Category: News
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Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann Magennis
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Read More: Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann MagennisAstute 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…
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Snodgrass Wins Award for The Avatar Faculty
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Read More: Snodgrass Wins Award for The Avatar FacultySnodgrass Wins Award for The Avatar Faculty March 2024 Josh Zaffos Professor Jeffrey Snodgrass has won a 2023 Choice Award, Outstanding Academic Title, for his book, The Avatar Faculty, published by University of California Press. Choice Awards are given by the Association of College and Research Libraries and recognize the…
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The Associated Press, NBC News, and NPR’s KUNC note the Prison Agriculture Lab’s research
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Read More: The Associated Press, NBC News, and NPR’s KUNC note the Prison Agriculture Lab’s researchThe 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…
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Remembering David Bartecchi (ANTH BA 1999, ANTH MA 2003)
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Read More: Remembering David Bartecchi (ANTH BA 1999, ANTH MA 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,…
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Archaeology at 11,000 Feet!
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Read More: 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…
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Cultural Anthropologist Jonna Yarrington Joins CSU Anthropology and Geography
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Read More: Cultural Anthropologist Jonna Yarrington Joins CSU Anthropology and GeographyCultural 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…
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Kate Browne Heralds Liberal Arts “Life Kit” in 2023 Commencement Keynote Address
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Read More: Kate Browne Heralds Liberal Arts “Life Kit” in 2023 Commencement Keynote AddressKate 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…
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Hausermann and Team Win NSF Grant To Study Gold Mining in Ghana
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Read More: Hausermann and Team Win NSF Grant To Study Gold Mining in GhanaHausermann 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…
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CSU Team Launches Online Support Tool for African Forests
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Read More: CSU Team Launches Online Support Tool for African ForestsCSU 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…