Spotlight Winter 2022

Undergraduate Student Winter 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:32:09 +0000

Undergraduate Student Winter 2022 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/29/2022 - 09:32

Ella Stritzel (BA Anthropology in Progress)

Ella’s research highlights a set of three Huichol gourd bowls at the CU Museum of Natural History and is investigating the connection between materiality and meaning making. They have been working with Dr. Gutierrez to identify the lacquer and decorative elements, and understand how small, individual components impact an object’s use, meaning, and role, both within their origin community and current museum setting.

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Graduate Student Winter 2022

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:34:05 +0000

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Dawa Lokyitsang (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology in Progress)

Dawa Lokyitsang is a Tibetan-American Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her dissertation is about the establishment of sovereignty in exile by the Tibetan refugee collective following China’s invasion of Tibet in 1959. She looks specifically at the development of Tibetan educational institutions and the making of kinship in India as avenues for securing Tibetan continuity and futurity as the invasion transitioned into a full-scale settler colonial occupation. As such, her scholarship sits at the intersection of Asian imperial-colonialisms, anti-colonial nationalisms, and Indigenous sovereign-futurisms.

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Shadrack Kamenya

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Shadrack Kamenya

(Ph.D. Anthropology 1997)

Shadrack has been working with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) for the past 25 years in research, conservation, and education. From August 1997 to 2005 was working in managing chimpanzee research at the Gombe Stream Research Centre (GSRC) in Gombe National Park. The period between 2005 and 2018, was contributing more in research and conservation initiatives that took the Institute into the Masito Ugalla Ecosystem in Kigoma and Katavi Regions in Western Tanzania with more chimpanzees than Gombe. The past 5 years have been focusing on conservation awareness to leaders, communities, and young generation on biodiversity conservation and climate related issues.

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