Articles tagged with 'Anthropology' | CSUSM

CSUSM NewsCenter (Anthropology)

2023
September
13,
2023
| 09:28 AM America/Los_Angeles
Jon Spenard was stuck between a rock and a hard place – literally.He had crawled on his hands and knees for a couple hundred feet through a pitch-dark tunnel in a cave in the jungles of Belize, with a headlamp illuminating his way. This was just the
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2022
December
09,
2022
| 15:08 PM America/Los_Angeles
Students in a Cal State San Marcos anthropology class this semester worked with a nonprofit organization that serves homeless people in San Diego, in the process developing a deeper understanding of their lived experience.The course ANTH 460:
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November
07,
2022
| 13:06 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos professor and anthropological archaeologist Jon Spenard developed a series of hands-on activities to teach his students about first-century technologies.  Spenard invited Nick Hearth, senior archaeologist for Michael
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September
12,
2022
| 15:09 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos anthropology professor Konane Martinez has been appointed as the new faculty director of the National Latino Research Center.As faculty director, Martinez will oversee new projects analyzing data from the 2020 U.S. Census and
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2021
October
26,
2021
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos professor Bonnie Bade is part of a team of academic researchers who came together last year to study the effects of COVID-19 on the vulnerable population of farmworkers throughout the
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March
17,
2021
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
The question might have been considered predictable, coming as it did at the start of a course in American Indian studies. After the professor, Joely Proudfit, proudly declared her Native heritage, she asked the students whether any
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February
24,
2021
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Bonnie Bade has worked closely with farmworker communities for more than three decades, and she’s part of a small, tight-knit coterie of researchers who study agricultural labor in California. So when the coronavirus pandemic
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2020
September
09,
2020
| 10:02 AM America/Los_Angeles
Three Cal State San Marcos professors are serving on a task force that is developing policies and programs to help members of underserved communities in the San Diego region that have been severely affected by the coronavirus
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May
12,
2020
| 12:34 PM America/Los_Angeles
As Cal State San Marcos faculty and staff continue to go above and beyond on behalf of students and the campus community during the COVID-19 crisis, we’re pleased to highlight some of the campus heroes as nominated by students and
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2017
November
03,
2017
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Dr. Konane Martinez, who serves as chair of the Cal State San Marcos Anthropology Department, has been appointed to the California Office of Binational Border Health Advisory Group, a move that places her in a position to influence binational
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May
05,
2017
| 12:56 PM America/Los_Angeles
Talk about going above and beyond. A pair of Cal State San Marcos anthropology students who served as note takers during focus group discussions in creating a new Civic Action Plan at CSUSM took the initiative to author a separate analysis
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2014
November
17,
2014
| 16:20 PM America/Los_Angeles
To the untrained eye, the landscaping along a sun-soaked CSUSM hillside looks like little more than a typical Southern California drought-tolerant garden. But it’s not. Since its inception in 2007, CSUSM’s Community Ethnobotany
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