February 6, 2026

Recent Good News: 

Out graduate students have had great success in receiving awards, being interviewed, and sharing good things prior to the semester, more good news to come.


Anne Marie Wort was awarded a University Fieldwork Grant for her dissertation project Embodied Climate: A Bioarchaeological and Paleoclimatic Investigation of Dietary Resilience and Physiological Stress in Medieval Scandinavia (1000–1350 CE)." 

Mandy Fuchs was awarded an American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Pollitzer Travel Award Competition, for the essay “Why Biological Anthropology Matters More Than Ever.”

MJ Ingmanson received a grant from Primate Conservation, Inc. for her upcoming fieldwork, "Infant and Juvenile Behavioral and Social Development in Propithecus edwardsi".  Listen to an Interview with MJ:

Marybelle Issa sponsoring a series of Ethnographies of Art & Artistic Practice reading groups meetings beginning on Feb. 12th from 12pm-1:30pm Location: TBA.  Access our reading program here and email Marybelle for more information: @email.  

Dates for the Reading Groups are: February 12, February 26, March 12, March 26, April 9, April 23, May 7, May 21, May 28. 


*Stay tuned for more good news