University of Michigan Anthropology

🎓 May newsletter! https://myumi.ch/rw15E

Anthro faculty making news! The latest LSA Magazine features the work of our own Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes with banana farmers and agricultural specialists in the Philippines:

Bananapocalypse? | U-M LSA U-M College of LSA One fruit rules the world—and its demise is destabilizing for growers and consumers around the globe.

🎓 Symposium tomorrow!

Anthropology Honors Research Poster Symposium | Happening @ Michigan

🌟 An article by Assistant Professor/Michigan Society Fellow Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the Latin American Studies Association’s Health, Science and Technology Section 2026 Article Prize! Check out the award-winning article, “Home Sweet Harm: Confinement and Tranquilidad in Post-Asylum Peru” in Medical Anthropology Quarterly: https://myumi.ch/79Zm5

Faculty emeriti making news! Check out the latest research findings from our own Professor Emeritus John Mitani:

These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why. A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

🌟 Congratulations to our 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! Associate Professor and University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Associate Curator Raven Garvey joins the prestigious ranks of “the world’s best thinkers, innovators and creators in art, science and scholarship,” selected from among thousands of applicants by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read more about the fellowship—and the archaeological research it will support—here: https://myumi.ch/2rVjw

See you this Friday (4/17) at our Biological Anthropology Colloquium! Details: https://myumi.ch/g3pmQ

🗓️ Friday, April 17 | 3 p.m.
📍 411 West Hall
🎟️ Free and open to the public

🎓 We’re looking forward to celebrating the class of 2026 at two of our favorite annual events:

* Honors Research Poster Symposium: Thursday, April 30 @ 10:30 a.m. in the Titiev Library (211 West Hall): https://myumi.ch/G2kJq

* Anthro Graduation! Friday, May 1 @ 1:30 p.m. in the Modern Languages Building (Auditorium 3): https://myumi.ch/mZRJx

Congrats to our anthro graduates! 🎓

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology