Spotlight

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Rachel Harding has published an essay on connections between the African American spirituals tradition and African-based ritual practices in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil. The essay, "Você tem direito à árvore da vida: spirituals afro-americanas e religiões da diáspora," is published in Portuguese in the collection...

Chris Beekman , Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology, recently returned from a productive sabbatical. In addition to making significant progress on his own book, he published a co-edited volume with Robert Pickering (of the Gilcrease Museum) Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment . This book...

Casey Allen , Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, recently published two articles. The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (JASR) article (written with several colleagues) offers further validity to RASI—a tool Allen helped pioneer and have been using for almost a decade. Aligned with this, one of Allen’s undergraduate...