Spring 2024 Undergraduate Awards
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:
Fort Mose: Black militia, forced migrations and resistance.
UF archaeologists study how “In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty”.
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Belay Alem Investigates Heirs’ Property
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 […]
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 […]
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Undergraduate Research Symposium 2023
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 […]
Honors Thesis Slam 2023
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
Anthropology Undergraduates Awarded Research Funding
With the support of faculty mentors, nine Anthropology undergraduate majors garner funding for research projects spanning the breadth of the discipline.
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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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PhD Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral Awarded NSF DDRIG
Ph.D. Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Materiality and Historical Ecology of […]
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PhD Candidate Emily Bartz Awarded NSF DDRIG
Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bartz was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in the American Southeast: Organic Residue Analysis of Stalling Period […]