Content Tagged with: Department of Anthropology

Cecilia Vásquez recognized for anthropology work

Award comes from the Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Anthropology professor co-authors study about climate change and the effects on human health

The study uses bioarchaeological data to trace the impact of climate change over the past 5,000 years

By Julia Woock |

How do diasporic Ethiopians make their futures in Southern California?

Anthropologist Worku Nida and a team of international scholars have just launched an ethnographic study of how Ethiopian immigrants make their futures and good life through informal savings and insurance associations

By Holly Ober |

Explorers Club names UC Riverside archaeologist one of 50 people changing the world

Club member Ayana Omilade Flewellen was listed for her terrestrial and underwater archaeological work uncovering the lives of enslaved people of African descent

By Holly Ober |

Two UC Riverside researchers named AAAS Fellows

Professors of anthropology and computer science join this year’s class of 416 fellows

By Tess Eyrich |