Research & Teaching
Advancing and Sharing Ideas
Anthropology and Geography faculty lead groundbreaking, challenging, and exciting research projects, in labs and afield. From northern Colorado to French West Africa, from the Virginia coast to the edge of the Serengeti, from Mesoamerican forest highlands to Croatian caves, the Mississippi River Valley to Mongolia, Anthropology and Geography faculty do firsthand research on five continents and bring that experience back to campus and classrooms.
Students benefit through courses that explore important global topics informed by professors’ research interests. Faculty also offer and support internships and host practicums for students to take part in research in labs and at field study sites. Students may also may undertake an independent study with faculty guidance.
Student Research Opportunities
We have a variety of opportunities for students to assist with research and to develop practical skills such as GIS, artifact curation, geoarchaeological analyses, aerial and terrestrial remote sensing methods, and report writing. Internships, Practicums, and Independent Studies are available to students with a solid academic record with a minimum 2.9 GPA and a demonstrated commitment to their education. Anthropology and Geography professors maintain 15 Labs and Research Centers that are available to our undergraduate students for various learning and research opportunities. Our department also offers several field schools that enable students to apply ideas and methods gained in classrooms in working environments.
Research Spotlight
Van Buren: Silver “Thieves,” Tin Barons, and Conquistadors in Bolivia
In her new book, Silver “Thieves,” Tin Barons, and Conquistadors (University of Arizona Press, 2024), Professor Mary Van Buren examines and writes on the cultural and economic consequences of artisanal and large-scale mining in Bolivia and the history of the country’s independent mine workers. Van Buren, who has completed long-term research on Bolivian mining through her career, highlights how mining relied on a historically forced labor system of Indigenous people that began under colonial regimes, with impacts on people’s livelihoods and the environment today.
Kwiatkowski: Investigating Domestic Abuse in Vietnam
Professor of Cultural Anthropology Lynn Kwiatkowski received a 2024 CSU College of Liberal Arts Ann Gill Faculty Development Award to support her research and project titled “Domestic Violence, Legal Progressions, and Innovative Solutions in Northern Vietnam.” Kwiatkowksi’s research delves into the sociocultural dynamics affecting the well-being of Vietnamese women who are victims of domestic abuse. Dr. Kwiatkowski embarked on her initial journey to Vietnam for this work in 2017 and is continuing her research during a 2024-25 sabbatical.
Snodgrass: Exploring the roles of digital and spirtual avatars
In his 2023 book, The Avatar Faculty (University of California Press), Professor Jeffrey Snodgrass examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars, whether spiritual or digital—can play in our lives. Snodgrass argues that avatars allow for the ecstatic projection of consciousness into alternate realities, potentially providing both the spiritually possessed and gamers access to superior secondary identities with elevated social standing. Snodgrass spoke with New Books podcast in Spring 2023 about the book and his research.
Pante: Guess who’s for dinner? Finding the oldest evidence of human ancestors’ butchering
Research from Associate Professor Michael Pante and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution and Purdue University has identified butchering marks on a 1.45-million-year-old hominin shin bone — the oldest evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and possibly eating one another. The research is the first application of the 3D quantitative method — developed and published by Pante — to a fossil specimen. Pante and coauthors spoke about their findings with National Geographic (paywall), Smithsonian Magazine, the Washington Post, and other media in Summer 2023.
Fisher: Mapping for Symbols and Ancient City Life in Mexico
Professor of Archaeology Chris Fisher and colleague and former CSU Anthropology postdoc Rodrigo Solinis Casparius, of University of Illinois, Chicago, were awarded a National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Award ($307,769) for their proposal, “Becoming Purepecha: Genesis of an Empire at Angamuco, Michoacan.” The award will fund three years of summer field research in Mexico, with a focus on identifying symbols of imperial transition and excavating and mapping mortuary areas, public plazas, and household complexes at the archaeological site. Fisher and colleagues first detected the former city and an estimated 39,000 buildings in 2012, using LiDAR.
Department Research and Scholarship
Anthropology and Geography faculty publish findings in leading journals and present at national and international conferences across our disciplines. View the department’s scholarship reports, which detail faculty peer-reviewed publications, grants and awards, presentations, and other accomplishments.
Faculty Research, Awards, and Presentations
Publications
Ross, R., C. Chennault, S. Ham, and J. Sanders. 2026. “ “This Is Legacy Cooking”: Black Women’s Aesthetic Labor in Newberry County, South Carolina.” Antipode 58, no. 2: e70129. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70129
Keevil TL, Pelissero AJ, Negash T, Orlikoff ER, Osborne I, Tolley AM, Pobiner B and Pante MC (2026) A comparative bone surface modification database for revealing the origins and evolution of human carnivory. Front. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1681814
Presentations
“Lost Cities, New Tech, and the LiDAR revolution: The Case For An Earth Archive” (Virtual), Fort Walla Walla Museum, January 2026
Publications
Thomas Bown
Warner, Albert J. and Thomas M. Bown. 2025. The Heart Mountain Detachment Fault: A Critical Reappraisal. Archway Publishing. 128pp.
Cohen, Adrienne J. 2025. Rock climbing as lithic ethnography: Animacy, aesthetics, and deep time. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Volume 15, Number 2. https://doi.org/10.1086/735922
Cohen, Adrienne. 2025. Quantities of Qualia. Current Anthropology. Volume 66, Number 1. pp. 29-49. https://doi.org/10.1086/734063
Smith JA, Dowding EM, Abdelhady AA, et al. Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project. Paleobiology. 2025;51(3):408-431. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Henry, E.R., Ellis, M.G. & DeSanto, C.M. Infrastructure Beyond Cities: Perspectives from the Americas. J World Prehist 38, 16 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09203-6
Khuc, V.Q., Tran, B.Q., Nong, D. et al. Driving forces of forest cover rehabilitation and implications for forest transition, environmental management and upland sustainable development in Vietnam. Environ Dev Sustain 27, 6619–6639 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-04159-z
Datta-Roy, A., Sheth, C. & Leisz, S.J. The Future of Swidden in the Asian Highlands: Insights from a Village in Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Hum Ecol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-025-00600-1
Curran, S.C., Drăgușin, V., Pobiner, B., Pante, M. et al. Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago. Nature Communications 16, 836 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56154-9
Pippen, John R. “Music and/as Work.” Open Access Musicology 3 (2025): 111–28. https://www.openaccessmusicology.com/essays/music-and-as-work
Piercey, C.J., Schlechter, T.E., Henry, D. et al. Use of reagent test kits and fentanyl test strips among electronic music festival attendees in Colorado: prevalence, barriers, and behavior in response to drug checking. Harm Reduct J 22, 46 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01181-4
Yarrington J. Poetics and Performance: Fanfa Bands and the Semiotic Landscape in Northern Haiti. Signs and Society. Published online 2025:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/sas.2024.9
Grants and Awards
Connie Fellmann and Mica Glantz
2025 CSU College of Liberal Arts Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Collaborative Projects
Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) Water Research Seed Grant, “Enhancing Colorado’s Instream Flow Program: A Comparative Analysis of State Methodologies, Hydrological Techniques, and Policy Innovations,” $50,000
2025 CSU College of Liberal Arts Ann Gill Faculty Development Award
Distance Educator of the Year, 2025, CSU Online
Faculty Fellow, Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, 2025-26
Presentations
“Counter-Archiving Incarcerated Life: Engaged Humanities in the Prison Agriculture Lab,” Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Research Showcase, May 2025
“Lost Cities, New Tech, and the LiDAR revolution: The Case For An Earth Archive,” Science on Tap, Fort Collins, November 2025
Co-Organizer, The Past and Future of Groundwater in the West Symposium, Colorado State University, March 2025
Publications
Chennault, C., & Sbicca, J. (2024). Abolition methodologies. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231193718
Kaufman, E.C., Carrie Chennault, and Hanieh Molana. 2024. Slow(ed) Scholarship: On Crip Time and Refusal from the Intersections of Privilege and Precarity. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 23 (5): 379-401. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i5.2326
Cohen, Adrienne. 2024. Book Symposium: A life worth telling? Comment on Sarró, Ramon. 2023. Inventing an African alphabet: Writing, art, and Kongo culture in the DRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14 (3): 783-785. https://doi.org/10.1086/732672
Rowan, J., Du, A., Lundgren, E.J. et al. Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution. Nat Ecol Evol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02462-0
Faith, J. Tyler, John Rowan, and Andrew Du. 2024. Late Cenozoic Faunal and Ecological Change in Africa. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 52:1. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031621-114105
Lerner, G. A., Siebe, C., Ramírez-Uribe, I. and Fisher, C. T. (2024) “Temporal and morphological eruption characteristics of lava flows from the Holocene La Taza monogenetic cone obtained from petrology and LiDAR imagery (Michoacán, Mexico)”, Volcanica, 7(2), pp. 587–606. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.02.587606
Ellis M.G., Browne Ribeiro A.T., Carvalho M., Fisher C.T. A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil. Latin American Antiquity. 2024;35(1):128-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.6
M. Grace Ellis, Christopher T. Fisher, and Anna T. Browne Ribeiro. 2024. Book chapter: “Infrastructure and Interconnectivity in Pre-Columbian Amazonia.” In Infrastructure in Archaeological Discourse 1st Edition. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032678450
Boone, R. B., C. K. Lesorogol, and K. A. Galvin. 2024. Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being. Ecology and Society 29(1):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14872-290127
Warrier, R., R. B. Boone, P. W. Keys, and K. Galvin. 2024. Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model. Ecology and Society 29(1):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14455-290118
Frachetti, M.D., Berner, J., Liu, X., Henry, E.R., Maksudov, F., and Ju, T. Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08086-5
Henry, Edward R. 2024. Book chapter: “Adena and Hopewell Institutional Responsibilities and Aging Infrastructure in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA.” In Infrastructure in Archaeological Discourse 1st Edition. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032678450
Henry, Edward R. and Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius. 2024. Book chapter: “Perspectives: Historicity and Temporality of Infrastructure.” In Infrastructure in Archaeological Discourse 1st Edition. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032678450
Kwiatkowski, Lynn. 2024. The Politics of Emotion and Domestic Violence in Northern Vietnam. Feminist Anthropology 5(1): 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12142
Kwiatkowski, Lynn and Karin Friederic. 2024. Introduction to the Gender Violence, Emotion, and the State Symposium. Feminist Anthropology 5(1): 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12143
LaBelle, J. M. (2024). Secrets from the Ice. Journal of Glacial Archaeology, 7, 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1558/jga.27530
T. A. Ngo, L. See, S. J. Leisz, N. B. Tran, T. H. V. Dinh and T. H. Nguyen 2024. Spatial assessment of pollutant loads for surface water quality management: a case study in Lai Chau city, Vietnam. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 1345, 012012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1345/1/012012
Meng, Fandong & Felton, Andrew & Mao, Jiafu & Cong, Nan & Smith, William & Körner, Christian & Hu, Zhongmin & Hong, Songbai & Knott, Jonathan & Yan, Yanzi & Guo, Bixi & Deng, Ying & Leisz, Stephen & Dorji, Tsechoe & Wang, Shiping & Chen, Anping. (2024). Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change. Science Advances. 10. 2487. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn2487
Wang, Chao & Leisz, Stephen & Li, Li & Shi, Xiaoying & Mao, Jiafu & Zheng, Yi & Chen, Anping. (2024). Historical and projected future runoff over the Mekong River basin. Earth System Dynamics. 15. 75-90. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-75-2024
Kappelman, J., Todd, L.C., Davis, C.A. et al. Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07208-3
Hernández-Duarte, A., Saavedra, F., González, E., Miranda, A., Francois, J.-P., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Sibold, J. (2024). Effects of Drought and Fire Severity Interaction on Short-Term Post-Fire Recovery of the Mediterranean Forest of South America. Fire, 7(12), 428. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7120428
Infanti, A., Giardina, A., Razum, J., King, D. L., Baggio, S., Snodgrass, J. G., Vowels, M., Schimmenti, A., Király, O., Rumpf, H., Vögele, C., & Billieux, J. (2024). User-avatar bond as diagnostic indicator for gaming disorder: A word on the side of caution: Commentary on: Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning (Stavropoulos et al., 2023). Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 13(4), 885-893. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00032
Snodgrass, J. G., Lacy, M. G., Dengah, H. J. F., II, Zhao, K. X., & Sagstetter, S. I. (2024). Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research. Human Organization, 83(4), 389–400. https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2024.2412986
Snodgrass, Jeffrey G., Michael G. Lacy, Evan Polzer, and Chakrapani Upadhyay. 2024. “ Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan.” Ethos 52: 480–499. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12443
Hardin, J., Dengah, H. J. F., Gibb, J. K., Mendenhall, E., Nyembo, E., Oths, K., Piperata, BA., Snodgrass, J.G., Weller, S. C. (2024). Planning to Work as an Applied Medical Anthropologist? The Advantages of a Broad and Strategic Methodological Toolkit. Practicing Anthropology, 46(2), 100–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2024.2345805
Dengah, H. J. F., Brewis, A., Johnson, J. C., McCarty, C., Negrón, R., Snodgrass, J. G., Thomas, E.B., Weller, S.C., Zhao, K. X. (2024). The Benefits of Using Cultural Domain Analysis in Applied Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology, 46(2), 97–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2024.2345806
Johnson, J. C., Weller, S., Snodgrass, J., Moritz, M., McCarty, C., Crittenden, A., Dengah, F., Gibb, J.K., Nelson, R. (2024). How Teaching Research Design Advances Applied Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology, 46(2), 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2024.2345792
Snodgrass JG, Dengah HJF II, Sagstetter SI, Zhao KX (2024) Causal inference in ethnographic research: Refining explanations with abductive logic, strength of evidence assessments, and graphical models. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0302857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302857
Snodgrass, Jeffrey & Lacy, Michael & Wutich, Amber & Bernard, H. & Oths, Kathryn & Beresford, Melissa & Bendeck, Shawna & Branstrator, Julia & Dengah II, Henri & Nelson, Robin & Ruth, Alissa & Sagstetter, Seth & Sturtz Sreetharan, Cindi & Zhao, Katya. (2024). Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/napa.12213
Dengah II, H.J. François, Alexandra Brewis, Jeffrey C. Johnson, Chris McCarty, Rosalyn Negrón, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Elizabeth Bingham Thomas, Susan C. Weller, and Katya Xinyi Zhao. 2024. “The Benefits of Using Cultural Domain Analysis in Applied Anthropology.” Practicing Anthropology 46, no. 2 (April 2, 2024): 97–99.
Johnson, Jeffrey C., Susan Weller, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Mark Moritz, Christopher McCarty, Alyssa Crittenden, Francois Dengah, James K. Gibb, and Robin Nelson. 2024. “How Teaching Research Design Advances Applied Anthropology.” Practicing Anthropology 46, no. 2 (April 2, 2024): 94–96.
Van Buren, Mary. 2024. Silver “Thieves,” Tin Barons, and Conquistadors, University of Arizona Press. 264pp.
Yarrington, Jonna. 2024. “Channel Effects: The Political Afterlife of Maintenance Dredging on Tangier Island, Virginia, USA.” Human Ecology 52(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-00527-z
Yarrington, Jonna M. 2024. Review of Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation. Sarah E. Vaughn. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 256 pp. (Paper US$27.95; Cloth US$102.95). Transforming Anthropology 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1086/730089
Richard W. Stoffle, Kathleen A. Van Vlack, Heather H. Lim, Alannah Bell, Landon Yarrington. Breaking the Clovis glass ceiling: Native American oral history of the Pleistocene[J]. AIMS Geosciences, 2024, 10(3): 436-459. https://doi.org/10.3934/geosci.2024023
Grants and Awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Building a Scalable Prison Environmental Justice Tool with and for Communities to Educate and Inform Actionable Decisions. Carrie Chennault (PI), Danielle Wood (Co-I, MIT), Caitlin Mothes (Co-I, CSU), Jordan Mazurek (Co-I, Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons), Grant Award, 2024-2027.
Faculty Fellow, Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, 2024-25.
National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Award, $307,769, “Becoming Purepecha: Genesis of an Empire at Angamuco, Michoacan,” with Dr. Rodrigo Solinis Casparius.
Fulbright García Robles Fellowship/ Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 2024-25, “Sistemas del café veracruzanos.”
2024 CSU College of Liberal Arts Ann Gill Faculty Development Award, “Domestic Violence, Legal Progressions, and Innovative Solutions in Northern Vietnam.”
CSU Data Science Research Institute (DSRI) DISCOVER Grant, $12,083, “Geospatial Data and High Tech Innovation to Address Agricultural and Rural Livelihood Challenges in Mainland Southeast Asia.”
Choice 2023 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice/ Association of College and Research Libraries, The Avatar Faculty, University of California Press (2023)
Colorado State University Honors Professor of the Year, 2024-25
Presentations
Keri Canada. “Period Stigma as an Institutionalized Oppression,” presentation to Colorado State University’s Zero Waste Team, March 26, 2024.
Keri Canada and Gentry Noel-Heunes. Presentation. “Feeling at Home on Campus: Building Networks and Community Among Professional Advisors,” May 17, 2024, Colorado-Wyoming Academic Advising Association Conference.
Keri Canada and Gentry Noel-Heunes. Presentation. “Feeling at Home on Campus: Building Networks and Community Among Administrative Professionals,” October 24, 2024, Symposium for Inclusive Excellence at Colorado State University.
Carrie Chennault and Joshua Sbicca. Presentation, “Abolition Methodologies: World Building and the Prison Agriculture Lab,” April 20, 2024, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
Reagan Ross and Carrie Chennault. Presentation, “This is legacy cooking”: Food Sharing as Black Women’s Aesthetic Labor in Newberry County, South Carolina. Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference.
Carrie Chennault. Colorado State University Center for Engaged Humanities, 2024-2025 Blake Faculty Fellow, “Counter-Archiving Incarcerated Life: Digital Engaged Humanities in the Prison Agriculture Lab.”
“The Paleoecology Agenda for Paleoanthropology,” Keynote Talk, Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2024
Applications of Math Interdisciplinary Panel, SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Math) and CSU Department of Mathematics, October 2024
“Was Paranthropus actually absent from the Afar Depression (Ethiopia), or have we just not found it yet?” University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Biological Anthropology Colloquium, April 19, 2024
“Reproducing and Contesting Domestic Violence in Northern Vietnam.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 21, 2024.
“Climate Refugees and the Democratic Dilemma” panel, Colorado State University International Symposium, April 2, 2024
Publications
Chennault, C. and L. Sutton. 2023. At Home: Black Women’s Collective Claims to Environmentally Just Rental Housing. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2157238 (Community Co-authored Article)
Chennault, Carrie and Joshua Sbicca. 2023. Prison Agriculture in the United States: Racial Capitalism and the Disciplinary Matrix of Exploitation and Rehabilitation. Agriculture and Human Values 40(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10346-x
Sokolowski, K.G., Codding, B.F., Du, A., Faith, J.T., 2023. Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 629, 111786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111786
Ellis, M. Grace, Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, Michel Carvalho, and Christopher T. Fisher. 2023. A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil. Latin American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.6
Arabella Chen, Falaye Danfakha, Heidi Hausermann, Jacqueline R. Gerson. 2023. Education and equipment distribution lead to increased mercury knowledge and retort use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities in Senegal, Cleaner Production Letters, Volume 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100050
Adomako, J. and H. Hausermann. 2023. Gendered mining landscapes and health implications in Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining industry. Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.12.028
Stauffer, J. Grant, Seth B. Grooms, Lorraine W. Hu, Joy Mersmann, Tristram R. Kidder, and Edward R. Henry. 2023. “Reimagining the Development of Downtown Cahokia Using Remote Sensing Visualizations from the Western Edge of the Grand Plaza” Land 12, no. 2: 342. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020342
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Suzanne Kent, Josely Turcios, Kaitlin Robinson, Alveena Nadeem. Local Knowledge and Environmental Education in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras. Human Organization 1 June 2023; 82 (2): 95–106. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.95
LaBelle, Jason M. 2023. An Update to the Lithic Caches of Colorado. Southwestern Lore, Vol. 89, Issue 2, p21.
Khuc, V.Q., Tran, B.Q., Nong, D. et al. Driving forces of forest cover rehabilitation and implications for forest transition, environmental management and upland sustainable development in Vietnam. Environ Dev Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-04159-z
Sly BC, Weir TL, Cunningham-Sabo L, Leisz SJ, Stull VJ, Melby CL. Increasing Household Diet Diversity and Food Security in Rural Rwanda Using Small-Scale Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: A Community-Engaged Proof-of-Concept Study. Nutrients. 2023 Jul 14;15(14):3137. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143137
Elizabeth A. Mack, Laura Aileen Sauls, Brad D. Jokisch, Kerstin Nolte, Birgit Schmook, Yifan He, Claudia Radel, Ginger R.H. Allington, Lisa C. Kelley, Christian Kelly Scott, Stephen Leisz, Guangqing Chi, Lira Sagynbekova, Nicholas Cuba, Geoffrey M. Henebry (2023). Remittances and land change: A systematic review, World Development, Volume 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106251
McKenna L. Litynski and Michael C. Pante. Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 160, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105860
Pobiner, B., Pante, M. & Keevil, T. Early Pleistocene cut marked hominin fossil from Koobi Fora, Kenya. Scientific Reports 13, 9896 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35702-7
Davis, K.T., M.D. Robles, et al. 2023. Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (11). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208120120
Snodgrass, J.G. 2023. The Avatar Faculty, Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games. University of California Press. 280pp. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520384378
Grants and Awards
Ann Gill Faculty Development Award, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts, “Stone Intimacies: Vertical Competence and Posthuman Relations in American Rock Climbing”
Outstanding Service Award, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts
National Science Foundation Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) Program, “Investigating mercury biogeochemical cycling via mixed-methods in complex artisanal gold mining landscapes and implications for community health,” $1,537,666.00. With Jacqueline Gerson (Co-Principal Investigator).
Excellence in Teaching Award, Non-Tenure Track, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts
State Historical Fund Grant, History Colorado, Phase Two, CSU Archaeological Collections Preservation Project
Presentations
Joshua Sbicca and Chennault, Carrie “Abolitionist Methodologies: The Case of US Prison Agriculture,” Java & Justice, CSU Center for Environmental Justice, April 19, 2023.
Chennault, C. 2023. Abolition Ecologies in Action: A Conversation on Political-Ecological Praxis. Panel presentation March 22 at the Dimensions of Political Ecology AAG Pre-conference, Denver, Colorado.
Chennault, C., C. Mothes, and D. Hunt. 2023. Building a Nationwide Prison Environmental Justice Dataset: Linking Earth Science Data and Racial Capitalism. Presented March 24 at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Sutton, L. and C. Chennault. 2023. Policing the Right to the City: Cops and Housing in Dubuque, Iowa. Presented March 25 at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado. (Community Co-authored Presentation)
Molana, H., J. Langill, C. Chennault, F. Winata, and A. Guhlincozzi. Networking 2.0: Cultivating Feminist Spaces of Support, Accountability, Fellowship and Mentorship Beyond the Here-and-Now. Panel presentation March 24 at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
“The effects of time-averaging on ecological inference in large mammal fossil assemblages,” Colorado State University Department of Geosciences Seminar, September 28, 2023.
“Understanding Complex Health Implications from Small-scale Gold Mining: Outcomes from long-term mixed methods and interdisciplinary research in Ghana,” Texas A&M University Geography Colloquium Series, April 21, 2023.
Hutchinson, E., H. Hausermann, and Z. Walder-Hoge. Border “security” and jaguars in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: a spatial analysis. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
“The First Ascent: Over Ten Thousand Years of Native American Occupation in the Colorado Mountains.” Presented February 23 at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Naturalist Nights, Aspen, Colorado.
“Guess Who’s for Dinner?” Insights, CSU College of Liberal Arts Speaker Series, September 28, 2023.
Publications
Cohen, Adrienne J. (2022) “Multimodal Feminist Testimony: on Ambiguity, Embodiment, and Evidence in Guinea.” Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 12(3): 895-899. https://doi.org/10.1086/723681
Cohen, A. (2022). Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy. African Studies Review, 65(1), 166-188. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.2
Chennault, Carrie. 2022. Relational Life: Lessons from Black Feminism on Whiteness and Engaging New Food Activism. Antipode 54(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12775
Faith, J.T., Du, A., 2022. The potential of coverage-based rarefaction in zooarchaeology. In: Eren, M.I., Buchanan, B. (Eds.) Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology: Another Step Toward and Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture. Berghahn Books, New York. 171-199.
Fraser, D., Villaseñor, A., Tóth, A.B., Balk, M., Eronen, J.T., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davis, M., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Gotelli, N.J., Jukar, A.M., Looy, C.V., McGill, B.J., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Shupinski, A.B., Soul, L.C., Lyons, S.K., 2022. Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Nature Communications. 13, 3940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8
Patterson, D., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Uno, K., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Braun, D.R., Wood, B.A., (2022). Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei? Journal of Human Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103154
Cohen, A., Du, A., Rowan, J., Yost, C., Billingsley, A., Campisano, C., Brown, E., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Grant, K., Kingston, J., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Owen, R.B., Reed, K., Russell, J., Stockhecke, M., 2022. Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119, e2107393119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107393119
Barr, W.A., Pobiner, B., Rowan, J., Du, A., Faith, J.T., 2022. No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119, e2115540119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115540119
DeSantis, L.R.G., Pardi, M.I., Du, A., Greshko, M.A., Yann, L.T., Hulbert, R.C., Louys, J., 2022. Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289, 20211839. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1839
Fisher, C., Leisz, S. et. al. (2022) Creating an Earth Archive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (11) e2115485119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115485119
Fernando T. Maestre et al., Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378, 915-920 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062
Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N.L., Ryan, M., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Brennan, R., Charli-Joseph, L., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Galvin, K.A. and Goldstein, B.E., et al. 2022. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change, 72, p.102422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422
Bullion, E., Maksudov, F., Henry, E., Merkle, A., & Frachetti, M. (2022). Community practice and religion at an Early Islamic cemetery in highland Central Asia. Antiquity, 1-18 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.106
Johnson, M.L. 2022. Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places, A Geographer’s Guide. Palgrave Macmillan. 322pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8626-9
Buchanan B, Kilby JD, LaBelle JM, Surovell TA, Holland-Lulewicz J, Hamilton MJ. Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition. American Antiquity. 2022;87(3):567-580. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.153
LaBelle, J., Toft, M., & Matsuda, M. (2022). What’s the Point?: Lessons Learned from 100 Years of Artifact Hunting in Eastern Colorado. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 10(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2021.41
Leisz, S.J., Tuyen, N.T., An, N.T., Duong, N., Yen, N.T.B. (2022). Agricultural Land-Use Trends in Vietnam 1990–2020. In: Vadrevu, K.P., Le Toan, T., Ray, S.S., Justice, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_30
Bruno, Jasmine E., Stephen J. Leisz, Jake S. Bobula, Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez (2021) Conserving Rangelands: A Social-Ecological Case Study from Northeastern Colorado. Land 10(12), 1399 https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121399
Nguyen, Yen Thi Bich, Stephen J. Leisz (2021) Determinants of livelihoods vulnerability to climate change: Two minority ethnic communities in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam. Environmental Science & Policy 123: 11-20 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.007
Fisher, C., Leisz, S. et. al. (2022) Creating an Earth Archive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (11) e2115485119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115485119
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Shawna Bendeck, Katya Xinyi Zhao, Seth Sagstetter, Michael G. Lacy, Cody Nixon, Julia R. Branstrator, Jesusa M.G. Arevalo, Steven W. Cole, 2022. Social connection and gene regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Divergent patterns for online and in-person interaction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, 105885 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105885
Grants and Awards
“Leveraging Earth Science Data to Heighten Awareness of Environmental Injustices Within the U.S. Prison System.” Sponsor: NASA Equity and Environmental Justice program
Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Collaborative Projects, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts, Carrie Chennault and Joshua Sbicca, $10,000
University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
“Multidisciplinary approach to investigate the role of drainage from high-elevation wetlands in maintaining baseflow in headwater streams.” Co-Investigators: William Sanford, Geosciences, Steven Fassnacht, Watershed Science, Stephen Leisz, Anthropology and Geography, Ryan Morrison, Civil Engineering, Kristin Rasussen, Atmospheric Sciences, Jeff Deery, Colorado Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies. Sponsor: Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University; Amount: $35,000
Scholarship Impact Award, Recent Achievement, Colorado State University
Innovation in Liberal Arts Award, Colorado State University Demo Day 2022, CSU Ventures, “Weather Water Watts“
Presentations
Presentation, “Dismantling Agricarceral Boundaries: Mapping New Stories with Critical GIS,” February 28, 2022, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., 2022. The effects of time-averaging on the composition of large mammalian communities: lessons from Amboseli National Park, Kenya. 1st Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association meeting – Estes Park, Colorado.
Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., 2022. Spatiotemporal scaling of large mammal communities in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: Implications for the ecological composition of time-averaged fossil assemblages. Gordon Research Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. (presentation)
Du, A., 2022. How humans and mammals responded to four million years of environmental change in Africa. Colorado State University International Symposium.
Du, A., Friedlander, E., Faith, J.T., 2022. Evaluating a commonly used method for placing confidence intervals on the ends of hominin temporal ranges. Paleoanthropology Society Meeting.
Sokolowski, K., Codding, B., Du, A., Faith, J.T., 2022. Environmental change in hominin evolution: building stronger links through understanding the environmental tolerances of present-day African mammals. Paleoanthropology Society Meeting.
Gaming, Gold Mining, and Innovative Tech, Great Conversations Kickoff, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts. Fall 2022
“The carnivorous diet of the genus Homo at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,” Dmanisi-Olduvai: Bridging Africa and Europe conference, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2022
“What it Means to be Human: Building Curriculum to Support and Retain Diverse Student Populations,” CSU Symposium for Inclusive Excellence, Fall 2022
Publications
Cohen, Adrienne J. (2022) “Multimodal Feminist Testimony: on Ambiguity, Embodiment, and Evidence in Guinea.” Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 12(3): 895-899. https://doi.org/10.1086/723681
Cohen, A. (2022). Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy. African Studies Review, 65(1), 166-188. https://doi:10.1017/asr.2022.2
Chennault, Carrie. 2022. Relational Life: Lessons from Black Feminism on Whiteness and Engaging New Food Activism. Antipode 54(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12775
Faith, J.T., Du, A., 2022. The potential of coverage-based rarefaction in zooarchaeology. In: Eren, M.I., Buchanan, B. (Eds.) Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology: Another Step Toward and Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture. Berghahn Books, New York. 171-199.
Fraser, D., Villaseñor, A., Tóth, A.B., Balk, M., Eronen, J.T., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davis, M., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Gotelli, N.J., Jukar, A.M., Looy, C.V., McGill, B.J., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Shupinski, A.B., Soul, L.C., Lyons, S.K., 2022. Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Nature Communications. 13, 3940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8
Patterson, D., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Uno, K., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Braun, D.R., Wood, B.A., (2022). Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei? Journal of Human Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103154
Cohen, A., Du, A., Rowan, J., Yost, C., Billingsley, A., Campisano, C., Brown, E., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Grant, K., Kingston, J., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Owen, R.B., Reed, K., Russell, J., Stockhecke, M., 2022. Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119, e2107393119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107393119
Barr, W.A., Pobiner, B., Rowan, J., Du, A., Faith, J.T., 2022. No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119, e2115540119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115540119
DeSantis, L.R.G., Pardi, M.I., Du, A., Greshko, M.A., Yann, L.T., Hulbert, R.C., Louys, J., 2022. Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289, 20211839. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1839
Fisher, C., Leisz, S. et. al. (2022) Creating an Earth Archive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (11) e2115485119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115485119
Fernando T. Maestre et al., Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378, 915-920 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062
Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N.L., Ryan, M., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Brennan, R., Charli-Joseph, L., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Galvin, K.A. and Goldstein, B.E., et al. 2022. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change, 72, p.102422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422
Bullion, E., Maksudov, F., Henry, E., Merkle, A., & Frachetti, M. (2022). Community practice and religion at an Early Islamic cemetery in highland Central Asia. Antiquity, 1-18 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.106
Johnson, M.L. 2022. Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places, A Geographer’s Guide. Palgrave Macmillan. 322pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8626-9
Buchanan B, Kilby JD, LaBelle JM, Surovell TA, Holland-Lulewicz J, Hamilton MJ. Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition. American Antiquity. 2022;87(3):567-580. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.153
LaBelle, J., Toft, M., & Matsuda, M. (2022). What’s the Point?: Lessons Learned from 100 Years of Artifact Hunting in Eastern Colorado. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 10(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2021.41
Leisz, S.J., Tuyen, N.T., An, N.T., Duong, N., Yen, N.T.B. (2022). Agricultural Land-Use Trends in Vietnam 1990–2020. In: Vadrevu, K.P., Le Toan, T., Ray, S.S., Justice, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_30
Bruno, Jasmine E., Stephen J. Leisz, Jake S. Bobula, Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez (2021) Conserving Rangelands: A Social-Ecological Case Study from Northeastern Colorado. Land 10(12), 1399 https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121399
Nguyen, Yen Thi Bich, Stephen J. Leisz (2021) Determinants of livelihoods vulnerability to climate change: Two minority ethnic communities in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam. Environmental Science & Policy 123: 11-20 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.007
Fisher, C., Leisz, S. et. al. (2022) Creating an Earth Archive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (11) e2115485119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115485119
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Shawna Bendeck, Katya Xinyi Zhao, Seth Sagstetter, Michael G. Lacy, Cody Nixon, Julia R. Branstrator, Jesusa M.G. Arevalo, Steven W. Cole, 2022. Social connection and gene regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Divergent patterns for online and in-person interaction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, 105885 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105885
Grants & Awards
“Leveraging Earth Science Data to Heighten Awareness of Environmental Injustices Within the U.S. Prison System.” Sponsor: NASA Equity and Environmental Justice program
Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Collaborative Projects, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts, Carrie Chennault and Joshua Sbicca, $10,000
University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
“Multidisciplinary approach to investigate the role of drainage from high-elevation wetlands in
maintaining baseflow in headwater streams.” Co-Investigators: William Sanford, Geosciences, Steven Fassnacht, Watershed Science, Stephen Leisz, Anthropology and Geography, Ryan Morrison, Civil Engineering, Kristin Rasussen, Atmospheric Sciences, Jeff Deery, Colorado Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies. Sponsor: Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University; Amount: $35,000
Scholarship Impact Award, Recent Achievement, Colorado State University
Innovation in Liberal Arts Award, Colorado State University Demo Day 2022, CSU Ventures, “Weather Water Watts“
Presentations
Presentation, “Dismantling Agricarceral Boundaries: Mapping New Stories with Critical GIS,” February 28, 2022, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., 2022. The effects of time-averaging on the composition of large mammalian communities: lessons from Amboseli National Park, Kenya. 1st Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association meeting – Estes Park, Colorado.
Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., 2022. Spatiotemporal scaling of large mammal communities in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: Implications for the ecological composition of time-averaged fossil assemblages. Gordon Research Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. (presentation)
Du, A., 2022. How humans and mammals responded to four million years of environmental change in Africa. Colorado State University International Symposium.
Du, A., Friedlander, E., Faith, J.T., 2022. Evaluating a commonly used method for placing confidence intervals on the ends of hominin temporal ranges. Paleoanthropology Society Meeting.
Sokolowski, K., Codding, B., Du, A., Faith, J.T., 2022. Environmental change in hominin evolution: building stronger links through understanding the environmental tolerances of present-day African mammals. Paleoanthropology Society Meeting.
Gaming, Gold Mining, and Innovative Tech, Great Conversations Kickoff, Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts. Fall 2022
“The carnivorous diet of the genus Homo at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,” Dmanisi-Olduvai: Bridging Africa and Europe conference, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2022
“What it Means to be Human: Building Curriculum to Support and Retain Diverse Student Populations,” CSU Symposium for Inclusive Excellence, Fall 2022
Publications
Pineda-Munoz, S., Jukar, A.M., Tóth, A.B., Fraser, D., Du, A., Barr, W.A., Amatangelo, K., Balk, M.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bercovici, A., Blois, J., Davis, M., Eronen, J.T., Gotelli, N.J., Looy, C., Miller, J.H., Shupinkski, A.B., Soul, L.C., Villaseñor, A., Wing, S., Lyons, S.K., 2020. Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography. 43, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05027
Fraser, D., Soul, L.C., Tóth, A.B., Balk, M.A., Eronon, J.T., Pineda-Munoz, S., Shupinski, A.B., Villaseñor, A., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Gotelli, N.J., Graves, G.R., Jukar, A.M., Looy, C.V., Miller, J.H., Potts, R., Lyons, S.K., in press. Investigating biotic interactions in deep time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.001
Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Du, A., Barr, W.A., 2020. The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens. Quaternary Research. 96, 88-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.51
Du, A., Rowan, J., Wang, S.C., Wood, B.A., Alemseged, Z., 2020. Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: a case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage. Journal of Human Evolution. 138, 102688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102688
Du, A., Wood, B., 2020. Brain size evolution in the hominin clade. In: Cole, J., McNabb, J., Grove, M., and Hosfield, R. (Eds.), Landscapes of Human Evolution: Contributions in honour of John Gowlett. Archaeopress, Oxford. 9-17. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920565117
Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Du, A., 2020. Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 201920565. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1920565117
Galvin, KA, D. Backman, MW Luizza and TA Beeton. 2020 African Community-Based Conservancies: Innovative Governance for Whom? Pp. 147-172. IN: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations. Before and After Borders, J Levin, Ed. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Galvin, KA, T. Even, RS Reid, J Njoka, J Roque de Pinho, P Thornton and K Saylor. 2020. Understanding Climate from the Ground Up: Knowledge of Environmental Changes in the East African Savannas. Pp. 221-242. In: Changing Climate, Changing Worlds. Local knowledge and the challenges of social and ecological change, M. Welch-Devine, A Sourdril and BJ Burke, eds. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland
Abebe, BA, K Jones, J Solomon, K Galvin and P Evangelista. 2020. Examining Social Equity in Community-Based Conservation Programs: A Case Study of Controlled Hunting Programs in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. World Development 135, Nov 2020, 105066 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105066
McElwee, P. , Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares , Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dániel Babai, Peter Bates, Kathleen Galvin, Maximilien Guèze, Jianguo Liu, Zsolt Molnár, Hien T. Ngo, Victoria Reyes-García, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Aibek Samakov, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Sandra Díaz, and Eduardo S. Brondízio. 2020 Working with Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) in Large-Scale Ecological Assessments: Reviewing the Experience of the IPBES Global Assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13705
Hausermann, H, Adomako, J and M. Robles. 2020. Fried eggs and all-women gangs: the geopolitics of Chinese gold mining in Ghana, bodily vulnerability and resistance. Journal of Human Geography 13(1): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1942778620910900
Hausermann, H. 2019. Spirit hospitals and “concern with herbs”: A political ecology of healing and being-in-common in Ghana. Special issue titled, “Commons, Commoning and Co-Becoming: Nurturing Life-in-Common and Post-Capitalist Futures,” Environment & Planning E. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619893915
Henry, Edward R., and G. Logan Miller 2020. Toward a Situational Approach to Understanding Middle Woodland Societies in the North American Midcontinent. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 45(3):187–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/01461109.2020.1826878
Henry, Edward R., Andrew M. Mickelson, and Michael E. Mickelson. 2020. Documenting Ceremonial Situations and Institutional Change at Middle Woodland Geometric Enclosures in Central Kentucky. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 45(3):203–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/01461109.2020.1826879
Henry, Edward R., Alice P. Wright, Sarah C. Sherwood, Stephen B. Carmody, Casey R. Barrier, and Christopher Van de Ven. 2020. Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA. Remote Sensing 12(15):1–30. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152364
Kwiatkowski, Lynn. 2020 Marital Sexual Violence, Care, and Shared Suffering in Vietnam. In M. Gabriela Torres and Kersti Yllö, eds. Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 119-138. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429322037
LaBelle, Jason M. and Cody Newton 2020 Cody Complex Foragers and Their Use of Grooved Abraders in Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America. North American Archaeologist 41(2-3):63-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197693120923538
Nghiem, T., Kono, Y., Leisz, S.J. (2020) Crop Boom as a Trigger of Smallholder Livelihood and Land Use Transformations: The Case of Coffee Production in the Northern Mountain Region of Vietnam. Land 9(2). 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/land9020056
Young, Nicholas E., Paul H.Evangelista, Tefera Mengitsu, Stephen Leisz (2020) Twenty-three years of forest cover change in protected areas under different governance strategies: A case study from Ethiopia’s southern highlands. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104426
Michael Pante, Ignacio de la Torre, Francesco d’Errico, Jackson Njau, Robert Blumenschine (2020). Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. Journal of Human Evolution, 48, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102885
Sierra F. Patterson, Valbone Memeti, Ryan McKay, Jere H. Lipps & Jeannine Pedersen-Guzman, 2020. Determining the Basaltic Source Rocks of Enigmatic Cogged Stones From Southern California, California Archaeology, 12:2, 197-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/1947461X.2020.1812024
Depsky, Nicholas and Diego Pons, 2020. Meteorological droughts are projected to worsen in Central America’s
Dry Corridor throughout the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters 16 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc5e2
Contributing author, Chapter 7: Agricultural Sector.
Moreno, J.M., C. Laguna-Defior, V. Barros, E. Calvo Buendía, J.A. Marengo y Ú. Oswald Spring (eds.), 2020: Adaptación
frente a los riesgos del cambio climático en los países iberoamericanos – Informe RIOCCADAPT. McGraw-Hill, Madrid, España
(ISBN: 9788448621643). http://rioccadapt.com/en/
Jay Ke-Schutte (2020) Doing things with “nothing”: the pragmatics of democratic multilingualism in South African parliamentary debate, Social Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2020.1862523
Jay Ke-Schutte (2020) BOOK REVIEW: Daniel F. Vukovich, Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People’s Republic of China, PRC History Review. PDF: http://prchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Vucovich_review.pdf
Teresa L. Ross Tellechea and Teresa Tellechea, 2020. “Reimaging Sanctuary as Spaces of Resistance,” The Applied Anthropologist Journal, Volume 40, No.15. pp.11-15. https://hpsfaa.wildapricot.org/TAA-2020-2
Mary Van Buren
Van Buren, M. (2020). The Persistence of Indigenous Silver Production in Porco, Bolivia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00546-8
Grants & Awards
Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) CONVERGE program: Award for COVID-19 Working Group: Cumulative Effects of Successive Disasters. Browne is lead with co-lead, Caela O’Connell (UNC-Chapel Hill) and 10 Working Group Members including disaster anthropologists and practitioners.
Archaeological Repository of CSU Archaeological Collections Preservation Project – Phase One
History Colorado – State Historical Fund
Archaeology Competitive Grant 2020
https://www.historycolorado.org/archaeology-grants
Award, National Science Foundation, RAPID: Digital Social Connection and Immune Biology among Emerging Adults: Assessing Novel Sources of Health Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic https://col.st/hUKrT
Presentations & Addresses
Invited commencement address, “Looking up from disaster.” Montclair State University. Graduating anthropology majors and families. Zoom address. Saturday, May 23, 2020.
Invited NSF presentation, “Decision-Making as a Window into Risk Perception and Interdependencies. NSF-sponsored Conference, “HurriCon: Science at the Intersection of Hurricanes and the Populated Coast” Convened at East Carolina University February 27-28, 2020.
Session organizer and moderator, “Hope and Collective Action as Counteragents to Environmental Risk and Adversity.” The Natural Hazards Workshop, Annual Meeting, convened virtually. July 12, 2020.
Invited presentation. The Natural Hazards Workshop, Annual Meeting, convened virtually. July 12-15 2020. “Theorizing Hope and Collective Action.”
Invited Plenary panel moderator and introductory remarks. The Natural Hazards Annual Researchers Meeting, convened virtually. July 15-16, 2020. Plenary session: “The Data Revolution—Ethical Imperatives and Methodological Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Research.”
Du, A., Friedlander, E., Rowan, J., Alemseged, Z., 2020. Placing probabilities on whether a fossil taxon was truly absent from a site or has not been found yet. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts and Program: 72.
Invited talk: Placing probabilities on whether a taxon was truly absent from a site or has not been sampled yet: applications to the hominin genus Paranthropus (July 16) Canadian Museum of Nature
Invited talk: Placing probabilities on taxon true absence: applications to the hominin genus Paranthropus (July 31st) Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Presentation: Ritual Dispositions, Adena and Hopewell Enclosures, and the Passing of Time: A Monumental Biography of a Small Middle Woodland Enclosure in Central Kentucky, USA, University of Denver Department of Anthropology, Fall 2020 Virtual Colloquium Series
“Connecting Agriculture Stress Index Systems at the Sub-National Level to the Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts: A General Approach to Transition from Monitoring to Forecasting,” poster, NOAA/ National Weather Service Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, October 2020
“When Rainfall Meets Hunger: Towards an Early-Action System for Acute Undernutrition in Guatemala,” poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020
“Connecting Agriculture Stress Index Systems at the Sub-National Level to the Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts: A General Approach to Transition from Monitoring to Forecasting,” presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020