Former UK museum director Mary Lucas Powell was recently cited in The Scientist for her research tracing the prehistoric origins of treponematosis, a complex of diseases that includes syphilis.
Derreck Kayongo, a refugee of the Ugandan civil war, will share his experiences as a refugee and how he turned his struggles into an opportunity.
With offerings from anthropology to WRD, UK Education Abroad is working to help more students study in Mexico.
Decades after their removal from Kenya, American museums are working to return memorial totems, known as vigango.
Sponsor: Anthro Graduate Student Association
Dr. Theodore Bestor, Professor of Social Anthropology, Harvard U. Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Research Interests: Food systems and culture; the global fishing industry; the impact of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and radiation disasters on Japanese society as a whole; urban environments and infrastructures; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic. Book: Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (University of California, 2004).
The C. B. Moore Award, given annually at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in recognition of “Excellence in Southeastern Archaeology or associated studies by a distinguished younger “scholar”, was established by the members of the Lower Mississippi Survey in 1990.
Sarah Lyon, University of Kentucky associate professor of anthropology, has been selected as the editor-designate of Human Organization, the flagship journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
