Stoner, AM (Forthcoming). Climate anxiety, disavowal, and the illusion of economic growth. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
Stoner, AM (Forthcoming, 2026). Climate Change, Reason, and American Higher Education: Inculcating the Self-Deception of Capitalist Society. Current Perspectives in Social Theory 42.
Dr. Malorie Albee has a recent publication with one current NMU student and two former NMU students: Albee, M. E., E. L. Roach, R. E. Smith, and R. N. Bishop. 2026. “'Ethics Seems Like an Afterthought': An Argument for Prioritizing Ethics Education in Anthropology Curricula.” American Journal of Biological Anthropology 190, no. 3: e70303. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70303.
Dr. Jane Harris, Dr. Malorie Albee, and current Anthropology students were featured in the December 2025 issue of Marquette Monthly. The article, titled, "FROST: A forensic first" detailed the history of FROST and FARL and shared some of the training and research that has been conducted thus far at these facilities. Check it out here.
Dr. Alex Stoner has a recent publication: Stoner, AM and Knowles, AJ. (2025). AI fetishism and perverse climate disavowal: Why denying destructiveness facilitates our ecological collapse. Critical Sociologyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/08969205251383421.
Past department news
Dr. Malorie Albee has another recent publication: "Albee, Malorie E. (2023). Take a load off: skeletal implications of sedentism in the feet of modern body donors. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 11(1):485-501." A link to the abstract and full downloadable pdf can be found here.
Dr. Malorie Albee has a recent publication: "Albee, M. E. (2023). A test of the New Coimbra method of recording entheseal changes as applied to the foot skeleton. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1–14." A link to the abstract and full downloadable pdf can be found here.
Dr. Alan McEvoy is back teaching for the year.
Dr. Scott Demel is in the process of writing a book that he started on sabbatical, called the Remoteness Factor - life on the frontier, coasts, and islands of the Great Lakes. The book will summarize his ongoing archaeological work on Beaver Island, Lake Michigan.
Dr. Alan McEvoy has a newly published book: When the Subject Is Rape, a nonacademic, practical guide for helping loved ones forge a path through the associated trauma. A link to a conversation about the text and his perspective can be found here.
Dr. Alexander Stoner's research is featured in the Fall, 2023 Northern Magazine. The article discusses "The Social Causes of Climate Change" and features a discussion with Dr. Stoner on his research in environmental sociology. A link to the article can be found here.
Dr. Meghan McCune will deliver the department's inaugural MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITYlecture October 19, 2023 (time/location TBA).
We are pleased to welcome assistant professor of Anthropology, Malorie Albee!
We are excited that Dr. Meghan McCune has joined us from JCC - which is part of the State University of New York system - and is now her in second year as the new Cultural Anthropologist.
Dr. Alan McEvoy has retired as Department Head after eleven years at NMU. Without the burden of administrative duties he will be enjoying the benefits of visiting with family, traveling, improving his fishing skills, and continuing as a skilled photographer. He and his leadership will be sorely missed, but we expect to see him from time to time, perhaps even teaching a class or two.
Dr. Jane Harris was included in an Alumni Spotlight on the MSUFAL blog (Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Lab). Check it out here.
Dr. Scott Demel was interviewed about AN315 Myth, Mystery, and Fraud class for NMU's North Wind student newspaper. See Instructions on Skeptics: Anthropology Course Teaches Myth and Mystery. Check it out here.
Dr. Yan Ciupak is featured as an expert in EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON CURRENT JOB MARKET TRENDS in Zippia's Future of the Job Market Report. Check it out here.
