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ALUMNI NEWS Anthropology Publications SUMMER 2013 Food and Travel Section Back issues of our alumni newsletters can be accessed at: Matters of Degree http://www.colorado.edu/Anthropology/news/newsletters.html

Public Events Becoming Human...all over again The Fantastic and the Banal: Are we our own worst enemies? Rethinking Bureaucratic Authority Extinction, in its biological and cultural A Graduate Student Conference forms, was the focus of an Anthropolo- September 27 & 28 gy graduate seminar that co-instructors For information and for conference updates, please Paul Shankman and Michelle Sauther visit our website at http:// opened to the public and which then rethinkingbureaucracy.tumblr.com/. caught the attention of a reporter at the While we cannot provide funds for travel, most Coloradan. See the full story at http:// meals will be included, and free housing may be available with anthropology graduate students. www.coloradanmagazine.org/2013/06/01/extinction/ Exhibits As Sauther and Shankman reminded us, extinction and evolution Next time you’re in Boulder... can be counted on to make novel bedfellows. Take the unex- pected detail Matt Sponheimer drilled from his latest menu of Maintaining Pastoral Identity in a Changing World: paleodentition studies : The Turkana and Maasai People of East Africa A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a The Institute of Behavioral Science is pleased to an- “game changer” occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some nounce a research exhibit featuring the work of members added grasses or sedges to their menus…Despite the J. Terrence McCabe, Professor of Anthropology and fact that grasses and sedges were readily available Director of the Environment and Society Program at back then, the hominids seem to have ignored IBS. More about this exhibit on page 9. them for an extended period…[I’d rather die than be on THAT Paleo diet?]… “We don’t know Ancient Southwest: Peoples, Pottery and Place Curated by Steve Lekson, this exhibition features exactly what happened,” said Sponheimer. more than 100 rarely exhibited ceramics from the “But we do know that… some of these hominids museum's celebrated southwestern collection and started to eat things that they did not eat be- takes visitors through more than 1000 years (AD 500- fore, and it is quite possible that these changes in 1600) of southwestern history. Photographs of an- diet were an important step in becoming human...” cient southwestern ruins by noted aerial photogra- —Jim Scott, CU-Boulder media relations. pher Adriel Heisey provide a visual and dramatic Also available on BBC , MSNBC, and other major news outlets. Links on page 10. frame of reference for the exhibition. See link below.

With the advent of the MOOC*, the extinction of Higher Ed -As We To Feel the Earth: Moccasin Exhibition -Know-It is even a topic of speculation, including a special report CU Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Hall on “Learning in the Digital Age” in the August Scientific American. Curated by Cynthia Chavez Lamar, PhD, Director Indi- While the rest of the world is coming to recognize the value of a an Arts Research Center and Kendall Tallmadge, CU liberal arts education, the U.S. is experiencing skyrocketing tuition Anthropology Graduate Student. Produced in collab- costs and a shortage of highly-skilled labor. These converging oration with Native American artists specializing in pressures are pushing businesses to find new ways to both train contemporary moccasin making. Details on page 9. and measure mastery among potential employees. How they will Exhibit details for the CU Museum at: http:// deliver is the question. cumuseum.colorado.edu/exhibits/current-exhibits *Massive Open Online Course, “...an educational delivery system that has the potential to revolutionize higher education …” See CU President Benson’s letter at https://www.cusys.edu/presnews/2013/06/ 1 New Faculty Associate Professor Robin M. Bernstein

We made a real coup with the hire of Dr. Robin Bernstein, who comes to us from George Washington University, where she was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology. She is also a Research Collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History and a Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her expertise lies in human and non-human primate growth and development; de-

velopmental, reproductive, and behavioral endocrinology, and lactation biology. Dr.

Bernstein uses tools and approaches from endocrinology to investigate how physio- logical mechanisms mediate evolutionary processes. Her current research centers on bioactive factors in breast milk and their role in mediating maternal effects on infant growth and development, in humans and nonhuman primates. http://humanorigins.si.edu/about/events/scientist-dr-robin-bernstein

Dr. Bernstein has numerous professional papers to her credit. CV: http://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/people/bios/bernstein.html

Assistant Professor Scott G. Ortman

Dr. Scott Ortman will be joining us from his post as Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and as a Lightfoot Fellow at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. We are truly fortunate to have this young star among us, with an impressive set of credentials including:  2010 Arizona State University. PhD in Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change.  His dissertation: Genes, Language and Culture in Tewa Ethnogenesis, A.D. 1150-1400, won the 2011 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award and his first book was given the University of Utah Press’ annual prize for excellence in substantive research and quality writing on the human experience in the American West: Ortman, Scott G. (2012). Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. http://www.uofupress.com Find out more about Scott Ortman at: http://www.santafe.edu/media/staff_cvs/Ortman_Vita_011012.pdf

Dr. Christian S. Hammons will be joining us as an Instructor for the next three years. Christian is a prodigal son and a spectacular example of the talent currently available to academe. He will be a wonderful addition to our teaching faculty and temporarily fill the void created by our retiring scions. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California and graduated with a BA summa cum laude in Anthropology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1992.

Dr. James Loudon (PhD ‘09) will be leaving us for a tenure-track position in the East Carolina University Depart- ment of Anthropology. Three cheers for James! We will miss him and his wildly popular, wildly oversized lectures in Physical Anthropology.

2 Long Term Ecological Research Network

Terry McCabe participated in the NSF’s 2012 All Scientists Meeting of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Net- work in Estes Park last September… “to make the case for integrating more anthropologists into the study of ecosystems.” The NSF created the LTER Network in 1980 to support long-term research of ecosystems with the understanding that many ecosystem processes can only be studied through long-term research. Sites were selected to represent major ecosystem types or natural biomes across the US (there are now also a few international LTER sites). It is one of the most highly funded NSF programs.

There is a growing recognition among ecologists that they need to grapple with the human impacts on ecosystems and that the old model of studying isolated and protected reserves to understand ecosystems is no longer valid...However, there are few ecological models that satisfactorily incorporate human complexity. Ecologists may study ecosystem processes at the micro-scale and then jump to the global macro-scale, eg, measuring the impact of global warming on these processes, thus skipping the local, regional, and national scales at which human activities more directly affect ecosystem processes in myriad ways. This offers opportunities for anthropologists who study complex social-ecological systems using a holistic approach and making linkages across these spatiotem- poral scales. Moreover, anthropologists are no strangers to long-term research as many are involved in ethnographic research in one site over multiple decades... —-Excerpted from Anthropology News on the Web at: http://www.anthropologynews.org/index.php/2013/03/01/anthropologists-at-the-all- scientists-meeting-of-the-long-term-ecological-research-network/

A Fond Farewell to an Old Friend Professor Emeritus Linda Cordell

Our longtime colleague in Anthropology, the CU Museum, and more recently, Senior Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute, was found at her desk March 31, peacefully working on a manuscript. She is sorely missed already, both professionally and personally. Please see her bio at SAR: http://sarweb.org/? senior_scholar_linda_s_cordell: In 1992, Linda joined the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder as Director of the University of Colorado Museum… and Professor of Anthropology. She served at Colorado until June 2005...she was appointed to the Exter- nal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute in 2010 and was a keynote speaker at their Spring Science Council Meeting in April 2011. Linda was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2005..awarded the A. V. Kidder medal for eminence in American Archaeology by the American Anthropological Association—the second woman to have won the Kidder medal in its 60 years of existence. Linda was also awarded the Byron S. Cummings Award by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society in 2004… Fare thee well, Linda. Her obituary appeared April 1in the Santa Fe New Mexican http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_48c218ab-ee13-54fa- ae0c-620157ee619b.html? fb_action_ids=10101436602773423&fb_action_types=og.recommends

3 New Titles in Anthropology

Early Hominin Paleoecology Matt Sponheimer, Julia Lee-Thorp, Kaye Reed, Peter Ungar, Eds.

An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecolo- gy offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas.

Recent advances in the field and the laboratory are not only improving our under-

standing of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing special- ization of the individual fields of study in hominin paleontology, communicating research results and data is difficult, especially to a broad audience of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and the interested public. Early Hominin Paleoecol- ogy provides a good working knowledge of the subject while also presenting a solid grounding in the sundry ways this knowledge has been constructed. The book is divid- ed into three sections—climate and environment (with a particular focus on the latter), adaptation and behavior, and modern analogs and models—and features con- tributors from various fields of study, including archaeology, primatology, paleoclima- tology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Early Hominin Paleoecology is an accessible introduction into this fascinating and ever-evolving field and will be essential to any student interested in pursuing research in human paleoecology.

Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca Art Joyce, Ed.

Art Joyce, editor, and several CU Anthropology grads have just released: Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca University Press of Colorado The chapters were authored by CU grad students and alums including Stacy Barber, Marc Levine, Guy Hepp, Michelle Butler, and Arion Mayes. http://www.amazon.com/Polity-Ecology-Formative-Period-Coastal/dp/1607322021/ ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1360367922&sr=8-2- fkmr0&keywords=polity+and+ecology+oaxaca

El Poder Compartido; ensayos sobre la arqueología de organizaciones políticas segmentarias y oligárquicas Gerardo Gutiérrez

Gerardo Gutiérrez’ latest book is off the presses in Michoacán, Mexico. El Poder Compartido; ensayos sobre la arqueología de organizaciones políticas segmentarias y oligárquicas. El Colegio de Michoacan and el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Su- periores en Antropologia Social ISBN 978-607-486-199-0

Gutiérrez also published a book chapter in English: Gerardo Gutiérrez. 2013. Negotiating Aztec Tributary Demands in the Tribute Record of Tlapa. In: Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury, Eds. Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. pp 141-168.

Anthropology PUBLICATIONS Mark Mitchell’s 2011 dissertation was published by the University of Arizona Press. Mitchell, Mark. 2013. Crafting History in the Northern Plains; A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750. ISBN 9780816521296

Scott E. Simmons(PhD ’96) co-edited a volume from the University Press of Colorado. Shugar, Aaron N. and Simmons, Scott E. Eds. 2013. Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica; Current Approaches and New Perspectives. ISBN 9781607322009

Paul Leslie and McCabe, J. Terrence. 2013. Response Diversity and Resilience in Social- Ecological Systems. Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 114-143. (Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation)

Cathy Cameron published an article in the June issue of American Anthropologist entitled “How People Moved Among Ancient Societies: Broadening the View.”

Morris, Christopher. 2012. Pharmaceutical Bioprospecting and the Law: The Case of Unckaloabo in a Former Apartheid Homeland of South Africa. Anthropology News 53(10): 6-7. Morris’ article also appears on the front page of this edition of Anthropology News.

Guy Hepp (PhD Candidate) and Stacy Barber (PhD ’05) recently published their findings at Oaxaca: Barber, Sarah B. and Guy D. Hepp 2012. Ancient Aerophones of Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico: The Archaeological and Social Context of Music. In Sound from the Past: The Inter- pretation of Musical Artifacts in an Archaeological Context, edited by R. Eichmann, F. Jianjun, and L- C. Koch, pp. 259-270. Papers from the 7th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, Tianjin, China, 20-25 September, 2010. Studien zur Musikarchäologie VIII, Orient- Archäologie 27. Rahden/Westf.

Lindsay Ofrias co-authored an article published on the City of Boulder's Energy Future website. It’s a policy document that looks at ways that Boulder could further encourage distributed solar generation within city limits. http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/Energy/2013/Distributed_Solar_CU_report.pdf

L.Kaifa Roland will have an article in Cultural Anthropology ‘s Special Edition on Race coming out in August. “T/Racing Belonging through Cuban Tourism” is now in-press.

The BLOGOSPHERE SAVAGE MINDS “Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things” Carole McGranahan’s latest publication on the anthropology blog Savage Minds : http://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/writing-about-bad-sad-hard-things/

All of the hot (literally) action at Woodrow Ruin this summer can be found on Jakob Sedig’s blog: http://woodrowruinarchaeology.wordpress.com/

Oh, what a tangled web...

In many of the world’s traditions, winter is time for weaving tales. So our winter edition aims to regale you with our anthropologists’ field study adventures in web-challenged regions and else- where around the globe. Look for our winter edition during the local holidays.

5 big hit with the students. She also took many additional ALUM & Associates NEWS graduate courses beyond the minimum required for her Alumni and Friends Webpage degree, demonstrating her keen desire to gain a deeper understanding of cultural anthropology. She will remain www.colorado.edu/anthropology/people/dept_friends.html part of our memories in the Department. **************************************************** Sonya Maria Johnson (Dual BA 2000 with Ethnic Studies, Joanna Mishtal (PhD ’06) Assistant Professor, University of Summa cum laude) finished a dual PhD in Socio-cultural Central Florida, Orlando, won the Excellence in Undergrad- Anthropology and African American & African Studies at uate Teaching Award for the College of Sciences and the Michigan State University in August 2012. Her dissertation university-wide Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is entitled Bones Cry Out: Palo Monte/Mayombe in Santia- Award! She credits Donna Goldstein, her advisor at CU, “… go de Cuba, Cuba. She is currently completing a post-doc because you taught me how to teach and the dedication at Michigan State with the African Atlantic Research Team to mentoring!!” Let’s say she was also an apt student. and will be pursuing a career in the academy. David Hoffman (PhD ’06) Assistant Professor at Mississippi Marni LaFleur (PhD ’12) accepted a three-year post- State University, recently won the College of Arts & Scienc- doctoral position at the Veterinary University of Vienna, es teaching award in Social & Behavioral Sciences. Hoff- funded through the Austrian Science Foundation. She will man commented, “I would be remiss if I did not salute all have a salary and some research money, but is working on those people that inspire(d) me…” a grant application to continue her work in Madagascar. Krista Fish (PhD ’10) accepted a position as Assistant Pro- Caroline S. Conzelman (PhD ’07, Director of the Global fessor at Colorado College, where she has been an Instruc- Residential Academic Program at UCB) was chosen by tor for the past few years. study abroad students as one of two Champions of Inter- national Education. Heather Williams (ANTH Lecturer, PhD 2011) has been working for the Boulder County Health Improvement Col- Judy Regensteiner (PhD ’84) has been named Endowed laborative (BCHIC) which is a program designed to improve Chair in Women’s Health Research at the UC Health Sci- the quality, efficiency and accessibility of health care and ences Center...Thanks to more than $2 million in private public health services for all patients in the communi- support — including a $1 million lead gift — the Center for ty. Williams coordinated a small project designed Women’s Health Research (CWHR) at the University of Col- to provide information about patients’ experiences within orado Anschutz Medical Campus has successfully complet- the local health care and services system with the aim of ed an 18-month effort to endow a chair for the center’s improving access to health services in the community and directorship. The inaugural holder of the Judith and Joseph communication between service providers. Namino Glantz Wagner Endowed Chair in Women’s Health Research is (ANTH Adjunct Faculty) created this position and several Judith G. Regensteiner, PhD, School of Medicine professor research internships with Anthropology graduate students and CWHR director. With this chair — the first of its kind at in mind. We thank her most sincerely. the University of Colorado and one of few in the nation directed toward women’s health research — the CWHR Colleen Scanlan Lyons (PhD '10) won an award from the has helped to ensure the future of women’s health re- Center for the Advancement of Research and teaching in search and sex difference research at the Anschutz Medical the Social Sciences to develop a course on “Leadership in Campus: http://connections.cu.edu/across-cu/successful- Sustainable Development: A Course and CU Network.” fundraising-effort-leads-to-cwhr-endowed-chair/ Courtney (Lee, MA ‘06) Ricci has a new son, Blake Henry Margaret "Peggy" Slack Valvo (MA ANTH) Ricci. Congratulations to Courtney and Steve! February 8, 1945 – February 2, 2013 Many of us in the Anthropology Department at CU re- member Peggy as a dedicated graduate student who was Please send us your news. eventually regarded virtually like a colleague. Margaret [email protected] ("Peggy") worked as a wonderful TA in Dennis McGilvray’s Department of Anthropology course on the culture of the Tamils, where she helped to 233 UCB / 350 Hale Science Bldg. devise several clever classroom teaching simulations, in- University of Colorado Boulder cluding a Hindu-style arranged marriage game that was a Boulder, CO 80309-0233 (303) 492-2547

6 FOREVER ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Cris Campbell (PhD student) is still blogging away on the Genealogy of Religion at: http://genealogyreligion.net/ Should be quite an interesting dissertation. Image above from his blogsite.

Anthropology Inc. From the Atlantic magazine, more to cheer our cultural anthropologists: “Microsoft is said to be the second-largest employer of anthropologists in the world.” And with good reason, because, “If you're selling a personal computer in China, the whole concept of ‘personal’ is culturally wrong.”

Crowdfunding Your Research Jakob Sedig (PhD candidate) hit upon a novel alternative to grant-writing in times of lean resources: crowdfunding his research project. The authorities at CU decided his idea was a good one and are in the process of formulating final guidelines for the entire campus. He was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for $19,570 that covers the cost of field equipment, lodging, per diem, transportation, and artifact analysis for his research at Woodrow Ruin, but needed a bit more.

Eugenie Scott to Step Down at Science Education Center short film on the collaborative archeological work they SCIENCE Vol. 340 10 May 2013 p. 665 NEWS are conducting in Glacier National Park entitled, Alpine After 26 years, Eugenie Scott [former faculty at UCB] will Archeology in the Land of the Blackfeet, Kootenai, let someone else shoulder the burden of defending evolu- Pend d'Oreille and Salish. The film will be screened in a tion and climate change against the naysayers. The found- University of Idaho film festival organized by graduate stu- ing executive director and public face of the National Cen- dents. You can watch it online here: http://youtu.be/ ter for Science Education announced her retirement...from ifmdf2RHsK8. Abstract: a job that hasn’ t gotten any easier but perhaps has never This presentation highlights an ongoing collaborative ice been more important. “She ’s incomparable, irreplaceable, patch survey in Glacier National Park (GNP), USA, involving and indispensable, ” says Kenneth Miller, a biology profes- the National Park Service, Confederated Salish and Koote- sor at Brown University and a key figure in one of the cen- nai Tribes, Blackfeet Nation, U. Colorado, U. Arizona, and ter ’s most decisive victories, a 2005 court case that blunted U. Wyoming. In 2010 these groups formed the Glacier Cul- an attack on evolution by the Dover, Pennsylvania, school tural Resources Management Group (GCRMG), which set district. He says that Scott was masterful at building the cultural and scientific guidelines for handling and collecting coalition needed to win the case. artifacts in the field as well as their subsequent analysis Trained as a physical anthropologist, Scott joined the fledg- and documentation. To date, results include the identifica- ling organization based in Oakland, California, in 1987 and tion of numerous paleobiological samples, but no definitive built it into a 15-person, $1.2 million-a-year operation. “I archaeological material. The ca. 9 minute film pro- think all nonprofits hope someday to put themselves out of vides perspective on the project through interviews with business, ” says Scott, now 67. “But these issues are like tribal members regarding the uses of alpine and sub-alpine background radiation. Once you start to look for the oppo- areas as well as through interviews with researchers, and nents, you ’ll find them.”www.sciencemag.org student and tribal crews. Authors: Glacier Cultural Resources Management Group Craig Lee (PhD ’07) is currently a visiting professor in Mon- (GCRMG) tana State University’s Department of Sociology & Anthro- Contacts: Pei Lin Yu, NPS ([email protected]) or Lon pology. Lee and colleagues at INSTAAR recently made a Johnson, NPS ([email protected])

7 Dissertation Fellowship Awards

Marnie Thomson spent 16 months conducting her dissertation fieldwork, primarily in Nyarugusu refugee camp in Western Tanzania with two supplemental research trips to UNHCR offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Geneva, Switzerland. Her dissertation, "Solutions and Dissolutions: Congolese Refugees, Humanitarian Governance and Memories of a Ne- glected Conflict," relates refugee experiences of dislocation and their memories of violence to reveal the politics of humanitarian intervention in both the DRC and Tanzania. By researching humanitarianism across bor- ders, Thomson illuminates the effects of the UN declaring [on the one hand] that the “ongoing conflict in the DRC is solution-less”, while praising Tanzania for finding solutions, i.e. closing camps and repatriating refugees. In both countries, solutions or lack thereof constitute a form of dissolution: dissolving refugee camps in Tanzania and discharging UN Peacekeep- ing forces in Congo. As such, Thomson's dissertation analyzes the ways in which humanitarian solutions and dissolution converge and how it affects Congolese refugees' everyday lives. Thomson also won a grant from the CU Center to AdvanceResearch and Teaching in the Social Sciences to visit her primary fieldsite, Nyarugusu refugee camp, during this critical time. As the only remaining camp left in Tanzania, it is now the sole focus of the UN and the government. Thomson also hopes to learn more about the UN-sanctioned bri- gade Tanzania is leading into the DRC. Her advisor is Carole McGranahan. Guy Hepp’s archaeological dissertation research focuses on investigating the relationships between key social transitions during the Early Formative period (1900-850 BCE) on the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica. In particular, transitions to living in sedentary villages, increasing agricultural reliance, and the birth of hierarchical social complexity all helped to define Early Formative Mesoamerican society and to shape the later pre-Columbian history of the region. Guy’s excavations at the site of La Consentida in Oaxaca, Mexico, have sought evidence of the ways in which these key social trans- formations may have been interrelated. For example, information pertaining to mortuary practices, communal archi- tectural projects, public feasting events, diet, and art and iconography all help to paint a nuanced picture of ancient life in this part of the New World. Various phases of his project have been aided by funds from a Fulbright/García Robles Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. He is advised by Art Joyce. Michaela Howells was nominated by the department for a Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship and was selected by the university for one of these coveted awards. Howells’ work focuses on reproduction and human biology. Her dissertation research addresses the role of psychosocial stress in the pregnancy outcomes of women in Ameri- can Samoa. Howells is primarily interested in how maternal social status and experiences impact neonate delivery characteristics. Her research utilizes ethnographic and bi- omarker data while working in conjunction with the women’s health specialists at the Department of Health and the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa. Her research represents the first longitudinal and naturalistic study to address how psychosocial stress stemming from culture change and social status impacts pregnancy outcomes and was funded by a dissertation improvement grant from the National Science Foundation as well as a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from The Wenner Gren Foundation. Darna Dufour is her advisor. Howells and co-authors Richard Bender (PhD student), et al. were awarded the 2012 BAS student prize for outstanding presentation at this year’s AAA meetings. The Biological Anthropology Section praised their presentation entitled "You Just Have to Wait: The Impact of Marital Status on the Pregnancy Outcomes of Samoan Women,” commenting that it “…reflected high quality scholarship”...and that they “…are excited to bear witness to the development of these new research projects in biological anthropology. We truly appreciate your involvement in the BAS section of the AAA. Please continue to participate in BAS as your careers go forward.”

8 Limelight

A lead story in the January 23 edition of the New Yorker online refers readers to Carole McGranahan’s co-edited special issue of the journal Cultural Anthropology on the topic of the self-immolations in Tibet. Very exciting to see anthropology included in The New Yorker! http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2013/01/fire-extinguishers- tibet-and-tiananmen-square.html?mobify=0 or go directly to http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/526 . Jonathan Mirsky has an article in the Tuesday, April 9 New York Review of Books on US Tibet policy, including a discussion of Carole McGranahan’s book Arrested Histories as well as former CIA officer Ken Knaus' two books on Tibet and the CIA. See http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/09/cias-cancelled-war-tibet/

“Sex, Lies, and Separating Science from Ideology”; Paul Shankman’s Dogged Pursuit Paul Shankman’s research on Margaret Mead’s legacy is featured in a recent online edition of The Atlantic magazine. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/sex-lies-and- separating-science-from-ideology/273169/ The Margaret Mead papers are featured in the spring ezine from CU Arts and Sciences’ reporter Clint Talbott: CU-Boulder anthropologist finds stark evidence that Mead’s inde- fatigable critic misrepresented her work with ‘layer upon layer of error’ http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2013/04/ margaret-meads-good-name-redeemed/ http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2011/12/12/december-sana-news/

Jen Shannon and Carole McGranahan are featured on this new ASSETT website on CU faculty teaching with technology. Alpha order gives us top billing---but everyone's projects are worth taking a look at. Kira Hall is featured too. http://assett.colorado.edu/spotlight-on-as-faculty-teaching-with-technology  Jen Shannon on “Helping Anthropology Students Collect Field Data”  Carole McGranahan on “Teaching with Technology”  KiraHall on “VoiceThread as a Teaching Tool for Courses on Language and Society” Exhibits A New History for the Ancient Southwest—Steve Lekson’s exhibition features more than 100 rarely exhibited ceramics from the museum's celebrated SW collection with stunning photographs of ancient southwestern ruins by noted aerial photographer Adriel Heisey. Take a video preview here: http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/MFS/video_S_Lekson.html? 13+UPDATE&utm_campaign=Feb.+2013+Update&utm_medium=email or access a KGNU radio interview about the exhibit here: http://www.angelicak.com/2013/03/cu-boulders-museum-of-natural-history.html? utm_source=March+Update+2013+UPDATE&utm_campaign=March+2013+Update&utm_medium=email “Maintaining Pastoral Identity in a Changing World—McCabe Research Exhibit The Institute of Behavioral Science is pleased to announce a research exhibit featuring the work of J. Terrence McCabe, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Environment and Society Program, IBS. “Maintaining Pastoral Identity in a Changing World: The Turkana and Maasai People of East Africa” includes objects provided by Dr. J. Terrence McCabe and Dr. Judith McCabe. The exhibit also includes Dr. McCabe’s long-term field research photography in northwest Ken- ya and northern Tanzania depicting pastoral livelihoods and adaptation to changing social, political and environmental challenges. To Feel the Earth; Moccasins in the Southwest—exhibit co-curated by grad student, Kendall Tallmadge Prior to European contact, indigenous peoples in the Southwest wore sandals, with some examples dating from over a thousand years ago. While archaeological records do not indicate exactly when moccasins were introduced, they are considered one of the oldest forms of human footwear and continue to be made and worn today. This exhibition showcases the art and history of moccasin making among various tribes in the American Southwest and their importance within Native American communities. http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/exhibits/current-exhibits .

9 KUDOS to our faculty and grads

Matt Sponheimer’s research into ancient hominin diets and evolution made headlines again recently. His team’s high tech tests on tooth enamel indicate a dramatic shift away from a chimpanzee-style diet about 4 million years ago. “It is quite possible that these changes in diet were an important step in becoming human,” Sponheimer postulates. Try one of these links for the full story: http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18733535-survey-suggests-human-ancestors-transformed-diet-around-lucys-time http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22752937 http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/06/03/diet-likely-changed-game-some-hominids-35-million-years-ago-says-cu-boulder Or a podcast at http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/mattSponheimerPodcast.mp3

Jen Shannon began a collaborative research project in 2010 with the Man- dan Hidatsa Arikara Nation and the grandchildren of Rev. Harold Case, a mis- sionary on the Fort Berthold reservation where the nation is located in North Dakota. Together, they are documenting the life and times of Rev. Case and will produce a video documentary, a new photographic archive of Case family photos, and an exhibition. CU History Professor Lil Fenn, graduate student Kendall Tallmadge, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jen Shannon traveled to the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation this past May to present their work so far to the community in a presentation at the tribal college, and to continue the oral history video project. During their visit, Cal- Edwin Benson, Clavin Grinnell, Lil Fenn, vin Grinnell, tribal historian and one of their research partners, brought Kendall Tallmadge, and Jen Shannon them to Mr. Edwin Benson's home to interview him for the project .

Steven Leigh gave a presentation last winter for the University of California San Diego symposium on the Evolution of Human Diet and Nutrition: http://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/the-evolution-of-human-nutrition . Leigh will contribute a paper that investigates the role of the intestinal microbiome in the evolution of human diet.

Dennis McGilvray delivered four invited lectures and four conference papers during the 2012-2013 academic year, including two talks in Switzerland (Zurich and Bern). His topics ranged from Tamil student wall-art, to Tamil puberty celebrations in Canada, to Muslim identity in Sri Lanka, to matrilocal dowry and marriage after the 2004 tsunami. He also delivered the commencement address to Anthro- pology graduates this spring, warning of the imminent arrival of MOOCs (massive open on-line courses) on the Boulder campus. At left is a screen shot from his presentation at the Tamil Studies Conference at UC Berke- ley in May 2013. Among the highlights of the annual AAA Conference was McGilvray’s presentation, “From Sa- cred Baths to Stretch Limos: Tamil Puberty Celebrations in Sri Lanka and Canada” with R. Cheran (University of Windsor, Ontario). Recent Anthropology lecturer Sara Jamieson (currently with CU’s Residential Academic Program) organized the panel: Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Female Puberty Rites Revisited.

Michelle Sauther, Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology, is currently embarking on a new study in South Africa. The site, called Lajuma, is a unique, high altitude mist veldt. She and her colleagues, Dr. Frank Cuozzo (University of North Dakota), Dr. Krista Fish (Colorado College, PhD “10) and Dr. Sauther's student, Mike Strinden are studying the dental, disease and behavioral ecology of nocturnal greater galagos (locally called bushbabies, due to their plaintive cries that sound like human infants). Sauther and bushbaby pictured at right.

10 Donna Goldstein has been named Outstanding Mentor by the CU Graduate School and, obviously, her grad students. As director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences, Goldstein is spearheading two educational initiatives of intense national and international interest on Community Impacts of Energy Sources, detailed at http://cartss.colorado.edu/Initiatives.html

Payson Sheets was awarded an NSF grant to explore the political economy and the Sacbé at Cerén this coming summer. With a total of $113,492 Sheets will include Dr. Chris Dixon and grad students Zan Halmbacher and Rachel Egan on the excavation crew, along with a Salvadoran student (Rocio Herrera). They’re chasing a Sacbé (formal Maya road- way) that they discovered during their last big field season in 2011 to the south of the Maya village of Cerén. They want to discover where it goes inside the village. And they’ll be doing paleoethnobotanical research recovering micro- scopic seeds and phytoliths to determine what plant remains were being transported along the sacbé. The inhabit- ants had just harvested over 10 tons of manioc tubers before the Loma Caldera eruption that buried the village.

Art Joyce’s grant from the Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program is featured in the UCB Arts & Sciences web magazine http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2012/11/anthropologist-wins-grant-to-study-religion-in -ancient-mesoamerica .

Rachel Fleming (PhD candidate) was one of 12 graduate students chosen from across various social science disciplines to attended a three-day intensive dissertation workshop with the SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Association of Asian Studies on “Family, Gender, and Generation” in Asia. Her project is titled: "Spaces of Gendered Belong- ing: Modernity, Generational Change, and Professional Women’s Friendships in Bangalore, India."

Jamie Forde (PhD student) has just been awarded a junior fellowship for next academic year at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, administered by the Trustees for Harvard University, in Washington D.C. The fellowship provides lodging, an office at the facility, and a living stipend, and will support him while writing his doctoral dissertation.

Catherine Cameron was invited to give the Cynthia Irwin-Williams Memorial Lecture at Eastern New Mexico University on “The Bluff Great House and The Chaco Phe- nomenon”. The Bluff great house site is located on the San Juan River in southeastern Utah. It was the focus of six seasons of excavation research conducted by the University of Colorado. Bluff had some involvement with Chaco Canyon, the great Pueblo center of the 9th to 12th centuries and is one of the few Chacoan sites in this region to have been recently excavated. The location, in use since at least A.D. 500, saw the construction of a multi- storied Chacoan great house, great kiva, earthern “berm,” and prehistoric road segments in the late 11th or early 12th centuries. The great house continued to be used (perhaps most intensively) during the post-Chaco era until about A.D. 1250. Southeastern Utah contains a number of Chaco and post-Chaco great house communities and CU also conducted survey and test excavations at the Comb Wash community about 25 miles north of Bluff. Their primary research questions focused on Bluff’s relation to the complex developments in Chaco Canyon and the nature of post- Chaco use of great houses both at Bluff and Comb Wash.

Matt Sponheimer is Co-PI on an NSF grant “Integrating Multidisciplinary Tools to Study Plio-Pleisticene Paleoecology of Early Hominins from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia”.

Katy Putsavage received the Scholar Award from PEO for $15,000 over the next two semesters to write her dissertation. Oh, the luxury of it all.

Magda Stawkowski was admitted to the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project's Summer 2013 Nuclear Boot Camp at the former AEC HIGH NATO communications relay site in the village of Allumiere near Rome, Italy. The award covers tuition, round-trip airfare, accommodations, and meals.

2012-2013 Graduate Degrees and Undergraduate Honors

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Christine Catherine Dixon: Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation title: Farming and Power: Classic Period Maya Manioc and Maize Cultivation at Cerén, El Salvador Advisor: Payson Sheets

Brian Scott Naze: Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation title: Evaluating Traditional and Alternative Perspec- tives on Paleoindian Land Use: the View from the Central Plains and Southern Rocky Mountains Advisor: Douglas Bamforth

MASTER OF ARTS Lee Ann Allen: Master of Arts Focus: Indigenous rights and NGOs in Central America Advisor: L. Kaifa Roland

Somraj Basu: Master of Arts Focus: Development of Tibetan Medical Systems in Exile Smile! May ceremonies, with Undergrad Advisor Advisor: Carole McGranahan Mindy Wilding on stage.

Nicholas Edward Damp: Master of Arts Thesis title: Zuni Chacoan Communities: The Archaeology of Village of the Great Kivas and the Chaco Era in the Zuni Region Advisor: Catherine Cameron

Esteban José Fernandez: Master of Arts Thesis title: Gold and Tribute in Aztec Tlapa: An Ethnohistoric and Experimental Analysis Advisor: Gerardo Gutiérrez

Theresa Anne Heindel: Master of Arts Thesis Title: The Mystery of Malanga: Possible Roles of Zanthosoma violaceum in Ancient Maya Diet and Agriculture Advisor: Payson Sheets

Sarah Gabrielle Laundry: Master of Arts Thesis title: Open Pit Pottery Firing on the High Plains: The Evidence from the Central Plains Tradition King Site (25DW166) Advisor: Doug Bamforth. Sarah is a contract archaeologist in South Dakota.

Philip Duran Stephens Master of Arts Focus: Biocultural perspectives in modern medicine; working towards a better Department Chair, Bert Covert doctor-patient relationship Advisor: Darna Dufour. Philip has been admitted to the CU Medical School.

12 UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS HONORS THESIS TITLES Jacki Erin Altman Summa Cum Laude The Performance of a Maya King: The Orientation, Iconography, and Manipulations of Stelae of Copan’s Robin Rosetta Fiore King Waxaklajuun Ubaah K’awhiil Claire Catherine McFadyen Robin Rosetta Fiore What Defines Us: An Analysis of Grieving Behavior in Non-Human Primates as a Potential Evolutionary Magna Cum Laude: Adaptation Jacki Erin Altman Michael John Thomas Fitch Mindy Cristina Bridges Community Resources: Social Activism and Community Responses to Hydraulic Fracturing in Boulder Michael John Thomas Fitch County Kacey Chandler Grauer Piper Rose McMillin Piper Rose McMillin Understanding the Cultural, Social, and Biological Environment Where Eating Disorders Thrive Morgan Marie Mitchell Morgan Marie Mitchell Lindsay Anne Mullineaux A Discussion of Trauma and Violence: The Human Remains from Pecos Pueblo and Forked Lightning John Harding Vertovec, Jr. Lindsay Anne Mullineaux Elizabeth Jane Wagstaffe The Case for DNA: An Analysis of Early DNA Profiling in the Courtroom

Cum Laude: Shane Rebecca Wyenn Sarah Rapalje Bogart Corey Alexander Herrmann Stephanie Marie McGraw

Val B. and Helen W. Fischer Award Michael John Thomas Fitch

With Distinction: Jacki Erin Altman Amy Grace Austin Alison Elizabeth Bergh Colleen Elizabeth Carey Robin Rosetta Fiore Phoebe Anne Flanigan Kara Lavonne Gordon Elijah John Jimmerson Commencement Photos by Quyet Le Katharine Woodford Lindauer Bryan L. McCoy Meghan Kiele McFarland Awards: Jordan James Miranda 2013 Beverly Sear’s Graduate Student Research Grants Morgan Marie Mitchell We are pleased to announce that these Anthropology students have received Beverly Sears Grants to Melissa Deanne Nielsen fund the research outlined in their proposals: Congratulations to our graduate students: Audrey Michelle Pazmino Michelle Beach, Kate Fischer, Guy Hepp, Jason Scott, Jakob Sedig, Michael Strinden, Kylee Ann Smith Marnie Thomson, and Emily Wigington Lauryn Mamie Sparks Katharin Marie Unke Alice Hamilton Archaeology Award Jodye Danae Whitesell In a rare move, the Archaeology faculty selected two outstanding PhD students for the Alice Hamilton Meghan Elizabeth Zibby Archaeology Award this year: Guy Hepp and Katy Putsavage will each receive a bronze-oak plaque Holly Elizabeth Zink and $1000. Dig that!

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Congratulations to this year’s grad student winners of Goldstein Altman Awards:

Allison Formanack, Willi Lempert, Lindsay Ofrias, Jason Scott, Magda Stawkowski, Marnie Thomson, and Kathryn White

Awards from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences

Allison Formanack—for summer pre-dissertation fieldwork in mobile home communities in Lincoln, Nebraska Meryleen Mena — Graduate Fellow Funds in support of her project entitled "Political Theatre as Human Rights: Social Memories of State Violence in Brazil" Jason Scott—award in support of project analyzing digital development projects in Brazilian shantytowns(favelas) that were recently recuperated from armed drug gangs Willi Lempert —for research in the community of Yungngora, Australia, where he’s learning the local language, developing relationships, and working on collaborative radio and video projects Kate Fischer —for research comparing coffee production in three different regions in Costa Rica, as part of her larger dissertation work, entitled, “The Ends of Coffee: State, Work, and Identity in Post-CAFTA Costa Rica” Marnie Thomson—for dissertation fieldwork, primarily in Nyarugusu refugee camp in Western Tanzania (See Dis sertation Fellowship Awards story on page 8.) Matt Sponheimer—“Plant Foods and Human Evolution (in support of his grad students’ research)” Douglas Bamforth—“Radiocarbon Dating the King Site” Donna Goldstein—“Genetic Futures of the Nuclear Age: Anthropologist and Human Geneticist Dr. James V. Neel” Lindsay Ofrias (MA student)—Oil Waste Cleanup in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Citizenship, the State, and Transna tionalism

14 Food and Travel Page

NOT IN THE NEWS The Chelyabinsk meteor struck just shy of the Kazakh border, where Magda Stawkowski (PhD candidate) has been doing research on radioactive pollution. While most news outlets ex- pressed relief that the meteor didn’t strike one of many nuclear armament production facilities near Chelyabinsk, Magda shares this less-reassuring report: “…the meteor landed near the Mayak plutonium reprocessing plant in Russia!!!! It is one of the most polluted areas on the Russian soil.” Here is one story link: How I Spent my Christmas Vacation http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/nuclear.htm By Gerardo Gutiérrez

DESPLAZADOS POR LA POBREZA Gerardo Gutiérrez Mendoza explica el signifi- cado de este lienzo sobre migración en Chiepetlán, municipio de Tlapa. FOTO: Cor- tesía Salvador Cisneros Silva

Some people love their work enough to make presentations during the Winter Break as far away as Guerrero, Mexico. Check out this re- FIELD SCHOOL port in the daily La Jornada: http://

www.lajornadaguerrero.com.mx/2012/12/28/ Doug Bamforth has taken the field school to Nebraska for several successful summers now. He had an exceptionally good gradu- Ancient Butterballs ate student assisting him this year.Emily Wigington (MA stu- The Scientistmagazine caught up with what we dent) reports, “Located near the town of Chadron, nine students already knew about the domestication of turkeys, helped to excavate a kiln and unexplained anomalies seen on the i.e. that Mayans had done so 1,000 years earlier geophysics map at the Kings site. Off days were comprised of than previously thought. field trips to local archaeological, historical, and paleontological So this fact , combined areas like Fort Robinson, Hudson-Meng Bison Kill, and the with Payson Sheets’ inves- Wounded Knee massacre site. Of course, there was much fun to tigations into manioc culti- be had including a team mascot—a toad lawn ornament—and vation and fermentation, plenty of trowel puns [pictured at left] to keep spirits high in the makes for good Thanksgiv- summer heat .” ing menu-planning. Turkey Emily’s summer got off to a quick start with a trip to Mexico City with a side of manioc, any- immediately after the end of the spring semester. She began one? http://www.thescientist.com/? work at the INAH technical archives and the general archives to articles.view/articleNo/33360/title/Ancient- study the archaeology and ethnohistory of the islands of the Ba- sin of Mexico. Like most projects, her research took an unex- pected turn as her thesis topic changed to hydraulic works of the basin of Mexico, focusing on the ecological and social implica- tions of maintenance and control. In between archival research, there was plenty of time for some perusing around the city as she and grad pals Alicia Hernandez and Anna Schneider ex- plored the Templo Mayor, Tlateloco, Cerro de Guadalupe and Chapultepec Park. As soon as Emily returned, she had to switch gears from Mexico to Nebraska, accompanying Dr. Bamforth on his field school.