http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro News from the U of O Anthropology Department Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:40:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Philip Scher’s edited volume--Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation--was just published by Wiley. Click here for more information. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=169 Stephen Wooten's new book "The Art of Livelihood: Creating Expressive Agri-Culture in Rural Mali" was just published by Carolina Academic Press. Click here for more information. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=167 Steve Frost is part of an international team of researchers who are featured in the latest issue of Science for their research on the early hominin Ardipithecus ramidus. Check out the NY Times story. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=165 Graduate student Tracy Garcia was awarded a Smithsonian Fellowship for the summer to work on archaeological collections from the California Channel Islands that are housed at the National Museum of Natural History. The fellowship was arranged, in part, by Dr. Torben Rick, who Tracy is now working with in Washington ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=163 Graduate student Aaron Blackwell received a Completion Award from the University of Oregon Graduate School. The award will support Aaron for the Fall 2009 term as he completes his dissertation. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=162 Dennis Jenkins has been chosen as the winner of the Earle A. Chiles Award, an honor given by the High Desert Museum in Bend that recognizes outstanding contributions to the history of the state. The $15,000 award will be presented to Jenkins at the Earle A. Chiles Award Banquet in ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=159 Josh Snodgrass, along with a team of researchers at the Oregon Social Learning Center (with Deborah Capaldi as the Principal Investigator), was awarded a 5-year, $3 million NIH grant by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The project (Risk for dysfunctional romantic relationships for ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=157 Frances White will be the final speaker in the Leakey Foundation's "Leakey and Darwin: Revolutionaries" lecture series. Her talk, which focuses on her bonobo research ("What's Love Got To Do With It? Sex for Social Bonding in Bonobos"), is scheduled for Saturday, September 5 at the Field Museum in Chicago. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=154 Graduate student Felicia Madimenos received an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project "Lifestyle and Reproductive Effects on Bone Mineral Density in an Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalist Population". The project is supervised by advisor Josh Snodgrass. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=153 Graduate student Aaron Blackwell received a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California at Santa Barbara to work on the NSF and NIH-funded Tsimane Life History Project with Mike Gurven and Hilly Kaplan. The position will begin in January 2010. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=152 Jon Erlandson and Torben Rick (UO PhD and MNCH Research Associate, now at the Smithsonian) are in the news again—this time for their research, published in Science, on coastal damage by early humans. Check out the New York Times story http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=149 Chelsea Rose, UO Alumna,  will be featured on PBS' series "Time Team America". Read more about Rose and Time Team America at http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/rose.php http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=143 Graduate student Aaron Blackwell received the Malcolm McFee award from the Department of Anthropology for his paper "Are quantity-quality tradeoffs reflected in the immune function of human children? An analysis of immune function, illness frequency, and family composition in a Shuar village."  This paper, which also addresses the effects of ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=140 Graduate student Josh Fisher was awarded the Luther S. and Dorothy C. Cressman Prize by the Department of Anthropology for his paper "Motherwork and the Logic of Sweat in The Fair Trade Zone." http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=139 In 2006, a group of women in Oaxaca, Mexico took over television and radio stations in support of striking teachers who were being brutalized by state police forces and paramilitary groups. These women and their stories compose one of six chapters on a new website, "Making Rights a Reality." ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=134 Frances White (Anthropology), Michelle Sugiyama (ICDS and Anthropology Courtesy), Josh Snodgrass (Anthropology), Larry Sugiyama (Anthropology), and Warren Holmes (ICDS and Biology/Psychology) have been awarded a Lokey Science and the Human Condition grant by the UO Office of the Provost. The award provides $15,000 for the project "Culture: Origins, Foundations, ... http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=131 UO archaeologist Jon Erlandson and Torben Rick (UO PhD and MNCH Research Associate, now at the Smithsonian) have been recommended for an NSF award of ~$98,000 for their continuing study of Paleocoastal peoples of California's Channel Islands. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=129 Dr. Dennis Jenkins of the MNCH Research Division has recently received an NSF grant of ~$200,000 to continue his interdisciplinary and groundbreaking work at the Paisley Caves in Central Oregon. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=128 Mauricio Magaña has been awarded an OUS-SYLFF Graduate Fellowship for International Research. His project is titled, "Contentious Walls: The Cultural Politics of Social Movement Street Art in Southern Mexico." With the SYLFF award, Mauricio will be going to Oaxaca, Mexico to conduct his dissertation research. http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=126 Jon Erlandson has been featured in the Vancouver Sun in an article entitles 'B.C. part of ancient ‘kelp highway’ that lured early migration'. Click this link for the full story http://www.uoregon.edu/~anthro/?p=67