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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday, October 19th, 2:30pm Join professor Erin L. Durban and author Danilyn Rutherford for a conversation and reading about Danilyn's book Beautiful Mystery. Details: z.umn.edu/AnthBeautifu...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join the Department of Anthropology as we help the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies host the 6th Annual Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture. October 15, 2026, 5:00pm-8:00pm, at the Best Buy Theater, Northrop details z.umn.edu/Rosales2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please see a new publication from Alex Nelson, who was an undergraduate major in our department some years ago and has just co-edited a new Rutgers book, “Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility”. Congrats Alex! #umnproud #umncla

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is still room in Professor Peter Wells's Archaeology of the British Isles course this fall! Held on Wednesdays from 2:30pm-5pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There is still room in Professor Aisha Ghani's Religion and Culture course this fall! Held on Tuesdays from 4pm-6:30pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There is still room in Professor David Valentine's Talking Evidence course this fall! Held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:45am-11am! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There is still room in Professor David Valentine's Language, Culture, and Power course this fall! Held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1pm-2:15pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Maria Nieves-Colón, tells us about her research in the Caribbean and Latin America. Maria's laboratory uses ancient DNA and modern genomics to study human population history in the Caribbean and Latin America! #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There is still room in Professor Kat Hayes's Archaeological Ceramics course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30pm-3:45pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Erin L. Durban, tells us about their research "I have been working on 2 collaborative projects in the last 5 years: an oral history project with disabled anthropologists and another about the UMN's contribution to inequality in housing."

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is still room in Professor Hoon Songs's Symbolic Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm-3:15pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Peter Wells, tells us about her research in Temperate Europe, especially Germany and United Kingdom "Study of Bronze and Iron Age lifeways and visual culture" #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There is still room in Professor Hoon Songs's Art, Aesthetics and Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-11:15am! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There is still room in Professor David Lipset's Great Controversies in Anthropology course this fall! Held on Tuesdays from 10am-12:30pm! Learn more at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Aisha Ghani tells us about her research, which "combines her interests in the anthropology of religion, political theology, and philosophies of violence, in order to theorize the relationship between Islam and secularism." #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Kat Hayes, tells us about her research Right here! In the University's collections. "I study the university as a collecting institution in order to create new pathways of restoration to concerned communities. " #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, Sofía Pacheco-Forés, tells us about her research in Mexico "I use bone and tooth chemistry to study ancient migration and reconstruct the role of immigrants in the emergence of state civilizations in ancient Mesoamerica" #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Where in the World are our Faculty Wednesday? This week, faculty Michelle Brown, tells us about her research in Uganda "I study feeding competition among primates to better understand how it drives social variation. For more info, visit www.NgogoMonkeys.com #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

How do you read an animal's energetic condition from the way it moves? PhD candidate Leonie Gussone has been awarded a Bell Museum Fellowship and Natural History Award to support her research on the links between movement ecology and energetics in red-tailed monkeys in Uganda. #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today, join us for a discussion between Professor Vivian Choi and Professor Sugi Ganeshananthan about Professor Choi's book Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025). Info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Monday, join us for a discussion between Professor Vivian Choi and Professor Sugi Ganeshananthan about Professor Choi's book Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025). Info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Join us today for the 5th Annual Gudeman Lecture featuring a presentation from Dr. J.C. Salyer more information about this lecture can be found at z.umn.edu/GudemanInfo Register for the lecture and reception at z.umn.edu/GudemanLectu... #umncla #umnproud

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our Chair, Professor Stuart McLean, was recently interviewed about anthropology and the craft of writing by the substack Write What You Like. Also featured is his cat, Moira. open.substack.com/pub/writewha...

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Interview with Stuart McLean

I'll sometimes talk to the cats

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

April 27th 4pm join us for a discussion between Professor Vivian Choi and Professor Sugi Ganeshananthan about Professor Choi's book Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025). Info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Congratulations to Anthropology faculty member Dr.Maria Nieves Colón who was awarded a 2026 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. This award recognizes the careers of outstanding assistant professors at the UMN 🥳🎓. scholarswalk.umn.edu/university-a...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota @umnanth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Join us with the Department of French and Italian and others to welcome Professor Doyle Calhoun (University of Cambridge) as they discuss their book The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire on April 20th 4:30pm 135 Jones Hall.

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