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Scarlett Engle (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) accepted a position as the Tribal Relations Specialist at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. This is a new position for the Forest, so Scarlett will be creating the program and ensuring that the Forest upholds its trust responsibility to tribes and that tribal community...

Gerorgia Butcher (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) with sponsorship by the CU Graduate School attended the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Workshop In Washington D.C. The CASE workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the role of science in policymaking and the...

Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship. The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. Fellows must use the award for the final year of writing the dissertation.

Professor Fernando Villanea featured on a Colorado Public Radio episode of ¿Quién Are We?. This episode explores how growing up in beautiful, tropical Costa Rica led Professor Villanea to fall in love with the biology of nature. And it’s led him down a path of passion, success and a yearning...

Rachel Coppock (BA Anthropology in Progress) was named one of College of Arts and Sciences 2024 Jacob Van Ek Scholars as she prepares to graduate next month as an anthropology major. The award recognizes exceptional undergraduates who excel in their academics and meaningfully contribute to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ...

Professor Michelle Sauther's co-authored article, "Environmental Effects on Nocturnal Encounters of Two Sympatric Bushbabies, Galago moholi and Otolemur crassicaudatus, in a High-Altitude South African Northern Mistbelt Montane Habitat by Michelle L Sauther et al. has just been published in the International Journal of Primatology. This article is part of a...

Griëtte van der Heide (Biological Anthropology, Phd Candidate) publishes, "Flexibility in the Diet and Feeding Ecology of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Aotus." in Owl Monkeys. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Abstract Current evidence indicates that owl monkeys ( Aotus spp.) have species-rich, flexible diets. They can switch resources seasonally, consume...

Urmi Bhattacheryya (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress), Adi Prakash (PhD Cultural Anthropology in Progress), and Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) awarded Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Summer Fellowship. Urmi will use the fellowship to aid her summer fieldwork across three cities in India. The fieldwork is an...

Andrea Steffes-Tuttle (MA Cultural Anthropology in Progress) successfully defended her masters thesis "Meaning and Morality: How Tools of Business Ethics Shape Worker Subjectivities" on April 9th. Her committee members were Professors Alison Cool (advisor), Carla Jones, and Carole McGranahan.

Seamus Klingsporn (BA Anthropology in Progress) was selected for an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant to support his research for his honors anthropology seniorthesis, "Weightlifting and Masculinities: An Ethnographic Study of Weightlifting among Young Men in Boulder." His UROP and honors advisor is Alison Cool.