Faculty-Staff Achievements
Diane Barnes, senior teaching professor of Spanish, recently volunteered at the El Paso, Texas,
nonprofit organization Annunciation House aiding migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico
border. Barnes recounted her experience at the border in a recent .
Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, has received an award from the Rust Family Foundation for a project entitled âPreparing a High-Resolution Chronology of Xultun, Guatemala,â which will enable examination of the critical periods of social change in the Mayan civilization spanning the Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic periods (1000 BCE to CE 950).
Hurst will also make an appearance on the new National Geographic Channel series 51²è¹Ý¶ùLost Treasures of the Mayaâ at 9 p.m. March 25. In the episode, â,â lost pyramids and hidden treasures reveal the epic scale of the ancient Mayan civilization.
A paper co-authored by Neal Matherne, Mellon museum-library collection ethnographer, has been published. The article,
âMeaningful Donations and Shared Governance: Growing the Philippine Heritage Collection
through Co-curation at the Field Museum,â appears in .
Sónia Silva, associate professor of anthropology, published an article in French for the Quebecois
journal of anthropology, . The articleâs title is 51²è¹Ý¶ùTemps, preÌdiction et avenir dans la divination reÌtrospective:
Une eÌtude de cas en Zambie,â which translates to âTime, Prediction, and the Future
in Retrospective Divination: A Case from Zambia.â
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