John Krigbaum and Ken Sassaman accompanied UF Professor Mike Heckenberger to a three-day ceremony honoring deceased members of a regional community he has worked with for 30 years.
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Dr. Purdy is Professor Emerita of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida (UF), and she is Curator Emerita in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville.
Ph.D. Candidate Jordi Rivera Prince was awarded the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her project “Power in the Hands of Many: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Study Social Inequality in the Ancient Andes, North Coast of Peru (400-200 cal. B.C.).”
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Congratulations to our Department’s latest Undergraduate Scholars! CLAS Scholars Program Awards: Maximillion Alegria Graylin Skates University Scholars Program Awards: Cathryn Allen Gabrielle Ray Drew McNally Daniel Ponciano Diaz Mai-Brie Conklin
Dr. Adrienne Strong’s new book, Documenting Death has been awarded the 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology. The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a significant contributions to scholarship on gender and health by a scholar (or scholars) from any discipline or nation for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced […]
Congratulations to Drs. Catherine Tucker, Marit Østebø, and Pete Collings were recently named 2021-2024 Term Professors. These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.
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Dr. Gravlee has been named an Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor for the academic year 2021-2022. The Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professorships are made possible by a generous contribution from Ms. Dunlevie, a UF graduate. The goal of the program is to encourage the most esteemed faculty at the University of Florida to participate […]
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Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborators were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. Dr. Broadwell collaborates with Zapotec speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico and diasporic communities throughout North America, other linguists, and digital scholarship experts who can […]
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Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Valley Zapotec, won an award for best digital humanities blog in 2020. Dr. George Aaron Broadwell is one of the founders of Ticha, which is a collaborative project between linguists, historians, and Zapotec people to make historical texts in indigenous languages accessible to communities. For more about the award see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2020/results/. Congrats, Dr. Broadwell!