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  Students

  Congratulations to Our 2019 Anthropology Grads!

  During the final week of classes, graduating seniors were honored at the 2019 Anthropology Gala, with special recognition for outstanding accomplishments and those who earned departmental honors.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Nichols Presents at Collections in Circulation Conference at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London

  Dr. Nichols presented the paper “Illustrating Anthropological Knowledge: the Exchange and Use of Duplicates Specimens at the US National Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum”. Click through for a link to a podcast of her talk.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Gomberg-Muñoz Co-Hosts Successful SANA-SUNTA Spring Conference

  The Society for the Anthropology of North America and Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology held a joint spring conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, co-hosted by SANA President Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz. The meeting featured more than 200 attendees and several dozen local participants.
  
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  Students

  Marisa LaBella Presents at SANA in Puerto Rico

  Congratulations to recent anthropology graduate Marisa LaBella for presenting her research on the devastating effects of federal policies on immigrant communities at the SANA-SUNTA Spring Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  
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  Events

  Anthropology Student Gala 2019!

  Join us for a celebration of student research, accomplishments, and awards for graduating seniors! April 23, 3:30-5:00, IC 4th floor. Family and friends are welcome.

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  Contributions by Dr. Krueger Featured in PBS Nova and National Geographic Articles

  Dr. Kristin Krueger recently contributed expert comments to Nova's reporting on the newly identified Homo luzonensis and to National Geographic's coverage of four hominin teeth recently found in Southern China.
  
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  Faculty

  Professor Adams Presents Paper at Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting

  Dr. Adams' paper, “Rethinking Power in Upland Indonesia: Spirits and Sacred Statues in an Era of Heritage-Consciousness,” was part of the panel “Rethinking Power in the Southeast Asian Present” at the AAS conference in Denver in March.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Krueger Publishes Paper in American Journal of Physical Anthropology

  Titled "Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists," the paper finds significant differences in dental microwear texture signatures among populations with different diets.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Nichols Publishes Article on Her Research at the Field Museum.

  Nichols chronicles exchanges of anthropological museum specimens between Field Museum Curator of Anthropology Paul S. Martin and renowned southwest archaeologist Harold Gladwin.
  
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  Events

  Upcoming Talk by Dr. Penglase: "Reshaping Rio de Janeiro: Olympic Legacies and Social Inequality in Brazil"

  The presentation, based on Dr. Penglase's recent fieldwork in Rio, will take place at 4:15 p.m. on February 13, in Cuneo 002. The event is presented by the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program.
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  Alumni

  Alum Michele Statz Launches First Book at AAA 2018

  Statz (BA ’05, PhD UWash ’14) launched her first book, Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S., at the 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Strand Publishes Article on Written Dialect in Norway

  The article addresses non-standard spellings in rural Norwegians’ digital communication and in local marketing campaigns. It is published in the journal Multilingua as part of a special issue on contemporary language revitalizaiton in Europe.
  
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  Faculty

  New Article from Dr. Adams on Local Vendors in Indonesian Tourism

  The article addresses local strategies for economic survival in Toraja, and it appears in the most recent issue of the journal Tourism Culture & Communication (18(4)).
  
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  Faculty

  Loyola Anthropologists at AAA 2018

  Drs. Adams, Gomberg-Muñoz, and Strand participated in research and discussion panels at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA, in November.
  
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  Dr. Nichols Presents at Chicago Digital Humanities Colloquium

  Catherine Nichols and June Coyne (PhD candidate, History) shared their collaborative work titled "Decolonizing the Archive: The May Weber Collection in a Digital World."
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Butler Featured in Phoenix Article on Masks

  Noah Butler contributed an anthropological perspective on Halloween and masking for Loyola's student newspaper.
  
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  Events

  Special Event: Dr. W. Wood Lecture on Textile Patterns, Indigenous Weavers, and Global Flows

  Dr. Wood's talk is titled "Reproducing Hearst Collection Textiles: Tracing a Global Meshwork Ethnographically," to be held at 4:00 on Oct. 15 in Cudahy Science 207. This is the first event in the 2018-19 "Objects on the Move" Anthropology Lecture Series.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Gomberg-Muñoz Receives NSF Grant for Research in Mexico

  Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz was awarded a National Science Foundation senior research grant for a multiyear project with deportee rights organizers in Mexico City.
  
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  Dr. Butler Receives FCIP Teaching Award

  Noah Butler was honored in Fall 2018 with the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Freshmen.
  

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  Announcing Student Travel and Research Awards!

  This funding will support Anthropology majors pursuing research projects or dissemination of research. Deadlines are October 1 and March 1.
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  Alumni

  Mia LaRocca ('17) Wins Fulbright Award to Italy

  The Fulbright/Casten Family Foundation Award will allow Mia to pursue a Master’s degree at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, which is committed to promoting a sustainable and just food economy through the tenets of the Slow Food movement.
  
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  Faculty

  New Article from Dr. Adams Focuses on Local Knowledge in Tourism in Indonesia

  Kathleen Adams and co-author Dirk Sandarupa's article was published in the Asian Journal of Tourism Research.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Strand Contributes to Interdisciplinary "Rural Voices" Book

  Thea Strand recently published a chapter on rural Norwegians' use of urban language in the edited volume "Rural Voices: Language, Identity, and Social Change Across Place."
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Gomberg-Muñoz Contributes to Inaugural Issue of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America

  In JANA's first "Come to Terms" column, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz makes a case for anthropologists as "accomplices" rather than "allies."
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Adams Publishes Chapter on Mortuary Tourism in Indonesia

  Kathleen Adams has contributed a chapter to the edited volume "Leisure and Death," based on her ongoing research in Toraja, Indonesia.
  
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  Alumni

  LUC Anthro Alum Alexandria Peterson Publishes in Journal of Human Evolution

  Alex Peterson (BS '14) recently published an article as first author in JHE analyzing dental microwear, paleoenvironment, and diet for A. africanus and P. robustus.
  
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  Faculty

  Atlas Obscura Features Dr. Nichols' Research on Museum Exchange

  Catherine Nichols' ongoing research on the exchange of anthropological duplicates among museums, including the Smithsonian, is featured in a new Atlas Obscura article.
  
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  Faculty

  Dr. Grauer Elected President of AAPA, to Receive 2018 Lasker Award

  Anthropology Chair Anne Grauer has been elected President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. At the AAPA meeting in April, Dr. Grauer will also receive the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award for her history of excellent service to the AAPA and the field of physical anthropology.
  
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  Events

  From the Attic to the Web: Building the May Weber Ethnographic Digital Collection

  Dr. Catherine Nichols, along with Digital Humanities graduate students Lucas Coyne, Andi Pacheco, and Adam Depew, will discuss progress on their project, "Decolonizing the Museum Catalogue," at a lunchtime lecture on Wednesday, April 11.
  
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  Video

  Landfill on campus a glimpse into Chicago's past

  What’s underneath this grass on Halas Quad, may surprise you: old garbage. Extending across this part of Loyola’s Lake Shore campus is a landfill that contains about 60 tons of trash. Hundreds of artifacts exposed during construction projects have been collected and studied by Anthropology professor Dr. Daniel Amick.
  
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  Experiential Learning

  May Weber Ethnographic Art Collection finds a home at Loyola

  A university acquisition that was years in the making is now giving students a chance to study non-Western folk art--and unravel the mind of a collector.
  
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  Faculty

  Professor Jim Calcagno creates new online course for TED

  Professor Jim Calcagno has developed one of the first online courses available as part of TED’s new Ted Studies series. Dr. Calcagno’s 2013 Evolutionary Anthropology article “What Makes Us Human” served as the inspiration for the course, which features a set of curated talks on evolution from experts such as Jane Goodall.