Accomplishments: Department of Anthropology
Debra L. Martin (Anthropology) was awarded NSF support ($300,611) for three years to preserve and conserve a historic mission church and cemetery in Belen, New Mexico (circa 1850). The project, "Biological Impacts of Colonial Practices: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of Health and Demography" will use three field seasons to excavate, analyze,…
A number of undergraduate students were recognized during the office of undergraduate research (OUR) spring 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium. They include:
Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio (Public Policy and Leadership), who was awarded Best Podium Presentation Award in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Her presentation was Police…
Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology and World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded first place for the XLVI Lambda Alpha National Senior Scholarship Award. The undergraduate scholarship of $5,000 is awarded annually to the top applicant and selected by the National Executive Council members of the Lambda Alpha National…
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) will be a Visiting Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School in the spring 2022 semester. He will be working on his project: “Dead Letter”: Animal Law, Activism, and Mexican Politics," which addresses animal law in Mexico through an ethnographic lens.
Alan Simmons (Anthropology) is co-author of an article just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The piece "No Evidence for Widespread Island Extinction after Pleistocene Hominin Arrival," takes a global perspective on the impact that humans had on endemic island faunas. He is a Distinguished Professor emeritus.
Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology, World Languages and Cultures, Honors College) presented her paper "'Our language do not die, they are killed': Indigenismo and its Effects on Indigenous Language Revitalization" at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.…
Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology, World Languages and Cultures, Honors College) is the recipient of the Vista Group Outstanding Senior Award. Carrying a $1,000 scholarship, this is a distinguished award given to a 51ԹϺ College of Liberal Arts senior displaying exceptional achievement, leadership, and service. A member of the Honors College,…
Alan Simmons (Anthropology) presently is in Cyprus on a Fulbright award. While this has had to be modified due to COVID-19, he initially will spend two months at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute working on a monograph of his long-term National Science Foundation- (and other-) funded project at the Neolithic (ca. 9,000 years…
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented a paper based on his project on animal rights/welfare activism in Ciudad Juárez, México, as part of a human rights panel, in the Society for Latin American Studies Virtual Conference. In this presentation, he explored how animal rights/welfare activists engage in discourses of human rights in their…
Kari Goold, Peter Gray (both Anthropology) and Reynafe Aniga (Psychology) recently published an article "Sports under Quarantine: A Case Study of Major League Baseball in 2020" in the journal Social Sciences. Goold and Aniga are McNair Scholars.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published the article "The Politics of Saving Dogs in Mexico" in the "General Anthropology Division Bulletin." This article summarizes his most recent research project that focuses on the animal welfare/rights activists working in Ciudad Juárez, México.
Barbara J. Roth (Anthropology), along with coauthor and E. Charles Adams of the University of Arizona, had their book Agent of Change, the Deposition and Meaning of Ash in the Past published by Berghann Books, 2021. Roth is lead editor and published two chapters in the volume. It explores how prehistoric groups in North…