Alumnus Lee Gettler to Join Notre Dame Faculty
March 19, 2012 • 
Biological anthropologist Lee Gettler ’05 made national news last year with his research on the linkage between fatherhood and testosterone, reporting that the hormone decreases in men once they have children and drops even more in dads who are very active in caring for their kids.
Anthropology Alumni Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships
March 19, 2012 • 
The extensive research opportunities available to undergraduates in Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology played a key role in helping two recent graduates—Collin McCabe ’10 and Claire Brown ’11—win fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Archaeologist Meredith Chesson ‘Follows the Pots’
March 19, 2012 • 
Notre Dame Associate Professor Meredith S. Chesson investigates the extensive looting—mostly by economically struggling local residents—that for decades has affected the area in and around the Jordanian cemetery at Fifa. Her work questions traditional ways of thinking about both archaeologists and looters.
Alumni Reflections: Pursuing Graduate Work Overseas
March 19, 2012 • 
Four years ago, I was a nervous freshman in flip-flops and a sundress trying desperately to find a seat in Professor [James] McKenna’s crowded Introduction to Anthropology class at Notre Dame. Still breathless from my circuitous journey from Lyons to Haggar Hall, I was unaware that such a hapless beginning had irrevocably set my feet upon the winding path toward a future in anthropology.
Susan Blum Explores Learning In and Out of School
March 19, 2012 • 
A two-day working conference titled Learning In and Out of School: Education Across the Globe will bring a dozen researchers to the Notre Dame campus May 22–23 to share and discuss a broad range of perspectives on the nature of learning.
“We’re taking a critical look at conventional schooling and bringing insights from other domains to understand human learning and to improve schooling—which is one of my goals as a teacher and researcher,” says organizer Susan Blum, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology.
Anthropology Interns Explore Career Possibilities
March 19, 2012 • 
Anthropology majors at the University of Notre Dame took their studies from the theoretical to the practical last summer, completing internships that had them doing archaeological fieldwork in Mongolia, cataloging artifacts in Chicago’s Field Museum, and collecting the oral histories of Irish immigrants on Beaver Island, Mich.
Anthropology Major Catalogs Native American Artifacts
March 19, 2012 • 
After years of neglect and collecting dust, Native American artifacts at the Morristown National Historical Park have finally been rediscovered because of the work of Carleigh Moore, a senior anthropology major at the University of Notre Dame.
Anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka Wins Global Citizenship Award
February 03, 2012 • 
Vania Smith-Oka, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the Center for Public Anthropology’s Ruth Benedict Global Citizenship Award—an honor granted to just one percent of faculty teaching introductory anthropology courses across the United States.
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Congratulations to Morgan Iddings, who was one of four students to win the poster competition by the Society for Visual Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association meetings in November! Morgan's poster detailed her work on "Changes in Household Consumption Practices in Post-Communist Bulgaria."
December 01, 2011 • Arts and Letters
University of Notre Dame students were awarded 13 Fulbright grants for the 2011-12 academic year, placing the University among the top universities in the nation. Eleven of the 13 are from the College of Arts and Letters, including anthropology major Jaime Cordes.
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October 12, 2011 • Mark Shuman
On the final day of his latest six-week excavation season in historic Butrint, Albania, University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor David Hernández says “the face of a goddess appeared.”
The four assistants who had a hand in the discovery?
Suzanna Pratt, Patrick Conry, Matt Wieck, and Wesley Wood—all undergraduates in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters.
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Businessweek, August 16, 2011
Bloomberg, August 16, 2011
(Rahul Oka, Assistant Professor of anthropology)
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Susan Guibert • Date: August 05, 2011
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” opening nationwide Friday, is expected to be a summer blockbuster. So what’s the fascination with apes taking over? Why not “Planet of the Dogs” or “Planet of the Seagulls?”
“The lure of the ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies lies in our fascination with the possibility that we are not the only sentient beings on earth,” says University of Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes, who specializes in human evolution and primatology.
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Time Magazine, July 27, 2011
(James McKenna, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology)
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Michael O. Garvey • Date: July 27, 2011
Deb Rotman, director of undergraduate studies for Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology, has been appointed director of the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE).
Rotman joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2006. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the anthropology department, she has taught courses on the experience of 19th century Irish immigrants in America, working with her students on archival research, oral history and archeological excavations in South Bend and Beaver Island, Mich., and during summer study visits to Ireland.
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Susan Guibert • Date: July 25, 2011
By flip-flopping its position on which groups can provide humanitarian aid to the thousands of starving Somalians, and forbidding supplies from foreign agencies not currently working in its strongholds, the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab is “playing an interesting game,” says University of Notre Dame economic anthropologist Rahul Oka, who currently is in Kenya at the Kakuma Refugee Camp conducting fieldwork on trade and the distribution of relief supplies.
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July 14, 2011 • Renée LaReau
Stephanie Sluka Brauer ’97, who majored in anthropology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, now lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa and helps house families in 18 countries as the resource development manager for Habitat for Humanity International’s Africa and Middle East regional office.
“Fundraising can be a powerful way to build peace,” says Brauer. “For many donors, this is a way to connect with someone else’s reality halfway around the globe.”
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