Ninety of our undergraduate majors, including online students, graduated this Spring and many attended the Sunday morning commencement ceremony on May 7 at the O’Connell Center. We wish each of them well as they continue their journeys of life along diverse pathways. Although few may seek professional employment in Anthropology, all are better global citizens for taking up the challenge to explore and understand cultural and biological diversity as humanity’s greatest asset for more equitable futures.
In addition, seven of our graduate students enjoyed their own rites of passage by earning their Ph.D. and M.A. degrees:
Kevin McDaniel, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled Gastronauts of the Lower Amazon: Shell, Ceramics, and Landscape across Two Millennia in Caxiuana
Raphaela Meloro, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled Barriers to Lifecare and Deathcare for Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals
Roberto Munoz, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled Archaeology of Money in Colonial Puerto Rico
Sarah Staub, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled Malaria Business: Knowledge, Power and the Governance of Artemisia in the Fight against Malaria
Abebe Taffere, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled Lithic Technological Variability in the pre-50 ka Late Pleistocene Sequence at Mochena Borago Rockshelter, SW Ethiopia
Max Van Oostenburg, Ph.D., with a dissertation titled The Role of Culture in Human-Environment Interaction among Recreational Anglers in Southwest Florida
Chloe Bennink, after earning her M.A., is now certified into the Ph.D. Program
CONGRATULATIONS to all graduates!