Spotlight 2022

Undergraduate Spotlight Fall 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:15:24 +0000

Undergraduate Spotlight Fall 2022 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:15

Connor Ball (BA Anthropology in Progress)

Connor’s research attempts to improve interpretations of archaeological lithic assemblages by establishing different potential uses of projectile points in relation to faunal, ceramic, geographic data, and oral traditions. He traveled to Santa Fe via a museum grant to examine projectile points from two archaeological sites in northern New Mexico to apply this research to this region of the Southwest. His research will help to understand subsistence and tool use in the Southwest and beyond.

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Graduate Student Spotlight Fall 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:00:08 +0000

Graduate Student Spotlight Fall 2022 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/22/2022 - 10:00

Katie McGuire (Ph.D. Biological Anthropology in Progress)

Ph.D student Katie McGuire's dissertation research explores individual variation in ring-tailed lemur social behavior with a particular emphasis in how this variation contributes to the efficacy of animal social groups. For example, an important benefit of group-living is having more individuals to detect potential threats in the environment. The photo from her fieldwork on St. Catherines Island (Georgia, USA) depicts the dominant female of East Road group (Pearl Heart) standing on her hind legs to find the source of some nearby rustling leaves while her group grooms and rests on the ground; the culprit ended up being a harmless, ambling armadillo, but the lemurs and Katie did have interactions with alligators, snakes, hawks, raccoons, and wild pigs during her six months of data collection last year.

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Marnie Thomson

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:29:03 +0000

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Marnie Thomson (Ph.D. Anthropology 2017)

Marnie Thomson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College, directed an ethnographic methods field school in Tanzania this summer. In Durango, the students learned some Swahili and designed individual ethnographic research projects related to the program themes - international aid, COVID 19, and gender. In Tanzania, students lived in a Chagga family home in Boma Ng'ombe. FLC students worked with student translators from Tenegeru Institute of Community Development, and conducted participant observation at open air markets, in a Maasai village, in local neighborhoods and homes, at primary school, at a medical clinic, at Femme International (an NGO), and their translators' university.

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