The George A. Smathers Library cordially invites you to the Michael Gannon Lecture on Tuesday, April 1st, from 4:00-5:00 p.m in the historic Smathers Library, featuring linguistic anthropologist George Aaron Broadwell, Ph.D., the Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology at University of Florida.
Karen Jones’ service to the University of Florida’s Anthropology Department has been immeasurable. Her well-deserved award demonstrates how critical she is and has been to the department and the larger university as a whole. We could not be more excited and happy for her.
Read more "Karen Jones received a Superior Accomplishment Award!"
Friends of Florida Anthropology Fund
The Anthropology department depends on donations to support its mission to provide undergraduate and graduate learning, scholarships, and experiential opportunities. Our general fund provides for a wide variety of department initiatives, including student recruitment and program building. Thanks for your support!
As one of the top research institutions in the country, UF prides itself in supporting the efforts of undergraduate research initiatives. You should too by attending the Anthropology Honors Thesis Slam!
We are proud to celebrate our hard working anthropology undergraduates . The following students have had their ingenuity, service, research, and ambition recognized with awards from throughout the university:
UF archaeologists study how “In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty”.
Read more "Fort Mose: Black militia, forced migrations and resistance."
This summer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Jacksonville had the opportunity to provide an internship experience to Ph.D. candidate Belay Alem in support of the organization’s work in the area of heirs’ property. Read the full feature here.
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.
Read more "Aaron Broadwell’s research featured in Smithsonian Magazine"
Thrilled to see our undergraduates presenting their research on April 4th at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Center for Undergraduate Research in the O’Connell Center. This event provides a public platform for undergraduate students to present the findings of their research and importantly includes students from across campus. It was great to […]
Congratulations to 12 outstanding undergraduate majors who conducted research under the mentorship of Anthropology faculty and presented the results of their efforts at the annual Honors Thesis Slam