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The Society for the Social Studies of Science has awarded Lisa Messeri’s second book, which was published last spring, the annual Fleck Prize 

Her paper assesses the chronological variation in kiln structures and capacities across different regions of Southern China

The paper used experimental archaeology to examine how burial and burning removed ochre residues from ostrich eggshell artifacts

Her research will study how intensive mobile pastoralism spread across the northeastern part of the Mongolian Plateau

Their paper, with faculty co-author Micheal Dove, considers the social factors that keep people from evacuating during natural disasters 

For their final project, the class displayed a pop-up exhibit at the Peabody to showcase Martian artifacts they created as a world-building exercise 

This research suggests that differences in mobility and landscape use, not population turnover, are responsible for different technologies 

The paper, on the mental health of displaced children, summarizes current knowledge 

She received the ACLS Fellowship for her project “Bordering Blackness: Migration and Dispossession in the Afro-Mediterranean.” 

Her project titled “Anthropology of Transnational Dwelling in the Indian Ocean Network,” investigates the influence of migration on architecture