Anthropology News
SIUE Anthropology Honors Day
Posted July 09, 2021
Honors Day Convocation, an annual celebration hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences to honor the great achievements of our amazing students, was held virtually for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While while we could not gather in-person, we nevertheless want to celebrate the hard work of SIUE Anthropology students.
Below is the list of students and their awards:
- Cristina Sanchez Amasifuen, Dr. Laura McCullough Scholarship (CAS Award)
- Eileen Kanost, Katherine Dunham Award...
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SIUE’s Walsh Recognized as Rotary Student Leader of the Month
Posted March 23, 2021
The Edwardsville Rotary Club named Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences senior Megan Walsh,
The anthropology major was nominated by Susan Kooiman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and faculty advisor for the SIUE Anthropology Club, for her outstanding leadership style and revitalization of the club despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. of Toledo, Ill., the February SIUE Rotary Student Leader of the Month.
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SIUE Alumna Jackson Earns Competitive National Award from Anthropology Honor Society
Posted January 28, 2021
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Sacha Jackson of, Edwardsville, who earned a bachelor’s in anthropology, French and psychology in May 2020, achieved third place in the Lambda Alpha Senior Scholarship Award competition of the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society – a first for a student in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology.
After accepting the nomination by anthropology faculty and pursuing a daunting application process,...
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SIUE Anthropology Honors Day
Posted April 19, 2020
April 19 was scheduled for Honors Day Convocation, an annual celebration hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences to honor the great achievements of our amazing students. While the ceremony unfortunately had to be cancelled this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, we nevertheless want to celebrate the hard work of SIUE Anthropology students.
Below is the list of students and their awards. Perhaps the most important of these awards is the Fred Voget Outstanding Senior Project. Please note tha...
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Dr. Corey Ragsdale is an Expert in Anthropology!
Posted July 31, 2019
Earlier this month it was announced that Dr. Corey Ragsdale was selected for a three-year term as an expert in Anthropology for the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) committee on human migration. The competition for selection was intense, and being chosen was a great honor. According to the CfAS website, “The Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) promotes and funds innovative, collaborative synthetic research that rapidly advances our understanding of the past in ways t...
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