New Speaker Series Wednesday November 13th!
The UF Anthropology Department and Cypress & Grove Brewing Co. present the inaugural Stories From the Field event!
Whittaker Schroder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dr. Whittaker Schroder Department of Anthropology Office: Turlington Hall, Room B129 Phone: (352) 294-6396 Email: wschroder@ufl.edu Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays 2-3:30 pm Thursdays 1-2:30 pm Education Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania B.A. Brown University Research Interests Landscape archaeology, historical and political ecology, sociopolitical organization, resilience and sustainability, household archaeology, remote sensing, cultural heritage, […]
Aaron Broadwell’s research featured in Smithsonian Magazine
Elling Eide Professor Aaron Broadwell and Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky share with readers of Smithsonian Magazine how Indigenous speakers of Timucua in Spanish colonial Florida were actively writing translations of their language in the Roman alphabet taught to them by Spanish missionaries. Read the full story here.
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BOOK LAUNCH: Crossing the Current: Aftermaths of War along the Huallaga River
In his latest book, Crossing the Current, Professor Richard Kernaghan asks what happens to the lay of landscapes in the Upper Huallaga Valley of Peru once a prolonged period of political and social turbulence has ostensibly passed.
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Dr. George Aaron Broadwell wins 2022 Victor Golla Prize
Congratulations to Dr. George Aaron Broadwell, the winner of the 2022 Victor Golla Prize from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. The Victor Golla Prize is presented in recognition of a significant history of both linguistic scholarship and service to the scholarly community, with service that expands the quality […]
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“Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”
Dr. George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), have a new journal article “Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”, which appears in the inaugural edition of The New American Antiquarian. The earliest texts from Florida come from a corpus of Timucua language materials published between 1612 and […]
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UF Faculty travel to Xingu with Heckenberger for kuarup ceremony
John Krigbaum and Ken Sassaman accompanied UF Professor Mike Heckenberger to a three-day ceremony honoring deceased members of a regional community he has worked with for 30 years.
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Fatty Red Flowers for Red-Tailed Monkeys
Dr. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their regular diets, each spring magnificent bright red flower displays from S. globulifera, a tree that […]
Congrats, Dr. Aaron Broadwell! Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials awarded best of 2020-2021
Congratulations, Dr. Aaron Broadwell! Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials, an open source textbook on Colonial Valley Zapotec, authored by UF’s George Aaron Broadwell as part of a team of US academics and Zapotec community members (Xóchitl Flores-Marcial, Moisés García Guzmán, Felipe H. Lopez, George Aaron Broadwell, Alejandra Dubcovsky, May Helena Plumb, […]