William Lipe, emeritus professor, anthropology, was named a 2023 distinguished alumnus of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in recognition of his leadership on several major projects of national significance.
Timothy Kohler, professor emeritus, anthropology, was named to the National Academy of Sciences.
Numerous publications, presentations, and other accomplishments of anthropology faculty can be found in the department’s winter/spring newsletter.
Edward Hagen, professor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver, received the 2021 Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
A listing of many recent publications by anthropology faculty is available in the department newsletter.
Andrew Gillreath-Brown, doctoral candidate, anthropology, authored Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney: Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico (University of Utah Press).
Andrew Gillreath-Brown, doctoral candidate, anthropology, coauthored “Disentangling Ecological and Taphonomic Signals in Ancient Food Webs” in Paleobiology.
Bonnie Hewlett, clinical assistant professor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver, received the 2020 CAS Outstanding Career Achievement award.
Courtney Meehan, associate professor, Edward Hagen, professor, and Katherine Flores, doctoral candidate, anthropology, and Abhishek Kaul, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, coauthored with colleagues “Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Tim Kohler, regents professor, Laura J. Ellyson, doctoral student, and R. Kyle Bocinsky, alumnus (PhD ’14), anthropology, coauthored “Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest” in Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response and Collapse (Berghahan Books, New York).