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Message from the Chair, May 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Looking back, it feels like this past Winter 2022 semester could have pushed our minds and hearts to the limit. Our faculty and students were so excited to return to campus in January that we arranged for over 80 percent of our anthropology courses to be offered in person. But then the omicron variant surged in December and classes had to begin remotely. This meant that many of our faculty sacrificed their hard-earned down time over winter break to adapt in-person course content for online formats. Students also missed out on the experiences of reconnecting with each other at the start of a new term...
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Awards and achievements |  | Awards & Achievements Our faculty and students are recognized for their impactful scholarship, teaching, and mentorship. We celebrate their accomplishments here. | | |
Recent graduates | | | | Alumni Placements & Updates Our Wayne State Anthropology alumni are applying their anthropological training and knowledge in a wide variety of professional careers. Check out their latest job placements. |  | | |
Programs and events |  | Professor Bray Hosts SAR Seminar in Santa Fe Professor Tamara Bray, together with Lori Khatchadourian of Cornell University, recently hosted a week-long Advanced Seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. | | |
Local engagements |  | Art & Archaeology Collaboration in Detroit Recent community-based archaeological excavations in the backlot of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) revealed the intact remains of a nineteenth-century greenhouse, dormitory for homeless women and children, and a privy from a women’s prison. This exciting partnership between artists and archaeologists promises future collaborations in the service of unearthing understandings of the city. | | |
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Alumni spotlight |  | Dr. Linda Darga, Bioanthropologist Dr. Linda Darga graduated from Wayne State University in 1975 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology. Her dissertation was titled, Immunological and Electrophoretic Investigations of Catarrhine Evolution. She remembers her time at Wayne State fondly. | | |
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