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 […]
Dr. Prieto was recently awarded the “2019 SAF Field Discovery Award” by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum for “Recognizing Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of our knowledge of the Human Past.” The Shanghai Archaeology Forum is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of archaeology in recent years, and it is held every year in Shanghai, China. The […]
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Read the review here. Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis & Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press (2019)
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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, […]
Anthropology undergraduates Jana Ambre and Gabriella Garcia were recently elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Congratulations to both!
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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 […]