Graduate Students

Students pursuing MA and PhD degrees study and teach across a wide range of topics in anthropology and geography, working in labs and field sites on campus and around the world. Our graduate students lead and collaborate on research projects, present at regional and national academic conferences, publish in accomplished peer-review journals, and participate in public outreach opportunities.

Graduate Student Research

Katya Zhao: Summer 2024

Katya Zhao Summer 2024 Anthropology in the Temple People in the U.S. and other Western countries aren’t shy when it […]

Man holding a drone remote control standing in gorge in Tanzania

Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024

Alex Pelissero Summer 2024 Winning Awards and Droning to Study Early Humans Can drones help anthropologists look back in time […]

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Grace Ellis: Summer 2024

Grace Ellis Summer 2024 Identifying Pre-contact Ports and Construction in the Amazon Doctoral candidate Grace Ellis is the lead author […]

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Robert Madden: Summer 2024

Robert Madden Summer 2024 How Past Cultures Rolled the Dice Master’s student Robert Madden studies and documents prehistoric, Indigenous North […]

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Aleah Kuhr: Summer 2024

Aleah Kuhr Summer 2024 Digging Into Porcupine Creek Nearly 45 years after Colorado State University faculty and students excavated at […]

Man holding large one-million-year-old stone handaxe.

Tewabe Negash Kessaw: Summer 2024

Tewabe Negash Kessaw Summer 2024 Bones to Pick about Surviving a Supervolcano A study published March 2024 in the journal […]

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 […]

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Ready Primate One: Role-playing video game levels up biological anthropology

Ready Primate One Joshua Zaffos Video gaming may be a diversion from research and coursework for some, but Anthropology Ph.D. […]

CSU center and Anthropology students work to recover remains of American WWII pilot in France

CSU center and Anthropology students work to recover remains of American WWII pilot in France CSU SOURCE | August 23, […]