Anthropology

Marisol Cortes-Rincon

Brandy Hurtado from the Department of Anthropology was awarded the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship. She will be working under the supervision of Jamie Roscoe, CRF Director, during the spring semester.

Marisol Cortes-Rincon

Adam Forbis, Robert Gustas, and Kyle Ports from the Department of Anthropology were individually awarded the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship. They will be working under the supervision of Professor Marisol Cortes-Rincon during the spring semester.

Ariel Gruenthal

Anthropology alumni, Ariel Gruenthal, was recently published in the Journal of Forensics Science for an article she co-wrote on the topic of forensics.

Mary Scoggin

Mary Scoggin, professor of Anthroplogy, co-authored the report Tribal Corridor Management Planning: Model, Case Study, and Guide for Caltrans District 1, recently released by the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Marisol Cortes-Rincon

Dr. Marisol Cortes Rincon presented on her research at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) on April 1st, 2011. Her paper is titled “Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Settlement Survey Project: Preliminary Findings.” The research is based on her archaeological work in Belize, Central America.

Mary Glenn

May Patino and Graeson Harris-Young will present their research on mona monkeys at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' conference in Minnesota in April 2011. Their paper is titled “Comparison of Boom Calls in Cercopithecus mona in Benin and Grenada”.

Marisol Cortes-Rincon

Sandy Strayer presented her research at the Society for California Archaeology symposium on March 12th, 2011. Her paper is titled “Ribar High 2 Ground Stone Tool Analysis”.

Marisol Cortes-Rincon

The Dean's office in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences has awarded the following students with an Undergraduate Research Fellowships in the Anthropology department: David Sandrock, Uri Grunder, Graeson Harris-Young, and May Patino.

Todd Braje

Victor Golla recently published, at University of California Press, a comprehensive illustrated handbook on California’s indigenous languages entitled "California Indian Languages." This work, the first of its kind, stands to become an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languag

Alexis Celeste Bunten

Peer Reviewed Journal Publication:
Title: More like Ourselves: Indigenous Capitalism through Tourism

The American Indian Quarterly
Volume 34, Number 3, Summer 2010