Ph.D. Student Max Van Oostenburg awarded NSF DDRG
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 awarded Ford Foundation Fellowship
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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Dr. Lance Gravlee a featured panelist on Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma
Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma Dean David Richardson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosted a panel discussion titled, “Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma,” on November 12 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Lance Gravlee joined two distinguished CLAS faculty members, Dr. Della V. Mosley, co-founder of […]
Documenting Death
More about this book: “Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing […]
Upcoming Coffee Talks with Graduate Students – Nov 9, 10, and 12!
Hello everyone! There will be a series of Coffee Talk panels with UF Anthropology graduate students next week so that undergrads can ask questions about their research, experiences in graduate school, and the grad school application process. The panels are divided up by subfields with Archaeology on Novemer 9th, Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology on November […]
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Women in Fundamentalism
More about this book: “Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, the fundamentalist offshoots of these religions subject women to myriad restrictions in their daily lives. All three seek to maintain male control over women’s bodies, women’s […]
Friday Bulletin June 5, 2020
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. […]
Friday Bulletin May 22, 2020
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 […]
Friday Bulletin May 8, 2020
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 […]