It’s not unusual for NIU anthropology students to find themselves working alongside nationally recognized scholars who have made major discoveries attracting world attention.
Dan Gebo, a Board of Trustees Professor of Anthropology, led a team of researchers who discovered the fossils of 45-million-year-old, thumb-length primates. The find made the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post and newspapers worldwide.
Susan Russell has spent the last six years working on projects designed to help bring peace to the war-torn southern Philippines. With more than $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of State, these projects bring young people from Christian, Muslim and Animist religious communities together to reconcile their differences and learn about U.S. institutions that promote tolerance and diversity.
Winifred Creamer, an NIU Presidential Research Professor of Anthropology, is part of a team of scientists who have determined Peru was home to the Americas’ oldest cities. Creamer takes students with her each summer to dig at these ancient sites.
Kendall Thu is the editor of the journal, Culture & Agriculture, a national peer-reviewed journal that has an interdisciplinary readership among anthropologists and archaeologists, as well as researchers and practitioners in related fields including sociology, agricultural economics, food studies, policy sciences, and diverse branches of farming and natural resource management.
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Dr. Leila Porter : 2009-Bolivia Slide Show