In The Spotlight:

Julie Y. Chu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Daria Tsoupikova (University of Illinois Chicago) will offer a sneak preview of the immersive VR project, Fulfillment: A field guide to the logistical city on September 16th as part of the ACM Hypertext conference in Chicago.
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New research led by Madeleine McLeester, PhD'17 (Anthropology) and published in Science, found that an area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. Read about this discovery in the New York Times.

Scholars including Michael Dietler bring novel data and perspectives to the study of economic, cultural, and territorial networks in the Mediterranean before the region was connected by Rome in Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia (900-200 BCE).