Spotlight Winter 2025

Graduate Student Spotlight Winter 2025

Renee Kuban — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:39:49 +0000

Graduate Student Spotlight Winter 2025 Renee Kuban Tue, 12/09/2025 - 15:39

Chilton Tippin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate)

My research explores themes of climate change, megadrought, water contamination, colonization, border violence, river-based resistance movements, and the contested meanings of water and rivers along the binational Rio Grande/Bravo watershed. In 2024, I spent a year in three geographic regions of the river, conducting multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork as I organized with activists and small farmers mobilizing to defend water in Northern New Mexico, the El Paso–Juárez Borderlands, and Chihuahua, Mexico’s Rio Conchos Valley. My dissertation examines how the Rio Grande/Bravo is a site of widespread ecological violence that nevertheless inspires grassroots movements in defense of water, communities, and place-based livelihoods.

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Undergraduate Spotlight Winter 2025

Renee Kuban — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:38:56 +0000

Undergraduate Spotlight Winter 2025 Renee Kuban Tue, 12/09/2025 - 15:38

M Jordan (Anthropology, BA in Progress)

M Jordan is a senior majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Geology and a certificate in GIS. They assist in a variety of bioarcheological research projects in Dr. Lauren Hosek’s lab and help transcribe agricultural census data under Dr. Eric Jones. M’s senior thesis revolves around the identity of 19th century cowboys in Boulder County, and they are transcribing data from the 1885 Colorado Population Census to pursue their curiosities. Through working under Dr. Eric Jones as a mentor, M can apply their current research and interests to a larger project centered on 19th century upstate New York.

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Alumni Spotlight Winter 2025

Renee Kuban — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:37:07 +0000

Alumni Spotlight Winter 2025 Renee Kuban Tue, 12/09/2025 - 15:37

Willi Lempert (Anthropology, PhD 2018)

Willi Lempert is the Osterweis Family Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. His research projects are united by a focus on the implications of Aboriginal Australian representations for the future of their communities. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous media organizations in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia, his book Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema (2025, University of Minnesota Press) traces the dynamic process of filmmaking as a critical mode of political transformation, as well as a social process through which Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.

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Faculty Spotlight Winter 2025

Renee Kuban — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:35:58 +0000

Faculty Spotlight Winter 2025 Renee Kuban Tue, 12/09/2025 - 15:35

Gabrielle Cabrera (Cultural Anthropology)

My research is about the everyday life experiences of undocumented migrants in California’s San Joaquin Valley. As an anthropologist, I am interested in the social meanings and process of waiting for citizenship, “legalization,” and “a better life” amongst migrants.

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