May 30, 2025 — The Department of Anthropology is pleased to share the most recent publications of its faculty and graduate students, including articles in Nature and Science. During the spring 2025 semester, we published the following:
Journal Articles
- Barquera, Rodrigo, T. Lesley Sitter, Casey L. Kirkpatrick, Dario A. Ramirez, Arthur Kocher, Maria A. Spyrou, Lourdes R. Couoh, Jorge A. Talavera-González, Mario Castro, Tanya von Hunnius, Evelyn K. Guevara, W. Derek Hamilton, Patrick Roberts, Erin Scott, Mariana Fabra, Gabriela V. Da Peña, Aryel Pacheco, Monica Rodriguez, Eugenio Aspillaga, Anthi Tiliakou, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Karen L. Giffin, Raffaela A. Bianco, Adam B. Rohrlach, Maria de Los Ángeles García Martínez, Fabiola A. Ballesteros Solís, Antti Sajantila, Shelley R. Saunders, Rodrigo Nores, Alexander Herbig, Johannes Krause, Kirsten I. Bos. 2025. Ancient Genomes Reveal a Deep History of Treponema Pallidum in the Americas. Nature 640: 186-193.
- Ingram, David J., Graden Z. L. Froese, Daire Carroll, Paul C. Bürkner, Fiona Maisels, Ajonina S. Abugiche, Sophie Allebone-Webb, Andrew Balmford, Daniel Cornelis, Marc Dethier, Edmond Dounias, Herbert G. Ekodeck, Charles A. Emogor, Julia E. Fa, Davy Fonteyn, Andrea Ghiurghi, Elizabeth Greengrass, Noëlle F. Kümpel, Karen Lupo, Jonas Muhindo, Germain Ngandjui, Gracia Dorielle Ngohouani, François Sandrin, Judith Schleicher, Dave N. Schmitt, Liliana Vanegas, Hadrien P. A. Vanthomme, Nathalie van Vliet, Adam S. Willcox, Donald Midoko Iponga, Della Kemalasari, Usman Muchlish, Robert Nasi, Yahya Sampurna, Francis Nchembi Tarla, Jasmin Willis, Jӧrn P. W. Scharlemann, Katharine Abernethy, and Lauren Coad. 2025. “Regional Patterns of Wild Animal Hunting in African Tropical Forests.” Nature Sustainability 8: 202-214.
- Lopez, Molly A, Samantha J. Reznik, Vanessa V. Klodnick, Deborah Cohen, Neely Myers, Justin F. Rousseau, Nazan Aksan, Eliel de Oliveira, and Stephen M. Strakowski. 2025. “Creating a Collaborative Culture of Learning within a Network of Community Mental Health Early Psychosis Programs in Texas.” Schizophrenia Research 276: 1-7.
- Lopopolo, Maria, Charlotte Avanzi, Sebastian Duchene, Pierre Luisi, Alida de Flamingh, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Gaetan Tressieres, Sarah Neumeyer, Frédéric Lemoine, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo, Jerome S. Cybulski, Joycelynn Mitchell, Vilma T. Marks, Linda B. Adams, John Lindo,Michael DeGiorgio, Nery Ortiz, Carlos Wien, Juri Hiebert, Alexandro Bonifaz, Griselda Montes de Oca, Vanessa Paredes-Solis, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, José G. Pereira Brunelli, Mary Jackson , John S. Spencer, Claudio G. Salgado, Xiang-Yang Han, Camron M. Pearce, Alaine K. Warren, Patricia S. Rosa, Amanda J. de Finardi, Andréa de F. F. Belone Cynthia Ferreira, Philip N. Suffys, Amanda N. Brum Fontes, Sidra E. G. Vasconcellos, Roxane Schaub, Pierre Couppié, Kinan DrakAlsibai, Rigoberto Hernández-Castro, Mayra Silva Miranda, Iris Estrada-Garcia, Fermin Jurado-Santacruz, Ludovic Orlando, Hannes Schroeder, Lluis Quintana-Murci , Mariano Del Papa, Ramanuj Lahiri, Ripan S. Malhi, Simon Rasmussen, Nicolás Rascovan. 2025. “Pre-European Contact Leprosy in the Americas and its Current Persistence.” Science. (First Release)
- Lupo, Karen D., Nicolette M. Edwards, and Dave N. Schmitt. 2025. “Forager and Food Producer Interrelationships in the Zooarchaeological Record: Lessons from Central Africa.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 77 (101655).
- McKowen, Kelly. 2025. “Making Up the Market: Job-Seeker Courses and the Ordinary Ethics of Social Investment in Norway.”Acta Sociologica (OnlineFirst).
- Myers, Neely, Robert Meeker, and Valerie Odeng. “Pastors as Partners in Care: African Immigrant Pastors’ on Mental Health Care Referral Processes for Young Congregants Experiencing Symptoms of Psychosis in the US.” Community Mental Health Journal 61(1): 138-146.
- Pinotti, Thomaz, Michael A. Adler, Richard Mermejo, Julie Bitz-Thorsen, Hugh McColl, Gabriele Scorrano, Motahareh Feizabadifarahani, Devlin Gandy, Matthew T. Boulanger, Charleen Gaunitz, Jesper Stenderup, Abigail Ramsøe, Thorfinn Korneliussen, Fabrice Demeter, Fabricio R. Santos, Lasse Vinner, Martin Sikora, David J. Meltzer, J. Victor Moreno-Mayar, Craig Quanchello, and Eske Willerslev. 2025. “Picuris Pueblo Oral History and Genomics Reveal Genetic Continuity in North American Southwest.” Nature.
- Reznik, Samantha J., Alicia Lucksted, Neely Myers, Nev Jones, Mark Savill, Shannon Pagdon, Sabrina Ereshefsky, Preethy George, Howard Goldman, Stephania L. Hayes, Vanessa V. Klodnick, Kathleen E. Nye, and Anne Williams Wengerd. 2025. “Increasing the Value of Health Intervention Trials: Qualitative Research in the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET).” Community Mental Health Journal : 1-9. (Online First)
Essays, Commentaries, and Book Reviews
- Lupo, Karen D. 2025. Invited Response for “The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice France)” by Meier et al. Current Anthropology 66 (1): 1-28.
- Singer, Elyse Ona. 2025. “Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics, edited by Risa Cromer, New York: New York University Press, 2023.” Politics, Religion & Ideology: 1–3.