Lehigh News recently featured Assistant Professor of Anthropology Armando Anzellini and his bone research that looks at the past to learn about the present.  One of many research projects he is actively engaged in, Dr Anzellini is assisting in analyzing three different burial methods used in a Romanian graveyard. Read the full article by Stephen Gross here: 

https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/bone-research-studies-romanian-social-structure-health-in-aging

Dr. LaToya Council, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was recently awarded a Faculty research Grant from OVPR to work on her book project, Wellbeing: Marriage, Family and Gender in the Black Middle Class.  The resulting research and book are expected to address a significant gap in the literature while also providing a more nuanced understanding of the intersectionality of race, gender, and class.

Dr. Armando Anzellini, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty research Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.  His project is entitled: "Power in Life and Death: Elite Demographics, Identity, and the Embodiment of Inequality at the Cliff Tomb Sites of Chachapoyas, Peru" and continues ongoing research on the ancient Andean culture.  Dr Anzellini and 3 undergraduate students will travel to Peru this summer as part of this project.

After earning a BA in Anthropology here in 2022, Isabel is now earning her Master's at Yale in Archaeological Studies, with a concentration on the evolution of the human diet in eastern Africa. Her field work has been based in Malawi.  The photo shows her in Karonga Museum.