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 […]

Release the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sites

Release the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sites in new study August 7, 2023 Joshua Zaffos CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer is enlisting some tiny organisms in the grand challenge of dating hunting sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains. In a new, open-access article in the […]

In Remembrance: Barbara Hawthorne

In Remembrance: Barbara Hawthorne (1949-2023) April 30, 2023 Joshua Zaffos CSU Anthropology instructor and university alum Barb Hawthorne passed away February 2023 (Image via Tim Moore) Colorado State University anthropology instructor and alumna Barbara Hawthorne passed away this February, leaving a legacy as a compassionate teacher and practitioner who helped developed some of the department’s […]

Take a tour of the Frayer Collection

Five Things! Take a tour of the Frayer Collection Anthropology doctoral student Alex Pelissero showcases his favorite fossil casts from new department collection September 1, 2022 Alex Pelissero This summer, the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University inherited a large collection of fossil casts from David Frayer, professor emeritus of Anthropology at […]

Cohen Explores the Power of Dance in West Africa in New Book

Cohen Explores the Power of Dance in West Africa in New Book In Infinite Repertoire, Anthropology Professor Adrienne Cohen weaves her insight as both ethnographer and dancer to examine how young women in Guinea are flexing new rights and roles through dance  August 9, 2022 Josh Zaffos A female dancer pumping the dundunba with Lansana […]

CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit 

CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit June 24, 2022 Joshua Zaffos Researchers who study the evolution and adaptations of Homo sapiens and other hominin species across hundreds of thousands to millions of years face a constant challenge: reconstructing long-long-long-ago paleoenvironments. Not surprisingly, ancient fossil records are incomplete and imperfect, and while some species may preserve well, many […]