Innovation

Chris Beekman of the Department of Anthropology worked with colleagues from the Museum of Northern Arizona and El Colegio de Michoacan to reconstruct changing lake levels and their relationship to patterns in archaeological settlement in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico. Magdalena Lake was drained in the 20th century, and...

Dr. K. Mohrman (Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies) and Mia Fischer (Associate Professor, Department of Communication) publish “‘As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!’: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ” in American Quarterly (Volume 77, Number 1: 105-131), the journal of record for American...

The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded a prestigious three-year, $200,000 research grant to Dr. Ronica Rooks, professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. Using national, secondary data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Census-enacted HRS (linking the HRS to United States' business information),...

Published recently in American Anthropologist , Emma Bunkley examines how weight loss caused by Type II diabetes can trigger harmful rumors and social isolation for women in Senegal. Her article, “The Weight of Rumor,” reveals how stigma surrounding weight loss not only delays diagnosis but also deepens the emotional and...

Christopher Beekman has published a long chapter with his colleagues on "Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected?" in Harvard's History of the World series. The chapter occurs in the sixth and final volume of the series to be published, Entangled Worlds: 600–1350 , edited by Daniel G...

Dr. Sarah Horton from the CU Denver Department of Anthropology, published an article in Social Science Medicine examining how public hospital staff in a “new immigrant destination” in Colorado’s mountain resort area conceptualized recent Latinx arrivals as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image, implementing spatializing strategies to keep...

This in-person and virtual event includes presentations in Spanish and English from over a dozen contributors to the set of four books called Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America.

Sarah Fields recently published her co-edited anthology, Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs (University of Texas Press) . Included in this volume is Fields' chapter “Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup.” Featuring photos from across centuries and continents, this book is especially noteworthy...

Hamilton Bean and colleagues recently published " Mobile Public Warning in Japan and the United States: A Sister Cities Collaboration " in Frontiers in Communication . As part of a special issue on "Cross-Boundary Disaster Communication: Building Systems Thinking and Breaking Traditional Divisions in the Field," the study described how...

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua French (lead), Pamela Whitten, Robert Rostermundt, Yaning Liu, Farhad Pourkamali, and Yongxia Kuang from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences for being approved for a $63,413 award from the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The following people have won the Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees...