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 Earth Mounds: The Colina da Monte Site (India Muerta Wetlands, Uruguary).” Rocío’s research examines how and why mid-to late-Holocene societies in southeast Uruguay carried out […]
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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 Pottery of the Middle Savannah River Valley.” Emily’s research employs organic residue analysis (ORA) to chemically analyze the resources processed within North America’s earliest pottery […]
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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Ph.D. Candidate Jordi Rivera Prince Awarded 2022 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant
Ph.D. Candidate Jordi Rivera Prince was awarded the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her project “Power in the Hands of Many: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Study Social Inequality in the Ancient Andes, North Coast of Peru (400-200 cal. B.C.).”
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Anthro’s Latest CLAS and University Scholars!
Congratulations to our Department’s latest Undergraduate Scholars! CLAS Scholars Program Awards: Maximillion Alegria Graylin Skates University Scholars Program Awards: Cathryn Allen Gabrielle Ray Drew McNally Daniel Ponciano Diaz Mai-Brie Conklin
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 […]