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Undergraduate Advisory Tiffany Terneny on Teaching

March 19, 2025

I love helping students broaden their horizons through my Anthropology classes. Classes like “Cultural Diversity in the Modern World,” “Anthropology of Death,” and “Lost Worlds and Crystal Skulls” (a University core), allow students an opportunity to gain perspective outside their experience that will benefit them in the future no matter...

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Reframing Human Evolution: The Myth of the Obstetrical Dilemma

March 18, 2025

Dr. Anna Warrener published a paper in Evolutionary Anthropology that discusses the evolution of the human pelvis. She argues that biological anthropologists have used a dubious evolutionary model, the Obstetrical Dilemma, to explain why humans sometimes have difficult childbirth, and advocates for an expanded framework called the Multifactor Pelvis. This...

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Motherhood and Kinship: Dr. Christine Sargent’s Forthcoming Monograph

March 18, 2025

Dr. Christine Sargent is wrapping up several publications and is waiting for copy edits on her forthcoming monograph Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan, which will be out with Rutgers University Press in Fall 2025 or Winter 2026. She is stuck in the proverbial quicksand with...

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Breaking Stigmas: Cannabis & Art

March 18, 2025

Dr. Marty Otañez and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, of the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, published the co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. Chapter contributors cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and...

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Medical Borders: Latinx Immigrants and Medical Exclusion

March 18, 2025

Dr. Sarah Horton recently published an article in Social Science & Medicine that showed that as Latinx immigrants began arriving in Colorado’s mountain resort area-- a relatively “new destination” for settlement-- staff at a public hospital conceptualized them as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image , implementing spatializing...

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Digital Twins in Archaeology

March 18, 2025

In an article in Scientific Reports , Dr. Jamie Hodgkins and colleagues created a digital reconstruction of a 10,000-year-old infant burial in an Italian cave, allowing researchers to examine the site as it was before excavation. She described how the use of digital twin technology in archaeology has had a...

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Unearthing Mesoamerican Art: Looting and Migration

March 18, 2025

Dr. Christopher Beekman recently contributed to Collecting Mesoamerican Art Before 1940 (Getty Research Institute, 2024), in which he discussed the history of looting and trafficking antiquities out of western Mexico. Members of the art community shaped the market for these objects around a “brand” that appealed to specifically West Coast...

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