The editors of the journal Ethnoarchaeology invited Edwin N. Wilmsen (Ph.D. Arizona, 1967) to write a retrospective on his life and works. The resulting essay, “Someday… Maybe: A Personal Retrospective,” has quite a bit in it about his time here at the UA, and will likely be of interest to many alumni. For those... Read more
Alumni News
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Although he was not an SoA alumnus, Peter J. Mehringer Jr. got his Ph.D. in Geosciences at the UA, and some Anthropology News readers will remember him. Sadly, Dr. Mehringer died in Bardufoss, Norway, on January 3, 2019. Read an obituary from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News here. (Anthro News date: 2/8/2019) Post date: Tue, 04/09/2019 - 16:29 |
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Scott Ryerson (M.A. 1972) passed away in Tucson on December 23, 2018. Scott conducted nearly lifelong research into the ethnic and tourist art of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. He published articles in Kiva and the Journal of the Southwest on Seri ironwood carving and the potters of Mata Ortiz, among others. For many years he also operated an ethnic arts shop in Tucson. (Anthro News date:1/4/2019) Post date: Tue, 04/09/2019 - 14:37 |
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Dr. Gordon Bronitsky (Ph.D. Arizona, 1977) joined other representatives of the Albuquerque Jewish community and the members of the Navajo Nation Church Rock Chapter at their monthly meeting on November 14, 2018. The gathering is described in the November 15 issue of the Gallup Independent. (Digest date: 12/21/2018) Post date: Tue, 02/26/2019 - 15:26 |
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Kurt Dongoske (M.A. Arizona, 1984), principal investigator for Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise (ZCRE), was recently awarded two grants from the Washington, DC Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Trust Services–Tribal Resiliency Program. The first grant (category 1) will support a series of workshops designed to build awareness of the key issues and challenges and develop skills and build internal Tribal capacities necessary to address extreme events and harmful... Read more Post date: Fri, 02/22/2019 - 10:48 |
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Dr. Gordon Bronitsky (Ph.D. Arizona, 1977) joined other representatives of the Albuquerque Jewish community and the members of the Navajo Nation Church Rock Chapter at their monthly meeting on November 14, 2018. The gathering is described in the November 15 issue of the Gallup Independent. Post date: Fri, 12/21/2018 - 11:59 |
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Dr. Gordon Bronitsky (PhD Arizona, 1977) has authored a new article on his work through the nonprofit IndigeNOW! that appears in the latest issue of The Applied Anthropologist (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2017). Read “Beyond ‘What Everybody Knows’: Doing Applied Anthropology by Turning Up the Volume!” here. Post date: Fri, 09/28/2018 - 11:06 |
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William Ventres, MD (MA Medical Anthropology, 1991) has recently been named the Ben Saltzman Distinguished Chair in Rural Family Medicine at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Dr. Ventres works on health disparity in both the United States and Latin America. See a photo of Dr. Ventres’ investiture and read more about him... Read more Post date: Tue, 09/25/2018 - 16:03 |
Dr. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta (Ph.D. Arizona, 2006) announces two new publications. First is the book Chiapa de Corzo, which is about the site of the same name. In the collective imagination, when we talk about the state of Chiapas and its pre-Hispanic past, the first thing that comes to mind are the... 
Congratulations to D. Shane Miller (Ph.D. Arizona, 2014), who was presented the CB Moore Award at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in 2018 in Augusta, GA, earlier this month. Dr. Miller is currently Assistant Professor in Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State... 
