Beloit College Department of Anthropology

11/26/2025

Celebrating 100 Years of Anthropology the Beloit College Way

07/25/2025

So fortunate to be included on the RCA Legacy Camel Expedition and to work on the archaeology team with amazing colleagues like Dr. Candace Livingston! Check out her interview, and if you look closely, you just might spot me in the background footage:

Dr. Candace Weddle Livingston, archaeologist and professor at Anderson University highlights a history-making expedition in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

06/30/2025

You meet Beloiters everywhere! Though an anthro minor, I only got to know Kiernyn Orne-Adamson through the Roy Chapman Andrews Legacy Expediton. Here we are meeting on the streets of Ulaanbaatar at the beginning of our adventure and at the farwell banquet with Ambassador Richard L. Buangan.

06/25/2025

Prof. Shannon Fie is in Mongolia on the Roy Chapman Andrew's Legacy Camel Expedition conducting survey research and walking in the steps of Andrew's 1925 expedition. Follow the team's research on their instagram and pages!
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11/09/2024

10/25/2024 Pokagon Potawatomi Black Ash Baskets: Our Storytellers Pokagon Potawatomi Black Ash Baskets: Our Storytellers is now open in the second floor Shaw Gallery at the Logan Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit will feature handmade baskets by prominent members of the Pokagon band of Potawatomi,...

10/06/2024

"Professor Mark Warner Brings Archaeology to the People" https://www.uiargonaut.com/2024/10/04/professor-mark-warner-brings-archaeology-to-the-people/

12/04/2023

Fun story in today's Beloit Beat about Greg Long'09 bringing the Swiss tradition of Silvesterchlausen to New Glarus, Wisconsin. Enjoy! https://www.beloit.edu/live/news/5545-bringing-an-ancient-swiss-tradition-home-to

11/17/2023

More Native American Heritage Month doing's. Kiersten Faldet'24, Macie Janes'24, and Grace Maidment'23 with a display of books written by Native American authors. Most of the collection is inaccessible while the college library renovation is underway, but the students in the Campus Mounds Sustainability and Advocacy Initiative made it work.

11/17/2023

Logan Museum Reopening! Come see the amazing updates done by Bethany Fleming (visiting exhibit curator), the Museum Studies students, the Logan staff, and volunteers!

11/15/2023

Native American Heritage Month at Beloit College so far: student-led mounds tour; Chris Nelson and Fred Burwell present on Native American Archive Night; and viewing of "Killers of the Flower Moon." Many thanks to Gloria Bradley (Assistant Dean for Student Success, Equity, & Community) for organizing these events.

11/09/2023

Grace Maidment’24 presenting” at Tuesday’s Beloit and Beyond Conference. Her presentation, “Archaeological Investigations in Southern California” was the result of a summer internship at Discovery Works, Inc. Big shout out to Beth and Chris Padon for providing Grace with this amazing opportunity!