Contact Us

The School of Anthropology
1009 East South Campus Drive
P.O.Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
Tel: 520.621.2585
Fax: 520.621.2088
Anthro@Arizona.edu

School Director

Dr. Barbara Mills
Haury Anthropology Building,
Room 210
Tel: 520.621.6298
Fax: 520.621.2088
bmills@arizona.edu

News
  • Twentieth Annual Sabbagh Lecture
    02/14/2012 - 15:04

    Juan R.I. Cole, Ph.D., Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will give this year's Sabbagh lecture. In his talk, “The Arab Spring One Year Later,” Professor Cole will “will review the political and social changes in the Arab World during the past year and consider what they mean to workers, women, intellectuals and businesses in the region. He will consider the outcome of the Tunisian and Egyptian elections, and survey continued protest movements, as well as look at the role of armed forces in Egypt and Libya during the transition” (from the SoA website).

  • Shane Miller’s Blog Cited in ESPN Magazine
    02/14/2012 - 14:55

    SoA graduate student Shane Miller applied his training in regression statistics, which he normally applies to the spatial analysis of Paleoindian lithic technologies, to answer one of college football’s most pressing questions: does recruiting the highest-ranked up-and-coming players result in more wins for college teams?

  • Sheridan Lecture, Book Signing, and More
    02/14/2012 - 13:43

    Research Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology Thomas E. Sheridan will deliver a lecture titled “The Sleeping Giant vs. the Politics of Fear: Arizona's Hispanic Society in the 21st Century.” The lecture is the second of three talks in the AZ Centennial Lecture Series being held in conjunction with the UA Library Special Collections' yearlong exhibition “Becoming Arizona: The Valentine State.” Professor Sheridan’s lecture, will be held Feb. 14, 2012, at 7:00–8:30 p.m. in Special Collections. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception, book sale, and book signing. More information is available here.

  • Quote of the Day
    02/14/2012 - 13:11

    Recently, Professor of Anthropology and Geosciences Vance Holliday was thumbing through An Archaeologist’s Book of Quotations (K. Kris Hirst, 2010, Left Coast Press) and there, on p. 121 under the topic “Constructing the Past,” was our own Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lars Fogelin (a couple of pages after quotes from Wheeler, Capote, and Trigger, and just ahead of Melville!).

  • Promotion of Carlos del Cairo Silva
    02/07/2012 - 12:47

    Carlos del Cairo Silva, who successfully defended his dissertation under the direction of Dr. Tom Sheridan (Research Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology, The Southwest Center and SoA) in December 2011, has just been promoted to associate professor of anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Carlos, who will receive his PhD from the University of Arizona in May 2012, is the author or co-author of sixteen articles or chapters in peer-reviewed journals on Amazonian anthropology and co-editor of Amazonia Contemporánea, which was recently published by the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia.

  • Master’s Research Published in Plains Anthropologist
    02/07/2012 - 12:46

    The most recent issue of Plains Anthropologist includes an article based upon Wendi Field Murray's SoA Master’s research on the cultural significance of eagles and eagle trapping sites along the Missouri River to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people (see title and abstract below).

  • Annika Ericksen Receives Student/Faculty Interaction Grant
    01/31/2012 - 13:45

    Doctoral candidate Annika Ericksen has been awarded a student/faculty interaction grant of $170 from the UA Office of Student Affairs. The award will be used for team-building activities with undergraduate preceptors in her ecological anthropology course. Preceptors will help facilitate small group discussions and activities in the classroom and on D2L, serve as mentors to other students, and share feedback and ideas with the instructor. Information about interaction grants is available here. Both TAs and faculty are eligible to apply for these grants. Details about preceptors and the teaching teams program can be found here.

  • Two SoA Dissertations on 40 Best of 2011 List
    01/31/2012 - 13:42

    Dissertations by Laura Eichelberger and Karin Friederic, both 2011 SoA PhDs and both advisees of Linda Green (Professor of Anthropology and Research Anthropologist, BARA), were named on a top 40 list of best dissertations in socio-cultural anthropology in 2011.

  • SoA Welcomes New Residential Scholar Anna Waldstein
    01/24/2012 - 13:29

    The latest Residential Scholar at the University Indian Ruins is Dr. Anna Waldstein, a lecturer (assistant professor) in medical anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent who has been granted sabbatical from January through April 2012.

    Dr. Waldstein is an ecological anthropologist with research interests in medical anthropology and ethnobotany. During her stay at the University of Arizona she will be writing a book about healthcare in the United States. This work is based on her doctoral research, which focused on women's popular medical knowledge and self-care practices among Mexican migrants in the Southeastern United States.

  • Yancey Orr Accepts Position at University of Alberta
    01/24/2012 - 13:24

    Sociocultural PhD candidate Yancey Orr has accepted the position of assistant professor of anthropology at The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The University of Alberta is a R1 university and is currently ranked fourth among Canadian universities.