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Diane Barnes, senior teaching professor of Spanish, recently volunteered at the El Paso, Texas, nonprofit organization Annunciation House aiding migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Barnes recounted her experience at the border in a recent .

Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, has received an award from the Rust Family Foundation for a project entitled 鈥淧reparing a High-Resolution Chronology of Xultun, Guatemala,鈥� which will enable examination of the critical periods of social change in the Mayan civilization spanning the Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic periods (1000 BCE to CE 950).

Hurst will also make an appearance on the new National Geographic Channel series 鈥淟ost Treasures of the Maya鈥� at 9 p.m. March 25. In the episode, 鈥�,鈥� lost pyramids and hidden treasures reveal the epic scale of the ancient Mayan civilization.

A paper co-authored by Neal Matherne, Mellon museum-library collection ethnographer, has been published. The article, 鈥淢eaningful Donations and Shared Governance: Growing the Philippine Heritage Collection through Co-curation at the Field Museum,鈥� appears in .

S贸nia Silva, associate professor of anthropology, published an article in French for the Quebecois journal of anthropology, . The article鈥檚 title is 鈥淭emps, pre虂diction et avenir dans la divination re虂trospective: Une e虂tude de cas en Zambie,鈥� which translates to 鈥淭ime, Prediction, and the Future in Retrospective Divination: A Case from Zambia.鈥�

 

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