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Olumide Ojediran Receives Taylor Student Poster Award Honorable Mention

Renee Kuban — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:23:08 +0000

Olumide Ojediran Receives Taylor Student Poster Award Honorable Mention Renee Kuban Mon, 04/28/2025 - 11:23

Olumide Ojediran (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) received an honorable mention at the 2025 RE Taylor Student Poster Award competition at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting yesterday, for his work "Understanding Human-Equid Relationships in the Old Oyo Empire, West Africa." This is a national competition here for our largest disciplinary conference in archaeology - and comes with both a cash prize and a membership in the Society for Archaeological Sciences.

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Donna Goldstein Receives Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award

Renee Kuban — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:08:25 +0000

Donna Goldstein Receives Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award Renee Kuban Mon, 04/28/2025 - 11:08

Professor Donna Goldstein has been chosen as a winner of the Graduate School’s 2024-2025 Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award.

These faculty were nominated by students, department or program administrators, faculty, or staff for their outstanding contributions either to mentoring individual graduate students, improving the overall climate of graduate education within their program, or improving the graduate program itself.

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Jessica Misiorek Successfully Defended Her MA paper

Renee Kuban — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:52:03 +0000

Jessica Misiorek Successfully Defended Her MA paper Renee Kuban Mon, 04/28/2025 - 10:52

Jessica Misiorek (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended her MA paper "Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity." Her committee members were Professors Kate Goldfarb (chair), Carla Jones, and Carole McGranahan.

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Yuxiang Lin Successfully Defended His MA Thesis

Renee Kuban — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:49:35 +0000

Yuxiang Lin Successfully Defended His MA Thesis Renee Kuban Fri, 04/25/2025 - 09:49

Yuxiang Lin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) successfully defended his MA paper "Report as Infrastructure: The Discursive Construction of Nepal's Hydropower." His committee members were Professors Jerry Jacka and Carole McGranahan, (co-chairs), and Alison Cool.

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Scott Ortman's Co-Authored PNAS Article Featured in A&S Magazine

Renee Kuban — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:37:49 +0000

Scott Ortman's Co-Authored PNAS Article Featured in A&S Magazine Renee Kuban Wed, 04/23/2025 - 13:37

Professor Scott Ortman's co-authored PNAS article, "Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term," featured in A&S Magazine.

�� archaeologist Scott Ortman and colleagues around the world explore relationships between housing size and inequality in PNAS Special Feature

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species representing one of the earliest branches of humanity’s family tree.

Archaeological evidence that is unambiguously housing dates to more than 20,000 years ago—a time when large swaths of North America, Europe and Asia were covered in ice and humans had only recently begun living in settlements.

Between that time and the dawn of industrialization, the archaeological record is rich not only with evidence of settled life represented by housing, but also with evidence of inequality.

Read the entire article A&S Magazine

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David Hansen Successfully Defended His Prospectus

Renee Kuban — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:30:06 +0000

David Hansen Successfully Defended His Prospectus Renee Kuban Tue, 04/22/2025 - 10:30

David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has successfully defended his prospectus, "Early Life, Sex, and Migration: Mortality Risks from Famin and Plague in Midieval Mining Town of Kutna Hora, Czechi" and advances to candidacy. His committee members were Professors Sharon DeWitte (Advisor), Lauren Hosek, Corey Ragsdale (SIU Edwardsville), William Taylor, and Fernando Villanea.

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David Hansen Passes His PhD Qualifying Exam

Renee Kuban — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:56:42 +0000

David Hansen Passes His PhD Qualifying Exam Renee Kuban Fri, 04/18/2025 - 09:56

David Hansen (Biological Anthropology, PhD in progress) has successfully passed his qualifying exam. His committee consisted of Professors Sharon Dewitte, Lauren Hosek and Fernando Villanea.

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Annabelle Lewis Successfully Defended Her Prospectus

Renee Kuban — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:36:20 +0000

Annabelle Lewis Successfully Defended Her Prospectus Renee Kuban Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:36

Annabelle Lewis (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) has successfully defended her prospectus, "Landscapes of Conspicuous Mortuary Consumption in 19th-Century Upstate New York"" and advances to candidacy. Her committee members were Eric Jones (Advisor), Sharon DeWitte, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Lauren Hosek, and Colin Quinn.

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Gabi Perry Successfully Defends Her MA Thesis

Renee Kuban — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:16:11 +0000

Gabi Perry Successfully Defends Her MA Thesis Renee Kuban Tue, 04/08/2025 - 09:16

Gabi Perry (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) completed a successful defense of her Master’s Thesis, "Archaeological Predictive Model for Ocean Bay Sites on Kodiak Island, Alaska."

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Kelsey Armeni Receives EAH Scholar Award

Renee Kuban — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:46:57 +0000

Kelsey Armeni Receives EAH Scholar Award Renee Kuban Mon, 04/07/2025 - 10:46

Kelsey Armeni (Cultural Anthropology, PhD in Progress) has been selected as a 2025-2027 Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar! This two-year program recognizes graduate students in the arts, humanities, and related fields who use creative and humanistic approaches in their scholarship.

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Olumide Ojediran Receives Taylor Student Poster Award Honorable Mention

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Donna Goldstein Receives Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award

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Jessica Misiorek Successfully Defended Her MA paper

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Yuxiang Lin Successfully Defended His MA Thesis

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Scott Ortman's Co-Authored PNAS Article Featured in A&S Magazine

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David Hansen Successfully Defended His Prospectus

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David Hansen Passes His PhD Qualifying Exam

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Annabelle Lewis Successfully Defended Her Prospectus

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Gabi Perry Successfully Defends Her MA Thesis

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Kelsey Armeni Receives EAH Scholar Award

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Donna Goldstein Receives Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award