We are pleased to recognize an outstanding group of students, all of whom had degrees conferred on December 16th, 2022: Terry Barbour’s dissertation is titled “The View Source Side Shell Bead Production along Florida’s Gulf Coast.” Randee Fladeboe was awarded the doctorate for her dissertation, “Reconstructing the Lives of Macaws in the Prehistoric Southwestern United […]
Ph.D. Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Materiality and Historical Ecology of Earth Mounds: The Colina da Monte Site (India Muerta Wetlands, Uruguary).” Rocío’s research examines how and why mid-to late-Holocene societies in southeast Uruguay carried out […]
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Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bartz was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in the American Southeast: Organic Residue Analysis of Stalling Period Pottery of the Middle Savannah River Valley.” Emily’s research employs organic residue analysis (ORA) to chemically analyze the resources processed within North America’s earliest pottery […]
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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Ph.D. Student Max Van Oostenburg was recently awarded an NSF DDRG for his project, “Cultural Meaning, Morality, and Outdoor Recreation in the Anthropocene.” Congratulations, Max!
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Ph.D. Student Isis Dwyer was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to support her studies of cranial variation, forensic ancestry estimation, & self identity in the Afro-Caribbean. Ford Fellowship Awards provide three years of support and are made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Congratulations, Isis!
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Hi Everyone! Here’s a couple of items for the week: Requiring ANT 3451, Race and Racism As many of you know, a petition is circulating to replace the required What is the Good Life? course with ANT 3451, Race and Racism. As of this morning, the petition had 23,000 signatures (you can find it here). Dr. […]
Hi Everyone! It’s a bit slow, news-wise, around these parts. But there are a few items: Publications and Awards Megan Cogburn just published an article in Social Science and Medicine, “Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania: On the push for numbers in maternal health.” You can find the article here. Congratulations, Megan! Corinne Futch recently […]
I hope everyone is enjoying the end of the semester. As we disperse to a different part of the our house or apartment for the summer, here are few items: Chris LeClere’s research on coffee houses has been featured in the latest issue of the UF Explore magazine. Find the article here. Molly Selba’s […]