News & Events

November 6, 2024
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You're Invited!
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Calendar October 19, 2024 as Sonoma State University’s Anthropological Studies Center and the Society for California Archaeology host the Northern

ASC's Mark Selverston and Chris Ward Receive Distinguished Award
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Mark Selverston and Chris Ward were awarded the Nevada County Historical Society Distinguished Service Award for their contributions to the researc

Fire Tales: Stories from the Front Lines of the Wildfires
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

California Humanities is hosting a virtual panel that will reflect upon how the humanities are interacting with communities affected by the fires.

ASC's Doshia Dodd Receives Trustees' Award!
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

ASC employee and CRM graduate program student, Doshia Dodd, received a Trustees' Award, California State University's highest recognition for stude

The Nomura Nursery in San Leandro in the 1920s
Japanese American Floral Industry Panel
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

ASC Oral Historian Dana Ogo Shew and members of the Contra Costa Japanese American Citizens League discussed the Japanese American owned greenhouse

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Cremains Recovery Oral History Project Interview
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant, the “Ashes from Ashes: Recovering Cremains from the Wreckage of California Wildfires” project aims

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An Introduction to Archaeological Predictive Modeling
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Predictive modeling has a long and controversial history in archaeology.