Dr. Kathleen Fine-Dare, professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women’s Studies, wins Roger Peters Distinguished Professor Award
It may be rightly said that without Dr. Kathleen Fine-Dare, Fort Lewis College would not be the institution it is today. From the time she arrived in 1983 from the University of Illinois as a temporary professor to today, she has contributed to the creation and ongoing success of several College programs.
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Service project in Tanzania challenges students’ perceptions of the world, other people, cultures, and themselves
This summer, 11 Fort Lewis College students went to class, like lots of other students. But their classroom was the country of Tanzania.

Lying along the coast of the Indian Ocean just south of the equator, the United Republic of Tanzania is home to some of Africa's best-known landmarks and landscapes: the plains of the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and glacier-topped Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain at 15,100 feet.
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Dr. Dawn Mulhern introduces Fort Lewis students to the ‘absolutely fascinating’ field of biological anthropology
When Dr. Dawn Mulhern graduated from the University of Colorado with her master’s and Ph.D. in anthropology, she came upon what any anthropologist would consider the opportunity of a lifetime. After filling in for a professor on sabbatical at Colorado College for one year, Dr. Mulhern’s CU connections landed her a position with the department of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington D.C.
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Southwestern archaeology field class studies the old fashioned way
When you're studying archaeology in the Four Corners, why learn about it from text book or in a classroom when you can get out there and discover it for yourself?
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