Graduate student Audrey Tjahjadi was awarded a Prize Teaching Fellowship for teaching ANTH 204, Molecular Biology (fall 2023). This fellowship recognizes graduate students for their outstanding performance and promise as teachers. Audrey is the first anthropology student to receive this award.
Department of Anthropology chair Doug Rogers is among seven Yale faculty members selected as 2024 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Two studies co-authored by Catherine Panter-Brick were featured in Yale News this week. The studies looked at measures of well-being in Syrian refugees. Read more below:
Volunteering enhances life satisfaction among Syrian refugee women | YaleNews
Parental discord over dads’ role linked to child... Read more
Live Science featured Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos research on residue analysis of 1,000 pottery in Mesoamerica. The study detected traces of nicotine in three ceramic vases, suggesting ritual use of tobacco. Read more at Live Science.
Four PhD students–Alyssa Enny, Spencer Irvine, Audrey Tjahjadi, and Hannah Keller–collaborated with Yale Pathways to introduce local high school students to anthropology. Students compared primate morphology, recovered bone casts from mock excavations, broke open bones with hammerstones... Read more
Archaeology Magazine featured Professor Burger’s genetic study of burials at Machu Picchu as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2023. The study revealed that Machu Picchu’s caretakers came from almost every part of the Inca Empire, including regions in the Amazon. Read more in Archaeology... Read more
PhD Student Spencer Kaplan was awarded Honorable Mention in the David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize by the AAA Committee for the Anthropology of Computing (CASTAC). Spencer received the Honorable Mention for his paper titled “Facing Blockchain’s Double Bind: Trustless Technologies and ‘IRL... Read more
