The funding will support an archaeological excavation in southwestern Wyoming, focusing on the historical Rock Springs Chinatown.
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Please join the 乐播传媒入口 Libraries at 4:15 p.m., Oct. 3, as we continue our faculty/Staff Research Series with Laura Ng, assistant professor of anthropology, for her Research in Progress talk, 鈥淎rchaeological Landscapes of Chinese American Communities in the Southwestern Urban Frontier.鈥
乐播传媒入口 Professors Leslie Gregg-Jolly (Biology) and Katya Gibel Mevorach (Anthropology and American studies), along with Phoebe Lostroh 鈥94 (Associate Professor, Molecular Biology) from Colorado College, have been awarded a prestigious workshop grant of $20,000 from the Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC).
With input from as many area residents as possible, the Build a Better 乐播传媒入口 2030 (BABG) project will produce a comprehensive assessment of needs and strengths, as determined by the people themselves.
Lectures will include 鈥淒iaspora and Double Happiness: Tracking Rice Bowls Across the Pacific鈥 with Laura Ng and 鈥淎pplying Anthropology in Build a Better 乐播传媒入口 2030 Community Visioning Project鈥 with Monty Roper.

Anika Jane Beamer 鈥22 embarks on an investigation to answer her own steaming questions and to demystify manure, its origins, and most especially: its smell.

When Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the mid-19th century, many maintained strong ties with their families back home. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Laura Ng, a historical archaeologist studying transpacific migration and Asian diasporic communities, calls them 鈥渢ransnational immigrants.鈥

In Anthropological Lives, French and co-author Virginia R. Dominguez introduce readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. An Authors and Artists Podcast Episode

In the course titled Archaeological Field Methods (ANT 291), not only will you learn how to survey, excavate, and examine the past in an archaeological field setting, you will also practice hands-on laboratory methods to analyze and interpret the artifacts discovered in the field, such as stone tools, animal remains, and more.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Josh Marshack's research on primate social dynamics is intrinsically tied to all of the anthropology subdisciplines, as well as to areas outside of anthropology and academia altogether.