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Associate Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa and Hamilton seniors Paige Cross and Anna Zahm presented papers at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference.

Hamilton senior Anna Zahm, an anthropology/archaeology major, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Thailand.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology Chris Vasantkumar is the author of an essay titled "Unmade in China: Reassembling the Ethnic on the Gansu-Tibetan Frontier" that has just been published by Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology Chris Vasantkumar was an invited participant in a two-day workshop on "Himalayan Connections: Disciplines, Geographies, Trajectories" convened under the auspices of the Yale University Himalaya Initiative in New Haven on March 9-10.

Although they are sometimes hard to see through the smog and light pollution, the stars illuminate the night sky as they have for millions of years. While many of us enjoy driving out on country roads to admire the star-studded landscape of the night, few can look into the heavens and see thousands of years of human history like Anthony Aveni can.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung was a member of an invited panel and presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held Nov. 21-25 in San Francisco.

“In the Shadows and at the Margins: Working in the Korean Clubs and Bars of Osaka’s Minami Area” by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was published as a chapter in Wind Over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context.

Chris Vasantkumar, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, is the author of an essay that appears in a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on "Regimes of Mobility."  The essay is titled "Tibetan Peregri-nations: Mobility, Incommensurable Nationalisms and (Un)belonging Athwart the Himalayas."

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale and his work with students and other faculty in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, were featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education in its Sept 17 issue. “Archaeologists Uncover Markers of an ‘Extinct’ Ancient Tribe on Contested Land” provided an overview of the work that Goodale has been pursuing in the last decade excavating the land of the Sinixt people to document the archaeology of First Nations in the valley.

Learning English is one of the most daunting tasks for newly arriving immigrants in the United States, and it can be a task that is accompanied by little support. Anna Zahm’13, Grace Parker Zielinski ’14 and Melissa Segura ’14, have spent their summers working to combat this problem by providing much-needed assistance to English language adult students at the Utica access site for the Madison-Oneida Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).