Category: Anthropology

STELLAR student profile: Danielle MacDonald

STELLAR student profile: Danielle MacDonald

Senior cultural anthropology major Danielle MacDonald, of Edwardsville, is one of many students chosen as a STELLAR Student by the College of Arts and Sciences.
STELLAR Student Danielle MacDonald
STELLAR Students are nominated by faculty members in their respective departments. The program recognizes, honors and develops “some of the star student achievers” of the College of Arts […]

Aminata Cairo SIUE department of antropology

Aminata Cairo Awarded University Humanitarian Award

Last week Aminata Cairo (Department of Anthropology), was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. University Humanitarian Award. The award is given to recognize individuals who demonstrate the humanitarian qualities and philosophy of nonviolent social change such as those demonstrated by Martin Luther King Jr.
“It came as a surprise since I didn’t know I had […]

Anthropology professor publishes guest blog about 'preppers'

Anthropology professor publishes guest blog about ‘preppers’

If you’re prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you’re prepared for anything.
At least that is what anthropology professor Chad Huddleston has found through his research with the St. Louis-based Zombie Squad.
“Their story is that they’re an anti-zombie squad, but really in reality they’re a 501(c)3 charitable organization, and they’re very interested in educating the public about […]

Anthropology, Theater and Dance collaboration featured in Anthropology News

Anthropology, Theater and Dance collaboration featured in Anthropology News

A collaboration that began with mutual interests between professors in the anthropology and theater and dance departments is the subject of a recent article an SIUE professor published in an anthropology newspaper.
Anthropology professor Aminata Cairo’s article, “Anthropology and Theater Very Likely Bedfellows,” was published in Anthropology News, the newspaper of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
“Since […]

From left: Paul Chester, Melody Chester and Clinton Sipes (seated) presenting photos from their study on tattoos

Anthropology students present fieldwork at Main Street Community Center

Assistant Anthropology Professor Dr. Aminata Cairo’s Field Methods class presented their fieldwork findings at the Main Street Community Center in Edwardsville on the evenings of Nov. 27 and Dec. 4, 2012, as an open, public event for local communities.
From left: Paul Chester, Melody Chester and Clinton Sipes (seated) presenting photos from their study on tattoos
Students […]

Anishinaabe "tinkle cone" dress, c. 1930. The garment was originally bright red and features dentallium shells, glass beads, metal conches and the cones, hand-made from rolled tin cans. The red labeling of the cans can be seen from inside the cones. Photo courtesy of Mark Proudfoot.

Image of rare Anishinaabe regalia from Willmott’s work featured in American Indian Art Magazine 2013 calendar

Anthropology professor Dr. Cory Willmott will have a photograph of a rare regalia dress from the Anishinaabe people featured in the American Indian Art 2013 calendar. The photograph is from an article that Willmott had published in the Summer 2012 issue of  American Indian Art Magazine, which featured articles by members of the Great Lakes […]

Dr. Cairo and Prof. Bentley with students at 2012 Suriname field school

Cairo, Bentley to teach second Suriname field school next summer

Assistant Anthropology Professor Dr. Aminata Cairo and Theatre Professor Kathryn Bentley will take a select group of SIUE junior-level undergraduates for a field school in Suriname from June 1 to July 8, 2012. The field school will include classes before the students depart, starting on May 22, and following the students’ return until July 15.
Dr. […]

Native American curator Ahlberg Yohe speaks at SIUE

Native American curator Ahlberg Yohe speaks at SIUE

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, Dr. Jill Ahlberg Yohe, a Mellon Fellow Curator of Native American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, came to SIUE to deliver a presentation entitled “Navajo Weaving in Curatorial and Ethnographic Practice.” The event was sponsored by the University’s Native American Studies program. Ahlberg Yohe came to the University to […]

Rehg publishes paper on callimico in International Journal of Primatology

Rehg publishes paper on callimico in International Journal of Primatology

Dr. Jen Rehg (on right) with her Peruvian colleagues (from right): Fanny Souza, Deuso Souza, and Ines Nole at the field station
Anthropology Associate Professor and Department Chair Dr. Jen Rehg has co-authored an article in the International Journal of Primatology entitled “Distribution and New Sightings of Goeldi’s Monkey (Callimico goeldii) in Amazonian Peru.” Her work […]

The cast from the Du at SIUE

CAS Does the Du

Wednesday May 30, 2012 students from the anthropology department teamed up with students from the department of theater and dance to perform, “Forbidden Love: Na Mini Du,” an abbreviated version of a traditional Surinamese Du play.  The performance is the product of an IS class taught by Kathryn Bentley (Department of Theater and Dance) and […]

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