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Faculty Spotlight
Christopher Stojanowski + Kelly Knudson
Associate Professors
The work of these ASU bioarchaeologists is helping piece together the origins, histories and identities of past peoples. Recently, they pooled their efforts to study how climate instability affected the mobility of ancient peoples of the Sahara.
Student Spotlight
Megan Best
Anthropology, Biological SciencesThe double major merged her love of animals with her interest in anthropology to create a specialized foundation in primate behavior. The recipient of a research award that paired her with noted primatologist Joan Silk, Best will be continuing her research in the field when she travels to Kenya this July.
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featured project
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International
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Biocultural Dimensions of Global Health
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In our most recent iteration of this project, we are beginning to investigate how we might understand how large bodies become stigmatized through looking at this process in reverse and at high speed – ethnographically examining people’s shifting sense of body and self in the period of extremely rapid weight-loss that occurs post bariatric surgery.
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in the news (View All)
APRIL 2014 Reed named President's Professor
APRIL 2014 Bioarchaeologists link climate instability to human mobility in ancient Sahara
APRIL 2014 Archaeologist leads undergrads to research dynamics of neighborhood formation
APRIL 2014 New PBS series features scientists from ASU's Institute of Human Origins
APRIL 2014 Origins Project debates to tackle violence, humanity and the future
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upcoming events (View All)
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Recent Human Evolution as Revealed by Neandertals Friday, April 18, 3:30 p.m. |
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Aspiring Citizens: Undocumented Youths' Pursuit of Community and Rights in Arizona Monday, April 21, 9:30 a.m. |
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Where Did You Come From? Where Will You Go? Human Evolutionary Biology Education and American Students' Academic Interests and Achievements, Professional Goals and Socioscientific Decision-Making Monday, April 21, 10:30 a.m. |
