Jennifer Byrnes and graduate students Taylor Flaherty, Liam Johnson, Katharine Woollen, Dayanira Lopez, Katherine Gaddis, SaMoura Horsley (all Anthropology), published an article titled, "Speaking of Sex: Critical Reflections for Forensic Anthropologists," in Humans. This essay outlines language and terminology…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article in SAPIENS: Anthropology Magazine about Mexico's animal protection movement and how it has become co-opted by political actors that push "tough-on-crime" narratives that de-politicize the animal protection movement and promote simplistic views of how to solve the problem of animal abuse.…

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) presented a paper, "Lessons in Safe Logic: Reassessing Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination," for the Consortium of History of Science, Technology and Medicine's History of Anthropology Working Group on Sept. 6. The paper is part of a forthcoming journal article that documents the relationship…

Taylor Flaherty (Anthropology) worked on a team of biological anthropologists who recently published their article, “Shifting the Forensic Anthropological Paradigm to Incorporate the Transgender and Gender Diverse Community,” in Humans. 

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) presented the results of her latest fieldwork at the 12th congreso internacional de Mayistas, Mexico City, titled, "Arqueologia Domestica y la Practicas de la Vida Cotidiana en un Barrio de Palenque."

Jennifer Byrnes and Taylor Flaherty (both Anthropology) along with Antonella Maddalena, published an article titled, "Misgendering a transgender woman using FORDISC 3.1: A case study perspective," in Forensic Science International: Synergy. This case study provides insight into the limitations of forensic methods in…

Nikki E. Bennett,  Suzanna Soto, Jhobany Nicolas-Serrano, and Peter B. Gray (all Anthropology) published their study titled, "Dog guardians and genetic testing: Survey textbox responses & human-animal bond influences," in CABI International: Human-Animal Interactions. This project is a part of Bennett's Ph.D. research in which…

Katherine Gaddis (Anthropology) was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project titled, "An Examination of Aging and the Elderly in Bioarchaeological Contexts."

Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), vice provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate College, presented at an international workshop on hunter-gatherer education at the University of Tromso in Norway. She was one of only two U.S. participants and joined colleagues from around the world, including Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania,…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) has published a book, Households on the Mimbres Horizon, with the University of Arizona Press. The book is based on her excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Pithouse period (AD 550-1000) archaeological site located in southern New Mexico.

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an opinion piece in the LA Times Español on violence, non-human animals, and the "war on drugs" in Mexico. 

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) was recently interviewed for the KNPR Desert Companion story, "Spirit Moves," about a potential U.S. National monument designation for Avi Kwa Ame (or "Spirit Mountain"), which would protect nearly a half million acres of Native land, south of Las Vegas.