Anthropology accomplishments, promotions and new publications from fall 2021

Even in these difficult pandemic times, our faculty, staff and students have been busy producing cutting-edge scholarships, winning awards and achieving career milestones. We celebrate their successes and thank them for their dedication to our discipline and students.

Promotions

• Dr. Stephen Chrisomalis, promoted to professor
• Dr. Jessica Robbins, promoted to associate professor with tenure

New publications

Books, 2020-2021

• Chrisomalis, Stephen. "Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History." MIT Press
• Hill, Alex B. (M.A. '16, Ph.D. student) "Detroit in 50 Maps." Belt Publishing
• Robbins, Jessica. "Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood." Rutgers University Press
• Ryzewski, Krysta. "Detroit Remains: Archaeology and Community Histories of Six Legendary Places." University of Alabama Press
• Safransky, Sara, Andrew Newman, Tim Stallmann, and Linda Campbell. "A People's Atlas of Detroit." Wayne State University Press. [placed on Michigan Notable Book List, 2021]

Articles and book chapters, 2021

• Bray, Tamara L. (2021), "At the End of Empire: Imperial Advances on the Northern Frontier," In The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by Izumi Shimada, University of Texas Press, pp. 325-344
• Beck, Jess, Erik Gjesfjeld, and Stephen Chrisomalis (2021), "Prestige or Perish: Decisions in Academic Archaeology," American Antiquity, 86(4): 669-695
• Chen, Caleb K., Luis Flores-Blanco, and Randall Haas (2021), "Why Did Projectile-Point Size Increase in the Andean Altiplano Archaic? An Experimental Atlatl Analysis," Latin American Antiquity, October, 1-16 (online first)
• Cherry, John F., Krysta Ryzewski, Susana Guimarães, Christian Stouvenot, and Sarita Francis (2021), "The Soldier Ghaut Petroglyphs on Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles," Latin American Antiquity, 32(2): 422-430
• Chrisomalis, Stephen (2021), "The Scope of Linguistic Relativity in Graphic and Lexical Numeration," Language & Communication, 76:1-12
• Drasher, Michael, Jonathan Stillo et al. (2021), "Hear us! Accounts of people treated with injectables for drug-resistant TB," Public Health Action, 3(11): 146-154(9)
• Ellens, Samantha, Susan Villerot, and Don Adzigian (2021), "Interpreting the Sherds: Ceramic Consumption Practices in a Nineteenth-Century Detroit Riverfront Neighborhood," Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 46(1)
• Hayes, Lauren, (2021), "Language and Culture in Workplace Ethnography," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Oxford University Press
• Stanley, Erin, (2021), "(Re)membering Home, Demolition in Detroit as Dismemberment," Riverwise Magazine, January

Awards and accomplishments (summer/fall 2021)

• Harmony Durden, our department's administrative assistant, received her master's in youth and community development from Western Michigan University.
• Dr. Lauren Hayes led graduate students to the completion of a successful practicum project in partnership with D-Ford (Ford Motors) and Dr. Yuson Jung over the summer.
• Dr. Julie Lesnik was featured on PBS' NOVA episode "Edible Insects" on October 21.
• Virginia Nastase, anthropology B.A. '21, was selected to be the commencement speaker at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony on December 13.
• Dr. Andrew Newman was awarded the university's Career Development Chair for the 2021-22 academic year.
• Dr. Tareq Ramadan, Ph.D. '17, was awarded a $380,850 grant from the National Park Service to for the non-profit organization Project We Hope, Dream & Believe to restore the Inkster home of civil rights leader, Malcolm X. The Department of Anthropology is a partner on this project.
• Dr. Jessica Robbins received two awards for her 2019 article, "Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: The Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer's Center in Poland," Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 33(4):483-500. One award was issued by the Polish Studies Association, sponsored by Aquila Polonica Publishing, and another by the Polish Memory Studies Group.
• Dr. Krysta Ryzewski received a research and development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project "Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology: Integrating Archaeological Collections into Historic Spatial Data Infrastructures," which will be conducted in partnership with Michigan Tech colleagues Dr. Dan Trepal & Dr. Don Lafreniere, and the Hamtramck Historical Museum.
• Dr. Andrea Sankar was awarded the Annual Graduate Student Mentorship Award by the Medical Anthropology Student Association.
• Dr. Jonathan Stillo received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award.