anthropology News Archive
![116 Sherbrook Street by Real Fresh Canvas Co (Trevor Peters & Annaliza Toledo) with Hee-Jung Serenity Joo.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Joo_WEB-150x150.jpg)
Celebrating Asian Heritage Month at UM
April 22, 2024 —
Honouring the diversity and richness of Asian cultures; advocating for equity and anti-oppression
![A group of abstract circles, upon closer look is images of people holding hands.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hello-Haiku-PNG-150x150.jpg)
Hello, Haiku
September 11, 2023 —
What better way to capture the back-to-school vibe of fall than poetry.
![Remains from the excavation site in Ribe, Denmark. // Photo: Museum of Southwest Jutland](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ASR13-DB-2795-150x150.jpg)
Deadly waves: Researchers document evolution of plague over hundreds of years in medieval Denmark
February 27, 2023 —
Longitudinal study reveals Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, was reintroduced into the population again and again
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
When old bones are young
October 13, 2022 —
Jose Sanchez's PhD dissertation makes a novel and innovative contribution to anthropology and the forensic sciences.
![Stephen Lecce, minister of education for Ontario, was challenged for his anti-Black behaviour in college. THE CANADIAN PRESS-Nathan Denette](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Stephen-Lecce-minister-of-education-for-Ontario-was-challenged-for-his-anti-Black-behaviour-in-college.-THE-CANADIAN-PRESS-Nathan-Denette-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Arts
Call out anti-Black racism every day, not as a campaign tactic
May 27, 2022 —
The tactic of uncovering anti-Black racist “indiscretions” during an election campaign is an effort to villainize politicians while upholding a colour-blind version of racism.
![Chenée Merchant](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Chenée-Merchant-Head-shot-cropped-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Visual ancestry: Telling the stories in our bones
April 18, 2022 —
Chenée Merchant's current study, recognized as a national finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge, explores new methods for identifying key features of the skull which could hold important clues to our ancestry
![Diverse group of people of color holding empty signs](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Conversation-Canada-The-colour-of-someones-skin-doesnt-equate-to-definitive-sameness-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Arts
The colour of someone’s skin doesn’t equate to definitive sameness
April 13, 2022 —
As a result of anti-Black racism, non-Black people remain ignorant about how Black people experience discrimination and how it acts as a barrier that suppresses the civic, political and economic success of Black communities in a dominant white society.
![Left to right: Vanier Scholars - Felicia Masenu, Karli Rapinda, Daniel Arujo, Anne Manson and Banting Fellows - Lauren Kepkiewicz, Phil Grayson](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Vaniers_Bantings2021-all6-umtoday-FNL-150x150.jpg)
Banting Fellows and Vanier Scholars awarded to UM
July 15, 2021 —
UM welcomes two Banting Postdoctoral Fellows to its ranks and congratulates four doctoral students on receiving Vanier Scholarships
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Research funding supports BIG ideas
June 15, 2021 —
Dozens of research projects have received over $6.5 million in funding to support research excellence in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering fields
![22 Calcite Crystals laid out againts a black background](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Calcite-Crystals-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Arts
Discovery in Kalahari shifts our understanding of early humans, new paper in Nature reports
March 31, 2021 —
Crystals found in a rock shelter change the plot of humanity’s story