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AIA Honor for Moses!
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Renkert Is NSF-DDRIG Awardee
Since the 1970s, comedores populares, or communal kitchens, have... Read more |
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World Anthro Day 2019
Get ready—World Anthropology Day occurs on February 21 this year! The School of Anthropology will be celebrating with the 27th Annual Sabbagh Lecture at 7:00 p.... Read more |
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Here Before You Know It: 2019 Sabbagh Lecture, February 21
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Help SoA at Science City for Book Festival 2019!
The 2019 Tucson Festival of Books is coming up soon! This year’s Festival of Books will be held on the University of Arizona Mall from Saturday, March 10 through Sunday March 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Tucson Festival of... Read more |
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Emerita Kennedy Is Inaugural AQA Distinguished Achievement Awardee At the November 2018 American Anthropology Association Conference, the Association for Queer Anthropology presented Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies at UA, with its Distinguished Achievement Award: In recognition of Oustanding Accomplishements and Contributions to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Anthropology. On presenting the Award, Professor Margot Weiss said about Kennedy’s work: |
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Alumni News: In Memoriam: Peter Mehringer 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) |
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Save the Date! 2019 Sabbagh Lecture, February 21
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SoA at San Diego AIA Meeting Current School of Anthropology faculty and students made a strong showing at the 120th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Diego, California, January 3–6, 2019. A list of presentations appears below. Said David Gilman Romano, Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology, remarked, “Arizona was everywhere!” Paper Presentations |
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Haury Grant for Carney
Dr. Carney provided this project description: In collaboration with the Dunbar Coalition, Inc., El Rio Health Centers, and the Coalition for... Read more |
Graduate student Victoria Moses was selected as runner-up for the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Award by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Her paper “Powerful Pups: Dog Sacrifice in Early Rome, a Case Study from the Area Sacra di Sant’Omobono” was reviewed by a standing committee of the AIA and will be... 
Sarah Renkert, an SoA grad student, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project titled “Fading Communal Kitchens: Neoliberalism and the Reshaping of Community-based Food Aid in Lima, Perú.”
It’s just around the corner! The 2019 Sabbagh Lecture, number 27 in the annual series, will take place on Thursday, February 21. As in years past, the lecture will be presented through the generosity of Drs. Entisar (Vivi; Ph.D. Arizona, 1992) and Adib Sabbagh. The guest speaker this... 
Sign Up Now to Volunteer for the Anthropology Booth at the Festival of Books!
It’s time to mark your calendars! The 2019 Sabbagh Lecture, number 27 in the annual series, will take place on Thursday, February 21. As in years past, the lecture will be presented through the generosity of Drs. Entisar (Vivi; Ph.D. Arizona, 1992) and Adib Sabbagh. The guest speaker... 
Assistant Professor Megan Carney, who is also Director, Center for Regional Food Studies, recently received a seed grant from the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice.
