Professor Craig Receives COVID-19 Spark Award

Anthropology Associate Professor, Sienna Craig, has received funding for a project to address the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the outbreak. "Structural Inequality and Epidemiological Invisibility: Himalayan New Yorkers Respond to COVID-19" is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, The Endangered Language Alliance, and University of British Columbia.

Professor Thayer Awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award

Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award.

Luke Fannin Awarded 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

PhD student, Luke Fannin, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Professor Dominy's study of Monty Python's sketch, "The Ministry of Silly Walks" is profiled in the news

The paper is titled, "Peer review at the Ministry of Silly Walks" and it is published in the journal Gait & Posture (

Ryan Collins Joins Anthropology Department as Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow

Dartmouth's Neukom Institute announced next year's class of Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows, recruited out of a pool of 106 applicants.

In the News: Jeremy DeSilva

Lucy's Brain Was Part Ape, Part Human The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974.

Dartmouth Global Health Programs Grow and Extend Reach

The value of the untenured forest: land rights, green labor, and forest carbon in the Brazilian Amazon

Maron Greenleaf

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The value of the untenured forest

A Government-run Program Implements a New Model for Carbon Credits