Guest Speaker to Discuss a New Species of Human
The 2018 Cynthia Irwin-Williams Lectureship guest speaker is Juliet K. Brophy, Ph.D. Dr. Brophy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Louisiana State University and is a biological anthropologist with a specialization in Paleoanthropology. In 2014, she began analyzing teeth from the Rising Star fossil site in South Africa. Her presentation, “Discovering Homo Naledi: the Newest Species in the Human Line”, will highlight what findings she and the team concluded while researching the fossil teeth. She will also discuss the unique anatomy of the skeleton and describe the mystery as to how the fossils came to be in the cave. The presentation is sponsored by the ENMU Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology and Mu Alpha Nu Anthropology Club. It will be at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23rd. in room 110 of the Art and Anthropology Building on the ENMU campus and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 575.562.2206 or email enmu.anthropology@enmu.edu.
The Eastern New Mexico University Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology established the Cynthia Irwin-Williams Lectureship in 1977 to honor former faculty member Dr. Cynthia Irwin-Williams. Cynthia earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1957 and 1958 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963. With 30 years of professional experience, her specialties included archaeology and related aspects of geology, paleontology, climatology, remote sensing, desertification and desert reclamation. She taught at ENMU from 1964 to 1982. She then became the executive director of the Social Science Center, Desert Research Institute of Reno, Nevada, where she remained until her death in 1990.
