Celebrate CLA! Faculty and staff recognized for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and service in 2024
The College of Liberal Arts acknowledges the accomplishments and efforts of the outstanding faculty, staff, and volunteers for 2024.
Snodgrass Wins Award for The Avatar Faculty
Snodgrass 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 roughly top 10%, best scholarly […]
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 […]
CSU College of Liberal Arts Dean Ben Withers leaves large impact
After eight years at CSU, the College of Liberal Arts dean heads to Iowa State University as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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 […]
Nancy Wynstra-Cope: Handling History
Handling History Nancy Wynstra-Cope: Avery House Practicum By Josh Zaffos Through her practicum at the Avery House in Old Town Fort Collins, Nancy Wynstra-Cope gets to handle and catalogue 19th-century artifacts of life in Fort Collins, and even restores broken materials from the era so they can be displayed. Her and other students’ work and […]
More flamingo, anyone? How to dine like the ancient Romans
Food has always been the great unifier. We gather around the table and work things out by breaking bread. For students in Colorado State University archaeology/anthropology instructor Emily Wilson’s class, food is teaching them a lot about what has – and hasn’t – changed in the past 2,700 years.
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 […]