Professor Sergei Kan’s book A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska recently won the Joan Paterson Kerr Award for the best illustrated book on the American West by the Western History Association....

“One objective for Dartmouth is to walk our walk in terms of being multidisciplinary, spanning boundaries, and getting a full representation of disciplines and approaches to the problem of disaster relief and redevelopment,” says Kenneth Bauer about the upcoming Nepal Earthquake Summit....

Prompted by a question from his 4-year-old daughter, Professor of Anthropology Nathaniel Dominy wrote a paper about the properties of reindeer eyes and how they might explain the advantage of a reindeer having a bright red nose like the famous Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

"It is quite evident that overall incidents of looting are much higher in Kurdish and opposition-held areas than in either Syrian regime or ISIL areas," says Assoc. Professor of Anthropology Jesse Casana in a National Geographic story about the destruction of Syria's ancient sites....

Using satellite imagery, Prof. Jesse Casana uncovered surprising evidence relating to looting of artifacts in Syria - on both sides of the conflict.

After the devastating earthquakes in Nepal earlier this year, Sienna Craig began to conduct field research in Mustang to understand how communities in the area perceived and dealt with the earthquake.

Dartmouth's Prof. DeSilva is one of the international team members working on the recent discovery that will fill a gap in the chain of human evolution....

The Faculty of the Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the appointments of Jesse Casana, Assoc. Professor; Jeremy DeSilva, Assoc. Professor; Sabrina Billings, Senior Lecturer; and Jennifer Carballo, Visiting Professor from Harvard University.

In an article for Pacific Standard, Associate Professor Sienna Craig discusses the discovery of distinct genetic traits among Tibetans living at high altitude, how these traits can inform advances in medicine, and the challenges of communicating medical science across cultures.

Dartmouth biological anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy and his colleagues provide elegant insight into ancient Egyptian ecology in their most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.