts and Sciences Young Alumni Achievement Award
Gretchen Klingler is the Veterans Outreach Manager for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), a bipartisan 501(c)3…
Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes. Monumenta…
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…
While doing archaeological cultural resource management in Guam, doctoral candidate Kyle Riordan had the opportunity to present testimony before the Legislature of Guam. Alongside Chamorro…
On April 13, Slow Food Columbus and the Anthropology Public Outreach Program completed their spring 2021 lecture series titled "Adaptation and Resilience: Food, Food Security, and Food Systems in…
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…
Dr. Mark Anthony Arceño successfully completed his degree requirements in December, having defended and submitted his dissertation “Changing [Vitivini]Cultures in Ohio, USA, and Alsace, France: An…
Last week, Dr. Joy McCorriston was interviewed as a part of the Middle East Studies Center's podcast "Keys to Understanding the Middle East." Dr. McCorriston discussed her research in Yemen and…
Last week, the "Seeking Good, Clean, And Fair Food For All" lecture series, hosted through a partnership between the Department's Anthropology Public Outreach Program and Slow Food Columbus held…
Despite the time we all spend in courses, have you ever felt that some of your questions about succeeding in higher education, at Ohio State and beyond, were left unanswered? The Department of…
Fluted projectile points were used like a “peacock’s feathers”
People living in southern Arabia some 8,000 years ago created intricate stone weapons that were not just useful, but designed to …
Incoming Anthropology undergraduate Naa Dromo Korley was nominated for the 2020 Athlete Award presented by The Columbus Dispatch & Encova Insurance. The Columbus Dispatch & Encova Insurance…
Talking to children about the ongoing pandemic is not an easy task. Fortunately, there are tools to help. Graduate student and biological anthropologist Taylor Tomu co-authored a free digital book…
On Sunday, May 3, The Ohio State University will be hosting a virtual commencement for the Class of 2020. At this time, the Department of Anthropology is excited to graduate 54 undergraduates from…
The Academy of Arts & Sciences--founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and 60 others--is a prestigious organization that serves as both an honorary society and an independent research center…
During Tuesday afternoon’s monthly board meeting (on Zoom!) for the Anthropology Public Outreach Program (APOP), included two unexpected guests: the Department of Anthropology Chair, Dr. Kris…
Offered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Experience for Graduates (REG) grant provides supplemental funding to support the cost of a “Cultural Anthropology student’s closely…
The Tinker Field Research Grants are awarded for use for travel and field-related expenses for brief periods of pre-dissertation field research in Latin America. The grants are intended to provide…
Distinguished University Professor of anthropology Clark Larsen was awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …
“My dissertation research explores how postpartum social support affects maternal postpartum depression, and whether oxytocin mediates the relationship,” explains Emily Wolfe-Sherrie, a doctoral…
Last month, two anthropology graduate students--Malorie Albee and Sara McGuire--presented at the 34th annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum on February 28, 2020. This program, "showcases the…
Dr. Barbara Piperata receives a 3-year NSF IRES Grant to support international research for undergraduate and graduate students at OSU. The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)…
To Associate Professor Julie Field, the Pacific islands are more than just places for luxurious, tropical getaways — they’re her laboratories.
Existing in relative isolation…
Congratulations to Dr. Mandy Agnew on her receipt of a National Institute of Justice Grant for trauma-related forensic anthropology research. Dr. Agnew—an OSU Anthropology alumna—is an affiliated…
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Moritz (PI) and Dr. Ian Hamilton (EEOB/Mathematics), Dr. Rebecca Garabed (Preventive Veterinary Medicine), and Dr. Jason Thomas (Institute for Population Research) for…
Congratulations to Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg (PI), Dr. Scott McGraw (co-PI) and team for their recent award of a National Science Foundation (@NSF) Grant for their project, “Analyzing…
Congratulations to Mackie O’Hara, recipient of a Presidential Fellowship in Autumn 2019. Mackie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, and is one of eleven graduate students in the…
Congratulations to Dr. Juno Parreñas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Department of Anthropology affiliate, who has been awarded the 2019…
In a talk that Dr. Wendy Vogt gave in the Department of Anthropology on 18 October 2019, she addressed emerging global transit journeys and in particular, the journey of Central American asylum…
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Cohen for his award of a National Science Foundation grant to study the question, “Can the development of niche traditional diet become a pathway to…
On August 29, Dr. Jeffrey Cohen co-chaired a panel at the Royal Geographic Society annual conference in London, England. Dr. Cohen’s panel “Prospects in Migration Theory: What is Next?” created a…
Anthropology Graduate Student Butch Wright was one of 19 students awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the 2019-2020 Academic Year by CLAS (Center for Latin American…
Professor of anthropology Jeffrey H. Cohen joined the International Centre for Migration Policy Development and MIEUX (Migration EU experts) at a recent conference "Harnessing…
The ASOM team just completed their first Big Game Theory summer camp at the PAST Foundation.
Anthropology 5685: Summer Field School in Archaeology
3 Credit hours For any questions concerning OSU enrollment, required documents, and applications please contact:: Angel.29…
Sam Stout’s Retirement Reception
Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University
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Julie Lesnik didn’t set out to change the world using paleoanthropological research, but with her recent book, Edible Insects and Human Evolution, penchant for public talks, and recent…
Conservation efforts are becoming increasingly urgent, making Juno Parreñas' talk about orangutan conservation efforts in Sarawak timely—and the temporal scales between the epochs was indeed a…
On September, 14, Shengyu Pei, an associate professor at the South-Central University for Nationalities in Wuhan, China, gave a talk at the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Pei discussed findings…
From June 22-27, 2018, an international interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology, archaeology and soil science has taken place at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, on the topic "Soil…
A painting on display in the Metropolitan Museum captures a view of the Andes: breathtaking mountains, twisted trees, and a winding river. Without doubt, it is a beautiful view, especially to a…
On 22 February Dr. Maurizio Albahari, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, gave a lecture “Rethreading the Mediterranean: Disquieting Art and Migrant Democracy” at Mershon…