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Monika Wanis won The Gil Kushner Memorial Award to attend the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting and also received the 1st place Poster Presentation Award for her poster titled, “Traditional Health Seeking Practices Among Rural and Urban Negev Bedouin Populations in Israel.” The Gil Kushner Memorial Award goes to only one student and “honors an international scholar whose […]

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Our Doctoral student Nikki Henderson won the Society for Anthropological Sciences award to attend the recent joint meeting with the Society for Applied Anthropology. Only two students received this honor. Nikki organized a session at the conference and presented the paper, “Consensus and Contention in Cultural Models of Substance Use / Misuse in the US and Brazil.” […]

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Dr. Keith Jacobi was awarded the Outstanding Commitment to Students Award this morning at the Honors Day event for Undergraduates. This is a marvelous, well-deserved honor awarded for a lifetime of excellent teaching, advising, and overall mentorship. Congratulations on this fantastic award! […]

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Dr. Stephanie McClure has been offered and has accepted our advertised position of Assistant Professor with expertise in Medical Anthropologist and will be joining the Department of Anthropology this August. Welcome, Stephanie! […]

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Look who’s featured on the cover of the current issue of American Archaeology—our own Dr. Alex Tokovinine! His contribution to the 3-D scanning project of the world-famous Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway is described on p. 23: “…In 2007, Fast [William Fasho, Bowditch Professor at Harvard University] hired post-doctoral student Alexandre Tokovinine to conduct on-site trials. They were […]

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Doctoral student Larry Monocello has been awarded the Critical Languages Scholarship from the American Councils for International Education, a highly competitive program with a ~10% acceptance rate. He will be spending eight weeks in an intensive, immersive language program at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea from June 5-August 5, fully funded by the […]

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Our own Martina Thomas (PhD alum 2016, medical anthropology) has recently been promoted from postdoctoral fellow to Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of History at Juniata College (PA). Great work and congratulations, Tina! […]

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