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Spotlights

Jasmine Walker sits smiling in the cockpit of an airplane
College to career: How Jasmine Walker applied anthropology to shape digital innovation
Wayne State Anthropology Alum Cory Nummer poses with former Red Wing goaltender Mike Vernon and the Stanley Cup
Digging into hockey history: How Anthropology Alum Cory Nummer became a Red Wings curator
Brendan Doucet poses in the field
College to Career spotlight: Q&A with anthropology alum Brendan Doucet
Elizabeth smiling in Japan
Anthropology College to Career spotlight: A research manager’s path from academia to industry
Amy Krull at a gallery
College to Career spotlight: How anthropology alum Amy Krull Protects Michigan’s History
Colleen analyzing lab samples
Colleen Linn: Exploring how groundwater contamination affects state-citizen relationships
Glass bottle tops with wrappers
Amanda Stockton: The changing fabric of urban social life in Hamtramck around the Prohibition era
A drawing titled “The Genius of Advertising” from an 1880 issue of the National Police Gazette shows men outside a brothel gazing at pictures of some of the attractions awaiting them inside
Julie Julison: Sex workers and the 19th-century city
Andrés working on a laptop in class
College to Career Spotlight: Dr. Andrés Romero, Ph.D. '22
Indy Cart in a brown orange shirt, smiling with glasses on
College to Career Spotlight: Q&A with anthropology alum Indy Carter
photo of Dr. Erfan Saidi Moqadam
Pre-Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Erfan Saidi Moqadam
Photo of Dr. Tareq Ramadan with Governor Gretchen Whitmer holding a copy of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism by Nadine Naber
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Tareq A. Ramadan
Dr. Darga and Dr. Lesnik
Alumni Spotlight: Linda Darga
Amy Krull
Alumni Spotlight: Amy Krull
Isis Gillespie smiling
Student Spotlight: Isis Gillespie
Ashley Ross headshot
Alumni Spotlight: Ashley Ross, M.A.
Headshot of Alex Hill
Ph.D. Spotlight: Alex Hill
Alumni Spotlight: Craig Meiners
Portrait of Molly Sanford
Alumni Spotlight: Molly Sanford
Alumni Spotlight: Alex Beaudin
Jasmine Walker
Alumni Spotlight: Jasmine Walker
Portrait of Charles E. Orser, Jr.
M.A. Charles Orser, Jr. lifetime achievement award
Portrait of Bettie Kay McGowan
Bettie Kay McGowan: U.N. delegate, EMU adjunct professor
Portrait of Virginia Dickie
Virginia Dickie, occupational therapist, cultural anthropologist
Portrait of Willie McKether
Willie McKether: VP of diversity and inclusion at University of Toledo
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