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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 Undergrads advocate for international family planning on Capitol Hill
APRIL 2014 ASU bioarchaeologist to be honored by Durham University
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
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upcoming events (View All)
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The Social Dynamics of Coalescence: Community Life Among the Ancestral Wendat of Southern Ontario 1400-1550 C.E. Monday, April 28, 8:15 a.m. |
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Transactional Definitions, Detection and Reporting of Suicide: Institutional and Cultural Shaping of Data in Nepal Monday, April 28, 9 a.m. |
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A Political Ecology of Water Struggles in the Biobio and Aysen Regions of Chile Monday, April 28, 10 a.m. |
