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Loyola Anthro Students, Alumni, and Faculty at April Conferences: SfAA, AAPA, and CSAS
Loraine Arikat with her poster at SfAA's 2018 in Philadelphia.
Current students and recent alumni are out in force presenting original research alongside department faculty at the 2018 annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the Central States Anthropological Society.
Representing LUC Anthro at SfAA's in Philadelphia, April 3-7 were:
Loraine Arikat, senior Anthro major, who presented a poster titled "Low Wage Work and Health: Navigating Financial Insecurities and Healthcare Accessibility."
Katie Lantto ('17), who delivered an oral presentation titled "Survival Hospitality: An Ethnographic Study of the Relationship between Homelessness and Service Providers."
Dr. Catherine Nichols, who chaired a session on "Sustainable Museology: Leveraging Anthropology to Meet the Changing Landscape of Museums, in which she also presented a paper titled "Redistributing Collections: Lessons from the Past for Future Museum Collections Planning."
Representing LUC Anthro at AAPA's in Austin, April 11-14 are:
Taylor Emery('17), who is presenting a poster titled "Exploring Subsistence Strategies at Helton Using Dental Microwear Texture Analysis" in a session of contributed posters on "Bioarchaeology of the Americas."
Dr. Kristin Krueger, Evan Chwa ('17), and Alexandria Peterson('14), whose research on "Experimental dental microwear textures with implications for Neandertal diet," in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota, was presented in an invited poster symposium on "Tooth Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives."
Dr. Anne Grauer, president-elect of the AAPA and 2018 recipient of the Lasker Award.
Representing LUC Anthro at CSAS in Bloomington, IN, April 19-21 are:
Ruby Winborn, senior Anthro major, who is presenting a paper titled "Experiences of Sexualization Among Young Women of Color."
Briana Wojcik, senior Anthro minor, who will present a paper titled "The Demographics of Beauty: Differing Conceptions in Chicago Neighborhoods."
Dr. Thea Strand, who will present a paper titled "Dialect Revalorization, Nonstandard Orthography, and Linguistic Subversion in Rural Norway."
