While forced family separations by government authorities continue to make headlines and stir debate in the United States, migrant Chinese factory workers in the Italian fast fashion industrial province of Prato have been making the choice to willfully send their newborn children back to China to live with relatives while they remain in Italy. Professor Elizabeth Krause and her colleague Massimo Bressan examine the reasons driving the decision parents are making to separate their families, and how capitalism and the “Made in Italy” label serve as both cause and effect of this choice.

A team of researchers including Laurie Godfrey, Emeritus Professor, and Ventura Pérez, Associate Professor, analyzed the bones of what was once the world’s largest bird and revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Elena Sesma is documenting community history using cutting-edge research methods. Through techniques like panoramic photography, community-engaged participation, oral history, as well as traditional archaeology, Sesma, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, is researching the history and changing landscape in the communities at the former Millars Plantation in the Bahamas.