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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Graduate student Megan Hanna Fry receives NSF award

Graduate student Megan Hanna Fry receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) grant in Spring 2020. She shares a few of her thoughts below: “I joined the department in the fall of 2018, working with Dr. John Krigbaum and Dr. James Davidson focusing in bioarchaeology. I received my B.A. from the University of Cincinnati, and […]

Dr. Mulligan’s Lab Featured in UF News Press Release for Research and Publication

Dr. Muligan’s lab featured in UF News press release for their PLOS ONE paper about Syrian refugee study. https://news.ufl.edu/2019/07/how-genes-resilience-affect-syrian-refugee-stress/

Grad Student Molly Selba Interviewed by Nat Geo

UF Anthropology graduate student, Molly Selba, was interviewed by Nat Geo on her recently published dog research. Read the interview here.

Congratulations to UF Anthropology RAD Awardees!

Congratulations to UF Anthropology graduate students Cady Gonzalez, Megan Cogburn, Christine LeJeune, and Mohammed Mustapha! All received the 2019 UF International Center Office for Global Research Engagement Research Award for Graduate Students.

Undergraduate Video Competition

See details here: Call for Entries for Undergrad Video Contest Make a video explaining either why anthropology is an important major or what you love about anthropology at the University of Florida, and you could win $50 and have your video shown on the department’s social media accounts. Videos should be less than two minutes […]

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