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News & Events
Department Newsletter
If you have anything you would like included in our next newsletter, please email us at anthro@mail.sdsu.edu.
We look forward to hearing from you!
September 2012 (.pdf)
April 2011 newsletter (.pdf)
April 2012 newsletter (.pdf)
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News
Grant Awarded
Dr. Riley was recently awarded a National Geographic Society Waitt grant to fund her research, "The human-macaque interface along the Silver River, Florida: Interactions between boaters and free-ranging rhesus monkeys". Her graduate student, Tiffany Wade, will be conducting her thesis research as part of this project.
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Events
September 20, 2012
Friends of Anthropology Meeting, 3:30 pm, in the Arts and Letters building, room 462. Hope you can make it.
October 11, 2012
Dedication of the M. Steven Shackley Conference Room, in the Arts and Letters Building, Room 462. Reception immediately fol-lowing. Stay tuned for more details!
October 27, 2012
Joint gathering for the Friends of Anthropology and the San Diego Archaeological Center. Join us for a late afternoon event with food and beer! Watch your emails for more information!
The Department of Anthropology's annual speaker series:
March 2, 2012
3:30 pm
AL 105
"Finding Family: Social Relationships, Kin Investment and Health in Jamaica"
by Dr. Robin Nelson, Department of Anthropology, UC-Riverside
Dr. Nelson is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary theory in studies of human sociality and health outcomes. With a focus on critical periods of human growth and development, she examines culturally salient forms of social and financial capital and the health of peoples in the Caribbean. Dr. Nelson was recently elected to the Executive Committee of the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association.
View the 3/2 event flyer (.pdf)
May 4, 2012
3:30 pm
AL 105
Katherine C. MacKinnon, Saint Louis University
Dr. MacKinnon's current research focuses on the social behavior and ecology of wild capuchin monkeys (genus Cebus) in Central and South America, nonhuman primate and hominin evolutionary strategies through time, and ethics in field primatology.
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