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 […]

End of an Era: Mica Glantz Leaves Legacy of Growth as Chair

End of an Era After more than a decade as department chair, Professor Mica Glantz leaves a legacy of growth and adaptation September 2024 Josh Zaffos The fields of anthropology and geography are, essentially, studies in adaptation and change. So, it’s no surprise that Professor Mica Glantz encountered and embraced plenty of departmental evolution and […]

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 […]

Remembering David Bartecchi (ANTH B.A. 1999, ANTH M.A. 2003)

Remembering David Bartecchi (ANTH B.A. 1999, ANTH M.A. 2003) Winter 2024 Josh Zaffos Colorado State University Department of Anthropology and Geography remembers alumnus and former instructor David Bartecchi (ANTH B.A. 1999, and ANTH M.A. 2003), who died tragically in a rafting accident on the Rogue River in Oregon September 28, 2023. Bartecchi was the executive […]

Archaeology at 11,000 Feet!

Archaeology at 11,000 Feet! CSU crew surveys the high country in Rocky Mountain National Park February 15, 2023 Josh Zaffos In Summer 2023, a crew of CSU Archaeology students and alumni, led by Professor Jason LaBelle, surveyed in Rocky Mountain National Park to record evidence of past peoples’ uses of areas within the park dating […]

Exploring Healthcare in Northern India

Exploring healthcare in northern India Kaitlyn Coons, CSU Anthropology major and winner of the 2023 Amanda Jones Field Study Award, shares her summer abroad learning experience February 9, 2024 By Kaitlyn Coons During Summer 2023, Anthropology undergraduate Kaitlyn Coons traveled to northern India to study with the Himalayan Health Exchange program to learn about and […]

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 […]