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Chelsea Hunter awarded an NSF REG grant

Offered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Experience for Graduates (REG) grant provides supplemental funding to support the cost of a “Cultural Anthropology student’s closely…

Paper in Human Ecology

Our paper Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies just came out in Human Ecology.

Moritz, Mark, Shane Scaggs, Craig Shapiro, Sarah Hinkelman. 2020 Comparative Study of…

Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship

Our research team was awarded a Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society to study grazing pressure in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman. The team consists of Lawrence…

Paper in Journal of Arid Environments

Our paper, Trends and spatial patterns of 20th century temperature, rainfall and PET in the semi-arid Logone River basin, Sub-Saharan Africa, has been published in the Journal of Arid Environments…

From a microscope to the Middle East

Annalee Sekulić started volunteering for the Ancient Socioecological Systems in Oman (ASOM) project as a sophomore, and soon after she found herself traveling to the Arabian Peninsula to do…

Talk at African Studies Program

I visited Penn State University to give a talk about Insecurity and its impacts on pastoral systems in the Chad Basin in the Seminar Series of the African Studies Program and meet with…

Wenner-Gren Workshop: Beyond Ranchers and Pastoralists

Nikolaus Schareika and I received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to study the diversity and dynamics of livestock husbandry systems, i.e., go beyond the categories of ranchers and…

Designing Ethnographic Research

I will present a new talk in the EED Research Seminar Series on how anthropologists use rigorous research design in ethnographic research projects in which I draw from my research with mobile…

Growing Pastoral Societies

Daniel Peart presented preliminary results from our ASOM project at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Vancouver, Canada.