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)
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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 |
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Dr. Gordon Bronitsky (Ph.D. Arizona, 1977), President of Bronitsky and Associates, has just learned that the US embassy has approved funding for a Navajo/Mapuche cultural summit. Dr. Bronitsky says the summit, which he will organize, will be held in Chile during Spring 2019. It will be a follow up to Bronitsky and Associates’ success in bringing Mapuche hip hop artist Luanko to perform in Albuquerque last year. Luanko created a video about his visit to Albuquerque and the... Read more Post date: Wed, 09/12/2018 - 16:41 |
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School of Anthropology associate Dr. Deni Seymour (Ph.D. Arizona, 1990) will present the lecture “Stalking the Lieutenant: The 1871 Juh-Cushing Ambush Site” as part of the Arizona Pathfinders’ Brown Bag Series on October 18 at the Arizona History Museum. Read about the lecture here. Post date: Wed, 09/12/2018 - 16:39 |
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... 
