Colloquia are formal presentations at which the attendance of all graduate students, faculty, and postdocs is requested.
The 2024-2025 Colloquium series represents a slate of talks arranged by various faculty members
Andreana Cunningham, Boston University, August 30th, Stories of biosociality: Diasporic connections across the 19th-century British slave trade.
Kirk French, Penn State University, September 13th, Take a Shot of Anthropology: Using Alcohol and Film to Achieve Broader Impacts.
Angela Storey, University of Louisville, September 20th, Problematically Public: Thinking Ethnographically about Use-ful Urban Things and Places
Tim Beach, University of Texas at Austin, October 25th, Prehispanic Maya Wetland Agroecosystems in the Contexts of the Neotropics
The 2023-2024 Colloquium series was organized by Dr. Crystal Felima:
Meztli Yoalli Rodriguez Aguilera, Loyola Chicago, September 8th, 2023, Grief is a Portal on the Alternative Ontological Times against Environmental Toxicity in Mexico
Mark Schuller, NIU, February 2nd, 2024, Decolonizing Disaster: Local Responses to crises in rural Haiti,
Matthew Kohrman, Stanford, February 16, 2024
Katharine Kolpan, University of Idaho, March 1, 2024,
The 2022-2023 Colloquium series was organized by Dr. Hugo Reyes-Centeno
Gabriela Spears-Rico, October 14th, 2022, Malinche's Refusal: New Visions for a Decolonized Latinidad.
Amanuel Beyin, University of Louisville, November 4th, 2022, Hominin Dispersal Pathways: A view from the Red Sea basin
Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt, December 9th, 2022, A Worldwide View of Matriliny: Using cross-cultural analyses to shed light on human kinship systems.
Debbie Guatelli Steinberg, Ohio State, March 24th, 2023, The Past and Present of Enamel Formation and Dental Development
Kurt Rademaker, Michigan State University, April 14th, 2023, On the Trail of Early South Americans in the Andes
The 2021-2022 Colloquium series was organized by Dr. Elena Sesma
Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty, UK and University of Calgary, September 24th, 2021, The Art and Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua
Julie Velazquez Runk, University of Georgia, December 10th, 2021, Creating Inclusive, Multimodal, Long-term Collaborations
Stacey Camp, February 25th, 2022, A Decade of Lessons from the Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project
Anna Willow, Ohio State University, March 11th, 2022, Doing Good Anthropology in Bad Times
Terrance Weik, University of South Carolina, April 22, 2022, Black Bodies, Burial Grounds and Reparations