anthropology

Smithsonian home to WSU anthropology prof’s bones

WASHINGTON — In a dim hallway in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, anthropologist David Hunt opens a dingy green cabinet and pulls out a drawer full of human bones. “This,” he says, “is Grover Krantz.” …. Krantz spent 30 years at Wazzu, teaching anthropology, human evolution and forensics while running the university’s anthropology […]

Prof lands fellowship to write book on Kurds

PULLMAN – Diane E. King, adjunct professor of anthropology at Washington State University, is a recipient of the 2006–2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship. King received her doctorate degree in anthropology in 2000 and has been conducting research in the Middle East and teaching at the American University of Beirut. “We received 120 applications nationwide and had […]

Prof’s research featured in Scientific American magazine

PULLMAN — The work of Washington State University anthropology professor Timothy A. Kohler will be highlighted in the July 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine.   Utilizing grants from the National Science Foundation, Kohler is principal investigator of a project that is helping to create new understanding about settlement system changes in the U.S. Southwest […]

Vancouver professor goes where most fear to tread

Barry Hewlett, an anthropology professor at WSU Vancouver, does not scare easily. Close contact with obscure bacterial infections and tropical diseases with names like river blindness and malaria may be off-putting to some, but Hewlett has traveled to Africa several times over the past 30 years to eagerly investigate many such communal outbreaks. Still, when […]