Chair’s Note, Fall 2024: A Look Towards the Future

Welcoming New Department Chair Michael Pante A Look Towards the Future Michael Pante, Ph.D., is the new chair of the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University, beginning Summer 2024. A faculty member since 2013, Pante is a paleoanthropologist and biological anthropologist who directs the department’s 3D Imaging and Analysis Lab and Zooarchaeology […]

Remembering Alanna Vincent  

Remembering Alanna Vincent   May 2024 Josh Zaffos  Alanna Vincent, Colorado State University student and a Geography major in the Department of Anthropology and Geography, unexpectedly passed away this winter and is remembered as an engaged and thoughtful student leader passionate about her indigenous heritage. Vincent would have graduated Spring 2024 with a Bachelor of Science […]

Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann Magennis 

Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann Magennis  Spring 2024 Josh Zaffos Professor Emerita Ann Magennis, an enduring and admired faculty member at Colorado State University Department of Anthropology and Geography, passed away on February 27, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado, following a brief illness.   Magennis taught biological anthropology for CSU Anthropology from 1991 […]

The Associated Press, NBC News, and NPR’s KUNC note the Prison Agriculture Lab’s research

The Associated Press, NBC News, and NPR’s KUNC note the Prison Agriculture Lab’s research February 2, 2024 Carmen Ruyle Hardy   The research of the Prison Agriculture Lab – co-directed by Associate Professor of Sociology Joshua Sbicca and Assistant Professor of Geography Carrie Chennault – has served as the basis for a recently published Associated […]

Cultural Anthropologist Jonna Yarrington Joins CSU Anthropology and Geography

Cultural Anthropologist Jonna Yarrington Joins CSU Anthropology and Geography Josh Zaffos January 31, 2024 In Fall 2023, Jonna Yarrington joined the Department of Anthropology and Geography as Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and ready to dive into teaching and research surrounding family, kinship, and inheritance and related sociocultural, economic, and environmental matters. Yarrington’s scholarship has […]

Kate Browne Heralds Liberal Arts “Life Kit” in 2023 Commencement Keynote Address

Kate Browne Heralds Liberal Arts “Life Kit” in 2023 Commencement Keynote Address Josh Zaffos January 19, 2024 Anthropology Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Kate Browne returned to the Colorado State University campus on December 16, 2023 to give the Fall 2023 Keynote Address at the College of Liberal Arts Commencement. Browne, who retired from […]

Hausermann and Team Win NSF Grant To Study Gold Mining in Ghana

Hausermann and Team Win NSF Grant To Study Gold Mining in Ghana September 1, 2023 Josh Zaffos Associate Professor of Geography Heidi Hausermann and colleagues have won a $1.537 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the health, social, and environmental effects of rapidly expanding, small-scale gold mining and mercury pollution in Ghana and […]

CSU Team Launches Online Support Tool for African Forests

CSU Team Launches Online Support Tool for African Forests August 28, 2023 Joshua Zaffos This June, a NASA-funded team of CSU researchers, including University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and CSU Africa Center Director Kathleen Galvin, traveled to Kenya to unveil a new interactive, online tool to help land managers and foresters working in Kenyan and […]