Anthropology Spotlight

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

Empowering Voices: Leveraging Storytelling to Support First-Gen Lynxes This PD workshop is meant for faculty and staff to better support first-generation students at CU Denver using storytelling as a vehicle to promote student success. Friday, November 8, 2024 10-11:30am Mountain Time In person: Room 3301 CU Denver Building ( 1250...

Boulder Weekly highlights Associate Professor Marty Otañez's fascinating study on how the legalization of psychedelics for therapeutic use in Colorado affects BIPOC and low-income populations, as most individuals in clinical trials as well as those profiting from the psychedelic medical industry are white.

MA student, Nikketa Burges, repurposed her final paper for an ethnographic theory class into a powerful piece published in Deceleration.

Dr. Jamie Hodgkins and co-investigator Dr. Caley Orr talk about the discovery of a 10,000-year-old female infant burial in Italy.

Anthropology graduate students, along with Associate Professor Marty Otañez, presented at the Society of Applied Anthropology Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March. The students included: Mac Ervin, an undergraduate Anthropology student, who presented on “‘Psilocybin is like a lantern in the forest that shows you the path forward’:...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, published an article in Quaternary Science Reviews on Late Pleistocene prey mobility and its implications for Neandertal ranging behaviors. You can read the entire article here.

Courtney Manthey-Pierce, who received her MA from the Department of Anthrology, coauthored an article with her thesis advisor, Anna Warrener, Assistant Professor. The article shows that Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome may have evolved because it provides protection against fractures. They tested this hypothesis by examining rates of fracture occurrence in female...

Impactful research done by Anthropology Graduate Program Director and Professor Charles M. Musiba on the evolution of bipedal walking and the Laetoli footprints was recently featured in Scientific American: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism .

Sarah Horton, Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Anthropology, recently published an article based on interviews conducted with undocumented Mexican immigrants about their pandemic eldercare burdens. “ Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas ,” published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly , details how they struggled...