Joseph B. Curran (Anthropology) has co-authored an article, "War Clubs in Southern California: an Interdisciplinary Study of Blunt Force Weapons and Their Impact," with with David E. Raymond, an associate professor in the California State University, Los Angeles department of mechanical engineering. The article has been published in the Journal of…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) and Kathryn Baustian, '10 MA and '15 PhD Anthropology, published "Situational Power in Cooperative Communities: Indicators from Bioarchaeology in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico" in American Anthropologist.  

Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented his work on multispecies ethnography as part of a panel that brought together Mexican artists and academics. The panel, "Animal Politics: Sketches of a Non-Human Theater," included a short documentary as well as three presentations that discussed the relationship between non-human animals,…

Alyssa Crittenden and Spencer Holmes (both Anthropology,) in collaboration with UNITE Passion Project,  contributed a film sharing their work with the Olanakwe Community Fund, a community-based aid organization promoting educational and economic sovereignty of the Hadzabe community of Tanzania. The short film, which discusses…

Alona D. Angosta (Nursing), Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), Chad Cross (Public Health), Komal Sood (Medicine) and Trevor Pollom (Anthropology) recently published an article, Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge, Risk Factors, and Resilience Level among U.S. Veterans with and without Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, in The …

Kayleigh Meighan (Anthropology) won runner-up for the national “Raising Our Voices” three-minute thesis competition of the American Anthropological Association where she presented her research on co-sleeping mothers and infants in the U.S. She is a doctoral student. Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) is her advisor.

Stephanie Schnorr (Anthropology) published an invited piece, "Insights into Health and Disease from Ancient Biomolecules," in the recent themed issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. Her contribution was highlighted in the editorial to the special issue as providing a "groundbreaking perspective" that…

Alan Simmons (Anthropology) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar award to continue research on the first inhabitants of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.  His research will focus on the site of Ais Giorkis that he has excavated for the past several years. He also will work with the Department of Antiquities on issues related to the…

Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) is the 2020 winner of the American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship for his article “Uncertain Futures: The Unfinished Houses of Undocumented Migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico” (2017), in American Anthropologist. In this article, Sandoval-…

Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) has co-authored a chapter that appears in a new edited volume, The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence: A Theoretical Framework for Industrial Era Inequality, edited by Lori A. Tremblay and Sarah Reedy. The chapter, "The Erie County Poorhouse (1828–1926) as a Heterotopia: A…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article on the Mazatec Indigenous use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in relation to the recent use of psychedelic substances for clinical use. The article, "Re-territorializing María Sabina: Huautla, Mushrooms, and Politics," is part of the Society of Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Series on the…

Peter Gray and Alex Straftis (both Anthropology), along with UNLV alum Timothy McHale, '17 PhD Anthropology, and other colleagues, published a review paper on human reproductive behavior, life history, and testosterone as part of a 30-year anniversary special issue in the journal Hormones and Behavior devoted to the "Challenge Hypothesis."…