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News and Events

2008-2009
  • "The Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival" hosted by Visual Anthropology Club on March 2, 3, and 6. See story
  • "Roots and Shoots on the loose" by Allison Griggs. Published in November 5, 2008 issue of Daily Titan. See story

2007-2008

2006-2007

  • 26th Annual Anthropology Symposium "The Many Faces of Anthropology" on Saturday April 21st, 2007.

     

  • The Spring Internship and Job Fair is Wednesday, April 25 from 10:00am – 2:00pm in the Quad. The list of employers are available at http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/career/student/jobfairprepspring.aspx.

     

  • 2nd Annual Pollak Library Prize for Undergraduate Research Papers and Projects

    v Application deadline: Friday, April 13, 2007, 5:00pm

    v Winners announced: Friday, April 27, 2007

    v Award ceremony: Week of May 7, 2007

     

  • Anthropology Major and McNair Scholar Natalie Flores write about her Undergraduate Research Experience at the LA County Museum of Natural History. (see story and picture)

     

  • THREE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT PROFESSORS WIN AWARDS - At the Fall 2006 College of Humanities and Social Sciences Convocation, Anthropology Department faculty members won three of the six awards given annually for outstanding work in various categories!

    v Dr. Jack Bedell, Chair of Anthropology, was awarded Distinguished Professor (see picture).

    v Dr. Steven R. James was awarded Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member (see picture).

    v Dr. Barbra Erickson was awarded for Outstanding Teaching.

    Other members of our faculty have previously won H&SS awards as well;

    Dr. Susan Parman, Distinguished Professor;

    Dr. Joseph Nevadomsky, Distinguished Professor;

    Dr. John Bock, Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member;

    Professor Norm Rosen, Outstanding Part Time Faculty Member;

    and Professor Armand Labbé, Outstanding Part Time Faculty Member.

  • Mesoamerican Network Fall Meeting

    Held at CSUF in UH-252, Sunday, December 3, 2006

    Speakers Dr. Carl Wendt (CSUF) Jill Speidel (UCSD), Emilio Merino (Cal State LA), Sergio Garza (UCR), and Benjamin Fierro (UCR). (see flyer)

  • Southern California Primate Research Forum

    Saturday, November 11, 2006, 8:30 am to 5pm, Mackey Auditorium @ Ruby Gerontology Center.

    Guest speakers Susan Perry (UCLA), Tatyana Humle (U of Wisconsin), Elizabeth Lonsdorf (Lincoln Park Zoo)

    and Craig Stanford (USC. Please RSVP to Norm Rosen at NormRosen@aol.com.

    For more information see SCPRF website: http://scprf.ucsd.edu.

  • Minoan Archaeology Event

    Friday, November 3, 2006 5:30 pm, University Hall 252.

    Dr. Don Evely, Curator at Knossos British School at Athens, will tell the story of the Minoan palace of

    Knossos, including exciting recent finds, new ideas about age-old enigmas, and the many problems of

    ongoing research at a world famous archaeological site.

    For more information please contact Dr. Cam Walker cwalker@fullerton.edu

    or Dr. Barbra Erickson beerickson@fullerton.edu.

  • First Friday, October 6th

    This First Friday potluck event was devoted to themes of Halloween and funerary practices!

    Dr. Linda Crowder and graduate student Emily Walker were our guest speakers [See pictures].

  • http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=40621 is the hot web link to the “Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology” article, which comes from  the “Money” column of USA Today, Feb. 18, 1999.

  • http://www.turknett.com/sectionR/advantage.asp is the hot web link to the article “Culture: The New Competitive Advantage”, which comes from the website for the Turknett Leadership Group and was published in the Dec. 1998 edition of the journal HR [Human Resources] Atlanta.

  • 2006-2007 Anthropology Department Awards

  • Other Research Grants, Scholarships, and Awards

2005-2006

  • Dr. John Bock and Dr. Sara Johnson, CSUF Anthropology professors, will present papers in Atlanta and Uganda this month. See story

     

  • Dr. Susan Parman, Professor and Chair of Anthropology Department, has been named Chair and Vice President of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. See story in Dateline Extra!

  • Nancy Jenner, Archaeology Curation Technician, won "Titan Excellence Award."

    See pictures

  • Ana Maria Armano chosen by Continuing Learning Experience (CLE) to receive the

    Older Graduate Award for 2006.  See picture and story

  • 25th Annual Anthropology Symposium "The Future of Anthropology in a Changing World" on Saturday May 13, 2006. See Pictures

  • Roots and Shoots Annual Event: Animals in the Spotlight, May 5, 2006. This year’s theme was “In Our Own Backyard: Threats to Local Wildlife.”

  • Graduate Student Keri Canada won the Phi Beta Delta Internationalist Award

  • Graduate Student Dia Flores won the President’s Associates Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • Graduate Student Jacque Swartout won a Gladys Fleckles Travel Scholarship

  • 2006 Outstanding Faculty Recognition for Service on April 12, 2006. Congratulations to Our Outstanding Faculty - Dr. Barbra Erickson, Dr. Steven James and Dr. Hilarie Kelly.

  • Welcome to Cal State Fullerton Day, April 8, 2006. See Pictures

  • Anthropology Museum Exhibit Opening on Friday, March 3, 2006

    “The Basket is in the Roots”

    click here for pictures

  • First Friday Potluck in honor of the Museum opening, Friday March 3, 2006

  • Roots & Shoots Members Volunteer at the Gibbon Center, February 19, 2006. See pictures

  • Dr. Carl J. Wendt studies the Olmec's Trade Networks. Published in February 16, 2006 issue of Dateline. See story

  • The Anthropology Department Holiday Party, Friday December 9, 2005. See pictures

  • Dr. Steve James gives a talk at the Titan Archaeology Club (TAC) on the early hominid use of fire, November 2005. See pictures

  • Dr. Cam Walker tells tales of the summer tour to the Maya sites in Mexico. First Friday Potluck November 4, 2005. See pictures

  • Dr. Carl Wendt gives a presentation to the Titan Archaeology Club (TAC) on his research sites in the Yucatan, October 2005. See pictures

  • Kat White, President of the Primatology Students Association, organized a fundraiser to benefit our Anthropology Department Award funds. Faculty and students enjoys a wine-tasting event, along with delicious crackers and cheeses, at the Wine Crush in Long Beach, October 29, 2005. See pictures

  • Welcome our new faculty members Dr. Carl Wendt and Dr. John Patton, First Friday Potluck October 7, 2005. See pictures

2004-2005

  • Commencement 2005

  • Anthropology Students Association Symposium on Globalization

    May 14, MH-121, 9 to 1:00

  • 5th Annual Animals in the Spotlight, Sponsored by Roots and Shoots

    “Bats: Fighting West Nile Virus?”

    Panel and open question and discussion period to follow.

    May 13, Humanities Building 110 (H-110), 6 to 8 pm.

  • Visual Anthropology Club Film Night: “The Children of Lazo’s Grove”

    A film by Dr. Andrei Simic of USC. Professor Simic’s research focuses on ethnicity and nationalism, American ethnic groups, social gerontology, applied anthropology, and visual anthropology.

    April 27, University Hall 252 (UH-252), 5 to 7 pm

  • Human Nature Biocultural Anthropology Speaker Series

    Dr. Richard Wrangham of Harvard “Offensive Aggression in Apes and Humans” April 21, Shapiro Wing, Ruby Gerontology Center, CSUF 5:00 pm.

    See Picture

  • Armand Labbé (1944-2005) - Memorial Service to be held Sunday, April 17, 2005 in the Bowers Museum Courtyard at 5:00pm.

  • Welcome to Cal State Fullerton Day, April 9, 2005. See Pictures

  • Dr. Susan Parman, Titan Author of the Month for March, 2005

  • “Conquest of the Pacific: Society on the Sea.”

    Anthropology Teaching Museum exhibit, opened Feb. 28, MH-426. See Pictures

  • Professor Armand Labbé, Outstanding H&SS Part Time Faculty Award

  • Being Human - Childhood's Beginning
    Why do humans have such long and drawn-out childhoods? Is it to do with learning, or growing bigger, or simply an artefact of our long lives?
    By Richard Fullagar.

2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002

  • Experiences of women are part of anthropology lecture. Published in April 24, 2002 issue of the Daily Titan. See story.

  • Geologist's Latest Project ends in Exhibit on Art of Archaelogical Curation. Published in March 14, 2002 issue of Dateline. See story.

  • Quest for Learning. Nine-year-old Stephen Gapinski learns how scientists find fossils from Susan Parman, chair and professor of anthropology. Published in March 14, 2002 issue of Dateline.

  • Peering Into The Past  An exhibition that opens at 6 p.m. Monday, March 4, in the Anthropology Teaching Museum on the fourth floor of McCarthy Hall. Published in Feb 28, 2002 issue of Dateline. See pictures

  • The Anthropology Department Transfer Day, Fall 2001. See pictures

  • Anthropologist Researches Cost of AIDS on African Families - Dr. John Bock, assistant professor of anthropology, spent July and August in Botswana, in Southern Africa, researching the effects of the HIV-AIDS epidemic on child development and the family. Published in the Nov 8, 2001 issue of Dateline.

  • Roots and Shoots Springs to Life at CSUF - The Jane Goodall Institute's "Roots and Shoots" program has a new chapter at Cal State Fullerton. Published in the May 21 2001 issue of Compendium. The Full Story