Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) recently published a co-edited volume, "The Urban Questions: Interdisciplinary & Multiscalar Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City," through the University of Utah Press, Available Dec. 19, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-64769-228-5. 

Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) was an invited speaker at the international symposium “Faire connaissance(s): Hip hop dances as fields of research and invention,” held December 4–6 at La Villette in Paris and organized by the Centre national de la danse (CN D), a national institution of the French Ministry of Culture. Ruma’s presentation, “From…

Derek Boyd (Anthropology) published an open-access article in Early View in the International Journal of Paleopathology titled, "An Intersectional and Bayesian Investigation of Pleural Disease in Industrializing England (1700-1857CE)," (2026). In this article, Boyd combines intersectionality theory with Bayesian linear modeling to map the burden…

Gabriela Oré Menéndez (Anthropology) published an article in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory titled "Agricultural Infrastructure Detection Through Multispectral Satellite Remote Sensing and PeruSAT-1 Images in Huarochirí, Peru" (2025). In this article, Oré Menéndez develops a systematic methodological approach called "sequential…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published a chapter in Spanish titled, "Cuidados," (Care) in the edited volume Glosario Etnográfico de las Ruralidades Mexicanas (Ethnographic Glossary of Mexican Ruralities), edited by Paola Velasco Santos and Hernán Salas Quintanal (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). In this chapter, Sandoval-…

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) attended the American Society for Ethnohistory meeting in San Antonio, Texas, where he organized the panel titled, "Historicizing Politically Engaged Scholarship in Native North America." The panel explored the conceptual tools needed to examine prior instances in which anthropologists and ethnohistorians entered the…

Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) co-authored These Are the Breaks! (Scholars of Style, 2025), a practitioner-led book on Hip Hop culture and cultural preservation, documenting the life and impact of world-renowned DJ and breaking champion Lino “Lean Rock” Delgado.

Professor Karen Harry and Liam Frink’s (both Anthropology) collaborative Alaskan pottery study was recently highlighted on the Decoder Ring podcast (segment from 22:30–35:30). The episode grew out of publicity from The New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean’s book Dinner with King Tut, which profiled their work alongside that of anthropology…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented his work on animal protection activism and politics in Mexico at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS, Center for Research and Higher Education in Sofial Anthropology) Northeast (Monterrey, Mexico) on August 22.

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) received the Byron Cummings Award from the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. The award is given "for outstanding research and contributions to knowledge in anthropology, history, or a related field of study" pertaining to the Southwestern U.S. 

Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) co-authored "Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük," published in Science. This study analyzed 130 ancient genomes from the Neolithic archaeology site of Çatalhöyük, located in modern-day Turkey. The study showed how kinship patterns changed over time, but individuals from the same…

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) published "Syllabus Attack!: Dwelling on the History of Anthropology" in the History of Anthropology Review. This essay considers recent and ongoing efforts to teach the history of anthropology to undergraduates against the backdrop of the latest incarnation of disciplinary and institutional crisis in anthropology.…