2021

Anthropology Students Present “COVID and Rural Appalachia” Project at Symposium on Regional Economic Development

Seven IUP students participated in the twenty-first annual Appalachian Teaching Project Symposium, a regional economic development conference sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission. IUP is one of 16 Appalachian colleges and universities participating in this year’s Appalachian Teaching Project.

• 01 December 2021

Anthropologist Tapped to Edit Multiple Book Series

Ben Ford has been selected to head the Society for Historical Archaeology Co-Publications Series.

• 11 November 2021

Applied Archaeology Alums Publish on Thesis Research

IUP Applied Archaeology alumni publish articles on the archaeology of an antebellum, free, African American settlement based on their thesis research.

• 15 October 2021

The Power of Dialogue

Anthropology students participate in a conflict resolution program in collaboration with Georgetown University, Colombia University, and Radford University.

• 15 October 2021

Anthropology and Better Policing

Abigail Adams's partnership with Indiana Borough Police was featured in Police Chief Magazine.

• 15 October 2021

Applied Archaeology Students Attend the American Cultural Resources Association Annual Meeting

• 17 September 2021

Anthropology Alumna Wasilko Publishes on Public Health

Rachael Wasilko ’19 and colleagues published “Perspectives on the Gamification of an Interactive Health Technology for Postoperative Rehabilitation of Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: User-Centered Design Approach” in JMIR Serious Games.

• 13 September 2021

Digital Textbook Grant to Make Anthropology Course More Affordable

The faculty of the Anthropology Department were awarded a $10,700 PA GOAL OER Development grant to assist in efforts to create a free digital textbook for introductory anthropology courses, such as ANTH 110 (Contemporary Anthropology). Anthropology is a four-field discipline that studies humanity in terms of culture, archaeology, biology, and linguistics.

• 16 August 2021

Summer of Field Schools

Anthropology is something you do, not just something you study. This summer, IUP Anthropology is offering three field schools so students can learn to get out and do anthropology.

• 16 August 2021

Garcia Co-publishes on Northern Californian Anexos

Victor Garcia and the research team at the Prevention Research Center at Berkeley published “La cultura cura: Latino culture and recovery in Northern Californian anexos” in Alcohol Treatment Quarterly (2020). 

• 28 April 2021

Garcia Publishes Public Health Research Findings with Current and Former Students

Victor Garcia and his team published two journal articles and a book chapter on findings from an NIH-funded research project examining juramento use—a Catholic religious practice—among Mexican immigrants in southeastern Pennsylvania. 

• 22 April 2021

Anthropology Student Scholars Win Awards

Anthropology students Nikki Wilcox, Marissa Willson, and Gage Huey participated in the 2021 IUP Scholars Forum, taking home three awards.

• 16 April 2021

Garcia and Anthropology Alumna Publish in Practicing Anthropology

The article makes recommendations for overcoming difficulties that Garcia and Fox encountered while conducting ethnographic research with Latinx populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• 15 April 2021

Anthropology Well-Represented at Annual IUP Research Awards

The Anthropology Department took home seven awards from the recent IUP Research Appreciation Ceremony. The awards included Research on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice;  High Impact Teaching Practice;  and Graduate Student Research.

• 08 April 2021

Anthropology Major Selected for Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience Fellowship

Marissa Willson, a senior anthropology major in the Cook Honors College, is the first IUP student selected for a PULSE Fellowship. PULSE’s mission is to cultivate a community of young servant leaders to transform Pittsburgh through a year of service to nonprofit organizations.

• 07 April 2021

Poole Interviewed on Pandemic Job Market Trends

Amanda Poole of the Department of Anthropology was interviewed for a story on Zippia.com about how the pandemic is shaping the job market for anthropology graduates.

• 26 March 2021

Anthropology Faculty and Graduate Student Submit Report on Pennsylvania Burial Legislation

The report represents the culmination of research completed through a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.

• 12 March 2021

Poole Publishes on Refugee Education

Amanda Poole co-authored “Why Eritrean refugees choose risky migration to Europe” to address the question: Why do so many refugees engage in irregular onward movement despite grave risks and the presence of programs intended to stop them from migrating?

• 01 March 2021

Poole Publishes on Refugee Education in Anthropological Quarterly

Amanda Poole of the Department of Anthropology co-authored an article with Jennifer Riggan of Arcadia University, titled “Time with/out Telos: Eritrean Refugees’ Precarious Choice of Im/possible Futures in Ethiopia and Beyond.”

• 03 February 2021

Applied Archaeology MA Student Receives 2021 Paul Goldberg Award for Geoarchaeology

Rachael Smith is the 2021 recipient of the Paul Goldberg Award, presented by the Society for American Archaeology. Her thesis, “The Use of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence to Distinguish Individuals in a Commingled Assemblage of Human Remains,” was selected by the Geoarchaeology Awards Committee on behalf of the entire Society.

• 03 February 2021