Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend This year we welcome prospective new students to Gainesville and UF February 14 & 15. Stay tuned for our planned events, which include an afternoon picnic meet and greet for current students and faculty. We are very much in need of hosts willing to board a visiting student over the weekend. Please […]
Awards Arianne Boileau has just been awarded NSF funding for her dissertation research, “Identifying Household-level PoliticalEconomy on the Maya/Spanish Frontier through Zooarchaeology.” Congratulations, Arianne! FASA Colloquium This afternoon we have two talks, sponsored by FASA. Dr. Kelly Sams will present her talk “Disease X: An Anthropological History,” which will be followed by Alex Lowie, who will present his paper […]
Upcoming Lectures and Talks We have two upcoming FASA lectures: Today, we have a lecture from Douglas Trent, titled ““Jaguars and Professional Opportunities.” Trent is an ecologist by training and the executive director of the Instituto Sustentar (https://institutosustentar.net/) and the Research Director of the Pantanal Wildlife Program (www.bichosdopantanal.org). He will be speaking about his jaguar […]
Awards Section Please join me in congratulating Brittany Mistretta, who has been awarded a UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) Lifelong Learner’s Grant for her proposal titled “Florida Archaeology and Arts in Medicine: Exploring the Art and Environment of Early Native Florida in Hospital Outreach”. Drawing on Florida archaeological collections curated at the Florida Museum and in […]
Workshops at the Center for Teaching Excellence The Center for Teaching Excellence is dedicated to keeping faculty, staff, and teaching assistants connected and informed. Our goal is to help build a community of faculty members from all fields working together to share ideas and resources, to strengthen teaching, and maximize learning. Workshops are open to both faculty […]
Awards Section Congratulations to Laura Van Voorhis and Kelly Muzycka, who both received Elizabeth Eddy Doctoral Dissertation Write-Up Fellowships. Laura will be finishing her thesis, “Osteoarchaeological Evaluation of the Prehistoric Denizens of Fort Center, Florida” in Spring, 2020. Kelly will be writing up her dissertation, “Race and Total Knee Replacements” in Summer, 2020. Congratulations to Chris Clukay, […]
UF Meet-up at the AAAs The UF Department of Anthropology is hosting a social mixer during the AAA / CASCA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, on Friday, November 22 beginning at 8:00pm and continuing until close. Location: St. Regis Bar and Grill, 608 Dunsmuir Street. It is roughly a 10 minute walk from the convention center. We will provide […]
News and Notes from around the department, on what also happens to be National Cappuccino Day: Publications and Press UF Anthropology Ph.D. Justin Dunnavant is featured in the latest issue of Science, highlighting his research at Estate Little Princess in St. Croix. You can find the online article here, which also includes a link to a .pdf version. […]
Hi All, News and Notes: Publications The book DE ARQUEOLOGÍA HABLAMOS LAS MUJERES. PERSPECTIVAS SOBRE EL PASADO ECUATORIANO [Women Speak About Archaeology. Perspectives on Ecuador’s Past] was just published, with Ph.D. Candidate Josefina Vásquez a leader on this project and author of one of the chapters. You can find more details here, including a link to a .pdf of […]
Some news and notes from around the department: Publications Dr Maxine Margolis, Professor Emerita in our very own Department of Anthropology, has a new book, hot off the Rodman and Littlefield press: Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage, and Motherhood. Get your copy here. Career Planning at the AAA in Vancouver The Archaeology Division is organizing a […]