Spotlight Spring 2023

Undergraduate Student Spring 2023

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Em Fox (BA Anthropology in Progress)

Em’s research investigates identity and inequality in a historic cemetery in Nederland, Colorado. In addition to using data they collected about the grave markers at the Nederland Cemetery, Em is also incorporating information gathered from historic records into their research. Their work will contribute to the existing body of research on cemeteries as well as provide valuable genealogical information to the Nederland community.

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Graduate Student Spring 2023

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Rob Weiner (Ph.D. Archaeology in Progress)

My dissertation research involved documentation of monumental roads associated with Chaco Canyon (ca. AD 800-1200) in partnership with the Navajo Nation. This fieldwork revealed the consistent patterning of small architectural features along roads that block, channel, and otherwise prescribe movement, as well as offerings of broken ceramics. I also found that the roads’ termini were a mix of watery places, prominent landforms, shrines, and astronomical bodies. Ultimately, my dissertation argues that road-related practices of sensorially engaging processions and ritual races—and the powerful entities of water, land, and sky that roads engage—were central elements driving the history of Chaco.

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Alumni Spotlight Spring 2023

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Allison Formanack (Ph.D. Anthropology 2018)

Professor Allison Formanack (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi) has a new article in print, "Little White Lies: Hope and Untruth in (White) Mobile-Homeownership." Her article argues that while home ownership in the US has historically favored white Americans, its biases also generate a class of white homeowners who struggle to achieve respectability because their homes are mobile.

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