Recent News

Class Activity: Colorado College's advanced seminar "Anthropology 326: Religion and Ritual" spent a week in the San Luis Valley performing team fieldwork on conceptions of sacred place, and the potential impact of natural gas drilling on local spiritual practice. Visit the website created by the class to share community information.

The Student Anthropology Society was mentioned in Colorado Springs Gazette article about the Sacred Grounds Coffee House in Shove, where the Student Anthropology Society meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday night of the block. Read the article here.

Ruth Van Dyke's Field Archaeology Class got a website! See pictures and student journal entries from the 2005 Lightning Tree Canyon Survey.

A number of Anthropology Students have recently presented their research for thier Senior Papers. They include:

Natalie Watson:
The Globalization of the Wine Industry: A New World Perspective

Ted Summers:
Political Marches in Bolivia: An Ethnographic Analysis

Michael Calderon:
Emergent Cultural Traditions of South Texas: The Rise and Fall of Tejano Music

Miles Groth:
Maritime Culture in Guayas, Ecuador: Fishing, Food and Cultural Identity

Liliana Flores:
Tamborazo, Class and Culture: Denver's Emergent Folk Music Form

Sara Miller:
The People's Disease: Battle and Theory of Medical Exercises
Based on Socioeconomic Position

Blair Daverman:
A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Health and its Relation to
Urbanization in Kish, Iraq

Will Hine-Ramsberger:
Political Empowerment and Cultural Preservation: Rewriting
the Selective Tradition in Oaxaca Mexico

Arlo Furst:
Alcoholics Anonymous and the Culture of the Mutual-help Group

Brittany Wheeler:
Amazon Women: Greek Representation and Nomadic Fighters in 4th
Century B.C.E

Alysia Crocker:
The Subversive Farmer: Cultural History of Corn in the Southwest

Natalie Fast:
Remembering Early Great Houses: Chaco's Beginnings

Sarah Sincerbeaux:
The Female Motive: A Study of Proximity Relationships in
Western Lowland Gorillas to Determine the Reason for Grouping
Patterns

Bevin Condon:
Dental Health in the Late Roman Empire

Marian Keglovits:
Visual Representations of Disability Culture

Whitney Conti:
Visualizing Difference Through the Modern Tourist's lens: Memory Formation and the
"Western" Touristic Experience of "Developing" Countries

Marco Arriaga-Perez:
Graffiti in Las Vegas, Nevada

Dan Bertrand:
Coercion as a Driving Force in Social Complexity Using the Southwest as Case Study

Kelsey Gustafson:
Hype on Hyphy

Addie Schwarz:
Centering Pregnancy

Greg Breslau:
The Potential Impacts of Tourism: The Case of South Caicos

Adriane Ohanesian:
Women, Ritual, and the Reproduction of Culture in Bali,
Indonesia

Brittany Howe:
Re-examining Teenage Motherhood among Homeless Youth in Colorado Springs

Rachel Johnson:
The Culture of Torture in the Chicago Police Department

Christen Lara:
Putting Action into Words: Cultural Brokerage and Hybridity in Northern New Mexico

Leela Perez:
Huipiles of the Tz'utujil and Kaqchikel Maya: An Ethnohistorical Analysis

Morgan Maxwell:
Our Whole World Changed: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Memory, Emotion, and Identity in the Grieving Process

Raquel Saenz:
Symbolic Rebellion: Assimilation versus Cultural Maintenance in Romani Communities of Southern Spain

Kelsey Wright:
Centennial Homestead Ranchers: Cultural Value System

Jen Leichliter:
The Evolution of Human Endurance Running

Jacob Reuter:
Bwiti and the Religious Discord of an Equatorial Microcosm

Vanessa Richardson:
Literal Warfare and the Roma of Romania

Jordan Romero:
Consigned to the Past in order to Live in the Present; Tourism and Taos Pueblo

Claire Borgeson:
Modern Sansei in California: Rebuilding Severed Ties to Japanese Heritage

Laura Toebe:
Understanding Australian Aboriginal Art

Department Newsletter
The Anthropology Department has recently begun publishing an online newsletter. It includes department events, field trip photos, brief articles, and alumni updates.

Fall 2005 Newsletter

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Spring 2007 Newsletter

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Spring 2008 Newsletter

 

The Department Newsletter is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You can download Adobe Acrobat here.

Department Events
A calendar of upcoming events in the Anthropology Department.

Speaker Series
The Anthropology Department hosts guests speakers on a regular basis.

Recent speakers include:

Block 1: Christina Torres-Rouff: (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CC)
"Identity and the Body In the Ancient Americas"

Block 2: Nancy Schiesari: Nancy Schiesar is a Professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas-Austin and has produced a film dealing with Iraq.

Block 3: Rich Wilshusen and Field Arch. Students: (Visiting Professor)
Professor Wilshusen and students spent 5 weeks in the field conducting research in field archaeology of the Southwest; culminating in four independent research topics that have added knowledge to the field of Southwest archaeology.

Block 4: Krista Fish: (visiting professor)
"The Challenges of Primate Conservation: Biocultural Factors"

Block 6: Wade Davis: (National Geographic Explorer)
"Light at the Edge of the World" Wade Davis is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has traveled and lived among the people of traditional cultures in many countries."Light at the Edge of the World" documented his journeys among vanishing cultures of the world.

Block 7: Sascha Scott: (vistiting professor)
"Unwrapping Ernest L. Blumenschein's The Gift." Through a discussion of this painting, this talk explores the benefits and limitations of the application of post-colonial and anthropological perspectives to Anglo art production in the American Southwest.Sascha was an Anthro major at CC who graduated in 1997. She has recently completed her Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University on?gPaintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation in the American Southwest.h?

Block 7: Dr. Jacqueline T. Eng: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mt. Holyoke Riley Scholar Candidate for Anthropology

"Bioarchaeology of Imperialism: Frontier Interaction in Chinafs Northern Zone"

Soon after agrarian-based states developed around Chinafs fertile Central Plain, nomadic pastoral societies emerged in the Mongolian steppe. Tensions early on were evident as Chinese states along the north erected defensive walls that eventually would form the Great Wall.

In this study, the nature and health consequences of the interactions between agriculturalists and pastoralists were documented using multiple lines of bioarchaeological evidence from skeletal and dental remains to test longstanding assumptions about dietary dependency and violent conflict between ancient China and nomadic societies of the northern frontier.