Anthropology Department News

Philip Scher’s edited volume–Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation–published by Wiley

jjosh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:29:04 +0000

Philip Scher’s edited volume–Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation–was just published by Wiley. Click here for more information.

Stephen Wooten’s Book on Mali Published by Carolina Academic Press

jjosh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:53:00 +0000

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.

Steve Frost in the News

jjosh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:03:24 +0000

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.

Smithsonian Fellowship Awarded to Tracy Garcia

jjosh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:10:50 +0000

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 DC.

Aaron Blackwell Receives Completion Award

jjosh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:47:24 +0000

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.

Dennis Jenkins Wins Award from High Desert Museum

jjosh — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:19:13 +0000

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 Portland on December 1. See the full press release here.

Josh Snodgrass Awarded NIH Grant

jjosh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:24:08 +0000

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 adults) involves a significant biomarker component, and the UO portion of the award (approximately $215,000) will fund graduate students and laboratory analyses.

Frances White to Give Leakey Foundation Lecture

jjosh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:12:09 +0000

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.

Felicia Madimenos Receives NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

jjosh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:53:55 +0000

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.

Aaron Blackwell Receives Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UCSB

jjosh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:34:02 +0000

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.

Jon Erlandson in the News

jjosh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:00:27 +0000

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

Anthropology Alumna on PBS’ “Time Team America”

rarcher — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:33:09 +0000

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

Aaron Blackwell Receives McFee Award

jjosh — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:00:29 +0000

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 life history tradeoffs and market integration on the development of immune function in Shuar children, was recently presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Meeting, Fullerton, CA in May 2009.

Cressman Prize Awarded to Josh Fisher

jjosh — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:55:06 +0000

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.”

Lynn Stephen and students launch digital ethnography website about the Oaxaca Social Movement in Mexico

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:34:41 +0000

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.” University of Oregon faculty and graduate students developed the website to provide direct access to the story as told by those who participated in and observed it. With more than 35 video-testimonials supplemented with text, photographs and documents, the website is intended to inform students, teachers, researchers and activists about human rights, indigenous rights, women’s rights, media activism, participatory democracy and Latin American social movements. See the full press release here.

UO Office of the Provost awards Lokey Science and the Human Condition Grant to Frances White, Michelle Sugiyama, Josh Snodgrass, Larry Sugiyama, and Warren Holmes

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:07:58 +0000

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, and Resonance”. The project is part of an initiative being developed by ICDS called Evolution across the Disciplines, modeled after the Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS) at Binghamton University. This particular award provides funds for the development of three undergraduate courses (Evolution for Everyone, Origins of Culture, and The Culture of Health), which will be taught as a series beginning in the 2010-2011 academic year.

Jon Erlandson and Torben Rick funded by NSF

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:47:08 +0000

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.

Dennis Jenkins of the MNCH Research Division receives NSF grant

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:45:27 +0000

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.

Mauricio Magaña awarded OUS-SYLFF Graduate Fellowship for International Research

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:39:31 +0000

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.

Jon Erlandson in the News

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:41:34 +0000

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