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Friday Scrapbook September 13, 2019

Hi All, It’s the Friday the 13th/Full Moon Edition of the Scrapbook.  This spooky combo only happens every 20-30 years, so be sure to save your copy:  this rare issue might be worth money someday on Ebay! Some Items from around the Department: Upcoming Events Potlatch this year is October 12 — less than a month […]

Friday Scrapbook September 6, 2019

Awards Section MD-PhD trainee and anthropology student Chu Hsiao was awarded a 5-year $219,000 NIH F30 NRSA award, “Biocultural investigation of maternal adversity on gene expression and RNA methylation in the placenta” under the mentorship of Drs. Connie Mulligan and Maureen Keller-Wood. The F30/31 NRSA is one of the most prestigious fellowships an MD-PhD trainee can possibly obtain. She is the first student in […]

Matthew Albrecht

Graduate Student Email: matthewalbrecht@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, 2023 M.D. P. Master’s in Development Practice (School of Geography), University of Arizona, 2015 B.A. Political Science, Montana State University, 2011 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Chris McCarty Dr. Jeffrey C. Johnson Research Interests My research focuses on the impacts of climate change on human health, […]

Shambhavi Bhushan

Graduate Student Email: s.bhushan@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A. Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi B.A. Sociology, University of Delhi Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Abdoulaye Kane Research Interests Contemporary movement of African nationals to South Asia is substantial due to constrained migration policies in Western Europe and USA. Studies […]

Camille Baylis

Graduate Student Email: gbaylis@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, In Progress M.A. Anthropology, 2020 B.A. Anthropology, Centre College, 2015 B.A. International Studies, Centre College, 2015 Subfield Cultural Anthropology Chair Dr. Pete Collings Research Interests Cultural anthropology; Community-led conservation movements; Human ecology; Resilience and adaptability strategies; Climate change and perceptions of vulnerability; Social-ecological systems Selected Publications   Grants, Fellowships, […]

Siobhan Summers

Graduate Student Email: ssummers11@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A.A. Applied Anthropology, University of Maryland College Park, 2018 B.A. Anthropology, Dickinson College, 2015 A.A. General Studies (Concentration: Sociocultural Anthropology), Montgomery College, 2013 Subfield Biological Anthropology Chair Dr. Valerie Burke DeLeon Research Interests Forensic anthropology, postcranial skeletal morphology, ankle morphology focusing on the talus, […]

Felipe Acosta-Muñoz

Graduate Student Email: facostamunoz@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A. Cultural Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2019 B.A. Anthropology and Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017 Subfield Linguistic Anthropology Chair Dr. Aaron Broadwell Research Interests Language revitalization, indigenous languages of Latin America, language ideology, language endangerment, bilingualism/ multi-lingualism, sociolinguistics, […]

Henna Bhramdat

Graduate Student Email: bhramdath@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, In Progress M.A. Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, 2018 B.A. Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, 2014 Subfield Biological Anthropology Chair Dr. David Daegling Research Interests Primate evolution; mathematical modeling; bone biology; functional morphology; anatomy Selected Publications   Grants, Fellowships, and Awards Graduate School Funding Award, University of Florida Thesis and Dissertation […]

Grace Calhoun

Graduate Student Email: grace.calhoun@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. M.A. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress B.S. Anthropological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2019 B.S. Physics and Astrophysics, The Ohio State University, 2019 Subfield Biological Anthropology Chair Dr. David Daegling Research Interests Primate Evolution, Biomechanics, Locomotion, Functional Morphology Selected Publications   Grants, Fellowships, and Awards  

Isis Dwyer

Graduate Student Email: isisdwyer@ufl.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress M.A. Anthropology, New York University, 2019 B.A. Anthropology and Cognitive Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 2017 Subfield Biological Anthropology Chair Dr. Valerie Burke DeLeon Research Interests Craniofacial variation, macromorphoscopic traits, forensic anthropology, forensic ancestry estimation, self-identified race/ethnicity, critical race theory, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx communities Selected Publications […]