Anthropology

On April 18th Rachael Heller will be...

On April 18th Rachael Heller will be presenting her paper "Leeroy Jenkins; Identity Formation, Investment, and Social Structure of a Guild in World of Warcraft" at the Pop Culture Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Rachael Heller

Rachael Heller will be presenting her research on Blizzard's World of Warcraft this November at the American Anthropological Association annual conference in San Jose as part of a poster session the importance of undergraduate student research.

Barbara Klessig

Barbara has been accepted to the University of Exeter for her PhD. Her research will focus on textiles, tools, and experimenting with recreated tools and how they functioned.

Barbara Klessig

Barbara Klessig has been invited to teach an experimental archaeology workshop in textiles at the University College Dublin,Ireland May 18th to students in their MSc in Experimental Archaeology.

Barbara Klessig

Barbara has been invited to present at the Experimental Archaeology Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, November 16-18, 2017. The title of her presentation is "Experimental Archaeology: Experiments in String, Stone, Wood and Clay".

Claudia Chávez-Argüelles

Dr. Chávez-Argüelles won the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Award 2017 in the category of Best Dissertation in Ethnology and Social Anthropology, awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) - the maximum authority in these disciplines in Mexico.

Marissa Ramsier

Professor of Anthropology Marissa Ramsier was recently invited to the Jacksonville Zoo in Jacksonville, Fla., to help examine a gorilla that was suspected to be deaf. The visit was featured on NBC's Today's Show.