Anthropology

10/09/2026

Join Dr. Klumbyte on Monday, October 12 in welcoming the producers of the award-winning film Mama's Voice! You will have the opportunity to meet with producer Larysa Iarovenko from the University of Toronto and co-producer Dmytro Konovalov to discuss the film. Don't miss this opportunity at 8:30 AM in Upham 002 and 10:05 AM in Harrison 304!

10/09/2026

Tonight! Alumni and friends are invited to join Dr. Hay-Rollins and the R-silience team, in coordination with Miami University, for an evening of awareness and community building. We will have spotlight stories by our guest speakers sharing their lived experience and our Miami students describing why helping with R-silience is important to them.

The event is free to attend and includes light appetizers and mocktails. Registration is encouraged.

R-silience is a team of Miami University professors and students working in partnership with community members to improve health equity by making sure that everyone has access to find recovery housing to help them on their recovery journey.

10/08/2026

Tomorrow Cameron's R-silence project is having an awareness/fundraiser event in Over-The-Rhine at the start of BLINK. I've attached a flyer, and additional info is below. If you are in the area, stop by and show your support for this amazing project!

Alumni and friends are invited to join Dr. Hay-Rollins and the R-silience team, in coordination with Miami University, for an evening of awareness and community building. We will have spotlight stories by our guest speakers sharing their lived experience and our Miami students describing why helping with R-silience is important to them.

R-silience is a team of Miami University professors and students working in partnership with community members to improve health equity by making sure that everyone has access to find recovery housing to help them on their recovery journey.

This event will be held Friday, October 9 at Miami’s Center for Community Engagement at 1300 Vine St in Over-the-Rhine Cincinnati.

09/14/2026

Emma Tibbitts, a senior and History major with a minor in English Literature, spent 6 weeks this past summer in Amazonian Ecuador researching wild woolly monkeys. She joined three other Miami students, and alumnus Nico Jaworski ('23), traveled to Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS). The research was supervised by Dr. Kelsey Ellis from the Anthropology Department. TBS is located on the Rio Tiputini and is home to 10 different species of primates. While at TBS, she learned how to conduct biological fieldwork while in a rainforest, and was able to observe and collect data on four distinct groups of woolly monkeys. Her project was investigating if maternal associations in wild woolly monkeys are influenced by the s*x of the mother's offspring. In other words, if having a male or female baby changed what individuals moms chose to associate with. She was funded by the Undergraduate Summer Scholars program, the Center for Career Exploration and Success, the Office of Research for Undergraduates, the Miami University Family Fund, and CAS's Dean's Scholar program. Her favorite part of fieldwork was finding the monkeys in the morning, and her most memorable experience in the field was when a tarantula tried to steal her backpack!

09/11/2026

09/04/2026

Anthropology and History double major Logan Denney spent a summer semester at a field school in Belize funded by an Anthropology Departmental Student Research Award. Logan wants to use this experience to help further a future career in Archaeology, specifically focusing on researching pre-contact Maya. This summer he participated in the Belize Valley Area Reconnaissance Project (BVAR), which took place in San Ignacio, Belize. For 3 weeks he worked at Yaxox, about 25 minutes away from his accommodations. Yaxox was unique because it was in the direct line of sight from Cahal Pech, another important site of the Belize Valley. The site had only been surveyed once in the 1970s, and this was the first year that excavations took place since then. Logan worked mainly on the central acropolis, and was part of the team that uncovered a central doorway, steps, and rooms with benches. Logan worked with some pre-classic figurines from Xunantunich, another BVAR site, and did artifact analyses of objects excavated in the field.

"I really enjoyed the town of San Ignacio, it was a very quaint, medium-sized town with some really good restaurants and people," Logan said. "We were lucky enough to work with local Belizean archaeologists who also had excavated at Caracol."

08/21/2025

Small Acts, Big Impact on Student's Futures: The Anthropology Student Research Fund

Funds raised through will be used to support student research projects in: archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and medical anthropology. Thanks to generous donations to the Rebecca Jeanne Andrew Memorial Research Award, students studying primatology and biological anthropology already have access to funds to conduct life-changing field research in places like Peru and Ecuador. Please help us fund student research in other areas of anthropology!

https://www.givetomiamioh.org/s/916/22/landing-int.aspx?sid=916&gid=1&pgid=20427&cid=40408&ecid=40408&ciid=163601&crid=0

08/20/2025

It's that time of year! Students are moving back and our department mascot, Franz, is ready for Fall!

08/15/2025

Small Acts, Big Impact on Student's Futures: The Anthropology Student Research Fund

Funds raised through will be used to support student research projects in: archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and medical anthropology. Thanks to generous donations to the Rebecca Jeanne Andrew Memorial Research Award, students studying primatology and biological anthropology already have access to funds to conduct life-changing field research in places like Peru and Ecuador. Please help us fund student research in other areas of anthropology!

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07/16/2024

Abby Berhalter (‘24), Sydney Davidson (‘25), Ginny Kirby (‘24), Dylan Falk (‘24), Scott Day (‘24), and Malia Abbott (‘24) presented Rediscovering Oxford: The 2023 Anthropology Department Campus Archaeology Field Season at the Undergraduate Research Forum this Spring. Along with many classmates, the six anthropology majors conducted the department’s 2023 Fall Dig at the McGuffey House. The presentation highlighted findings from the dig including numerous artifacts, a history of the sites, and archival data. Through this research, they were able to better interpret and situate their dig site to the turn of the 20th century. Their research will continue as archaeology students participate in the 2025 Fall Dig.