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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Undergraduate ANT3930 / IDH3931 The World Columbus Found.. and How We Know It ANT4930 Applying GIS in Archaeological Research ANT4930 Evolutionary Medicine ANT4930 Sources of Law in Amazonia Graduate ANG6930 Applying GIS in Archaeological Research ANG6930 Intro to Natural History Museums ANG6930 Sources of Law in Amazonia
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. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their regular diets, each spring magnificent bright red flower displays from S. globulifera, a tree that […]
PhD student Myles Sullivan recently published an article “Amateur Minstrel Shows and Blackface Amusements at the University of Florida in the Jim Crow Era” in the Florida Historical Quarterly (vol. 99, no. 3&4). His research focused on a series of annual blackface minstrel shows at the University of Florida between 1914 and 1920 through digitized […]
Congratulations, Dr. Aaron Broadwell! Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials, an open source textbook on Colonial Valley Zapotec, authored by UF’s George Aaron Broadwell as part of a team of US academics and Zapotec community members (Xóchitl Flores-Marcial, Moisés García Guzmán, Felipe H. Lopez, George Aaron Broadwell, Alejandra Dubcovsky, May Helena Plumb, […]
Join us in celebrating World Anthropology Day! uFASA will be tabling at Turlington Plaza on Thursday and Friday from 11-3 pm.
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 […]