“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 […]

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.).”

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 […]

Myles Sullivan featured on Florida Frontiers

PhD student Myles Sullivan recently published an article “Amateur Minstrel Shows and Blackface Amusements at the University of Florida in the Jim Crow Era” in the Florida Historical Quarterly (vol. 99, no. 3&4). His research focused on a series of annual blackface minstrel shows at the University of Florida between 1914 and 1920 through digitized […]

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, […]

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