Alumni News

READ: alumna Laura Heath-Stout’s recent publications

Check out alumna Laura Heath-Stouts recent publications below: Heath-Stout, Laura E., and Catherine L. Jalbert. “Funding in the “Field”: An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020).” Journal of Field Archaeology. Her coauthored article “Confronting Ableism in Archaeology with Disability Expertise” came out in the SAA Archaeological Record this fall: […]

READ: alum Sumanto Al-Qurtuby’s recent publications

Alum Sumanto Al-Qurtuby’s published many articles in 2022. Check out a few of them below! Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1337-2#about   “Polemics on Smoking among Indonesian Muslims and Islamic Organizations” (with M. Mukhsin Jamil). Contemporary Islam 16 (2): 1-22, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-022-00490-w  “Between Polygyny and […]

READ: Prof. Marston & alumna Kathleen Forste’s article, “Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon”

EAL alumna Kathleen Forste (GRS ’20) and John M. Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon” just published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. This article publishes the full Islamic- and Crusader-period archaeobotanical assemblage from Ashkelon, which provides robust evidence for the complex […]

READ: Alumni, Jacob Negrey’s article

BU Anthropology alum Jacob Negrey (GRS ’19) has published a new paper “Female reproduction and viral infection in a long-lived mammal”. Read it here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.13799

READ: Alum Huwy-min Lucia Liu’s book, Governing Death, Making Persons

Coming soon is BU Alum Huwy-min Lucia Liu’s new book with Cornell University Press. The Anthropology Department sends a warm congratulations to Huwy-min Lucia Liu! The book, titled Governing Death, Making Persons, tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese […]

READ: PhD Faye Harwell, alumni Dr. Lara Drugavich & Prof. Cheryl Knott’s article, “A composite menstrual cycle of captive orangutans, with associated hormonal and behavioral variability”

Read the new article by Faye Harwell, Dr. Lara Durgavich, and Prof. Cheryl Knott! Great work by current PhD candidate, Faye Harwell, alumni Dr. Lara Durgavich, and Professor Cheryl Knott! Their paper documents the sexual behaviors and menstrual cycles of orangutans. Check it out here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.23420