The Search Committee for the new Director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory will be meeting on Thursday, Dec 8, 2016, from 10:00-11:00am in TUR 1208. Questions or comments in advance of the meeting may be directed to Ms. Patricia King (aok@ufl.edu) in the Anthropology Office. (Please include the phrase “CAPHIL Director” in the […]
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Doctoral student Ashley Sharpe featured in UF News for her research. http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/11/old-teeth-new-stories.php
SEAC Lifetime Achievement Awards William Harrison Marquardt: Bill received his PhD in 1974 from Washington University in St. Louis. He has spent much of his career in Southeastern archaeology with forays into the US Southwest and in France. He is currently the John S. and James L. Knight Curator of South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography […]
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Dr. Gerald Murray interviewed by an AP reporter on Donald Trump’s use of the term “bad hombres” http://elections.ap.org/content/trumps-bad-hombres-draws-jeers-spanish-lessons
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http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/474395637/what-can-we-learn-from-early-floridians-on-sea-level-rise
An article on a UF team-taught course has appeared in the Oct 2016 issue of the MRS Bulletin. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A501B01277F9AF03DA6398619A7A8F98/S0883769416002293a.pdf/team-taught-course-simultaneously-impacts-the-improvement-of-science-and-social-literacy.pdf The MRS Bulletin has a circulation of 20,000. Anthropology faculty involved with this course are Susan Gillespie, Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, and Ken Sassaman.
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Greetings to our anthropology family. Attached is the 3rd issue of the Anthropolibrary Newsletter. In it are many tidbits and alerts of new resources and recurring services provided by the George A. Smathers Libraries at UF that you might not know about; two new video streaming services, the return of George W. Stocking, Jr.’s “History […]
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris McCarty will be serving as the next chair of our department beginning August 16th, 2016, with a term extending three years until August 2019. Dr. McCarty has an extensive background in cultural anthropology, collaborative research, and administrative processes through his various appointments on and […]
Connie Mulligan was elected as VP/President-elect of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics at the AAPA meetings Myrian Barboza was selected as the recipient of a Ruth McQuown Scholarship Supplementary Award for a graduate student at the University of Florida
Students, as you venture off into the field please take field selfies and send them to the department. Creative lab or writing selfies are also appreciated for those of you who are not traveling to exotic locales.