Faculty-Staff Achievements

 

Diane Barnes, senior teaching professor of Spanish, recently volunteered at the El Paso, Texas, nonprofit organization Annunciation House aiding migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Barnes recounted her experience at the border in a recent Times Union article.

Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, has received an award from the Rust Family Foundation for a project entitled “Preparing a High-Resolution Chronology of Xultun, Guatemala,” which will enable examination of the critical periods of social change in the Mayan civilization spanning the Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic periods (1000 BCE to CE 950).

Hurst will also make an appearance on the new National Geographic Channel series “Lost Treasures of the Maya” at 9 p.m. March 25. In the episode, “Secrets of the Lost City,” lost pyramids and hidden treasures reveal the epic scale of the ancient Mayan civilization.

A paper co-authored by Neal Matherne, Mellon museum-library collection ethnographer, has been published. The article, “Meaningful Donations and Shared Governance: Growing the Philippine Heritage Collection through Co-curation at the Field Museum,” appears in Museum Anthropology.

Sónia Silva, associate professor of anthropology, published an article in French for the Quebecois journal of anthropology, Antropologie et Sociétés. The article’s title is “Temps, prédiction et avenir dans la divination rétrospective: Une étude de cas en Zambie,” which translates to “Time, Prediction, and the Future in Retrospective Divination: A Case from Zambia.”

 

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