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Colwell on Dakota Access Pipeline

March 14, 2017

Chip Colwell, Anthropology Lecturer, gives an archaeological review of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and argues that a more accurate reckoning of the economic benefits of oil pipelines needs to consider the negative impact of pipelines on other parts of the economy. How the archaeological review behind the Dakota Access Pipeline...

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Horton on Immigration Policy

Nov. 22, 2016

During the election season, Associate Professor of Anthropology Sarah Horton had several opinion pieces published in the Huffington Post using findings from her book to address current issues regarding immigration policy: The Hole in Trump's Wall Sept 9 IIRAIRA at 20: Still Punitive and Unequal Sept 30 (with Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz...

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Horton on farmworker health and policy

May 10, 2016

Sarah Horton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, recently published a brief on the Scholars' Strategy Network, " How Agriculture Employers Arrange 'Identity Loans' to Evade Immigration and Labor Laws ," and presented her paper, "Ghost Workers: Propelling Injured Workers into the 'Space of Nonexistence," at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual...

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Announcing CLAS Excellence Awards for 2014-1015

May 5, 2015

Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award Mike Cummings, Political Science Outstanding Graduate Students for Spring M.S. Jonathan Cook, Integrative Biology Ph.D. Jennifer Diemunsch, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Faculty Excellence Award winners Tenure Track Teaching Leo Bruederle, Integrative Biology Alex Engau, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Tammy Stone, Anthropology Non-Tenure Track Teaching Nicholas Golding,...

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