Congrats to Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awardees Netty Carey, Megan Cogburn, and Cady Gonzalez

Congratulations to the three most recent recipients of Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad awards: Netty Carey will be studying “Precarious Property on Ghana’s Eroding Coast.” Megan Cogburn’s study is entitled “Pushing Institutional Deliveries: An Ethnography of Childbirth Care in Rural Tanzania” Cady Gonzalez will investigate “Hospitality in International Development: The case of Coffee and Sanitation in […]

Your family can make your blood boil – literally! Grad Student Kia Fuller and UF Faculty publish article using a biocultural framework to investigate blood pressure variation in African Americans

African Americans have significantly higher rates of hypertension than other racial groups and suffer from more serious negative outcomes associated with the disease. We investigate the sociocultural and biological factors that influence hypertension in African Americans, a group that is underrepresented in research, in Tallahassee, FL. Novel integration of both genetic and social network data […]

2018 Department of Anthropology Research Award Winners Announced

Amaya-Burns Award Macarena Moraga Doughty Research Award Amanda Brock Aja Cacan Oswaldo Medina-Ramirez Riley Ravary Nolan Ruark Sarah Staub Fairbanks Award Jorge Garcia Nathan Lawres Ginessa Mahar Goggin Award Daniel Barroca Randee Fladeboe Taylor Polvadore Maples Award Janet Finlayson Waggoner Grants-in-Aid Aaron Ellrich Jamie Fuller Simon Goldstone Brittany Mistretta Mohammed […]

Michala Stock presented Forensic Anthropology Student Paper Award

Congratulations to Michala Stock who won the 2017 J. Lawrence Angel Award, a Forensic Anthropology Student Paper Award, for her paper titled Growth and Development of Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Human Skull. Michala was presented with the award last week at the AAFS meetings.

Fall Graduate Student Poster Competition Winners

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the department’s Fall Graduate Student Poster Competition as selected by popular vote at the department Holiday Party on December 6th. The first place prize of $700 goes to Myrian Barboza for her poster entitled “It’s From My Grandmother’s Time, When There Was No Shifting Cultivation”: Historical […]

Grad Student work featured in Archaeology Magazine

Full article here: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/263-1707/from-the-trenches/5628-trenches-new-mexico-ancestral-pueblo-macaws

Pound Lab working with Florida Museum to Study Shark Bites

https://ufliberalartsandsciences.exposure.co/bones-got-bite-pt-1 https://ufliberalartsandsciences.exposure.co/bones-got-bite-pt-3

Grad Student Publication

Deb Andrews recently published in Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 06/2017, Volume 39, Issue 1 Article Book Review

Friday Bulletin May 12, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES – SPRING 2017 PhD: Carey, Mia Infante, Felipe Kolpan, Kate Macrae, Scott Salazar, Carola MA: Carey, Elizabeth (Netty) Gonzalez, Cady Hagos, Werede Masanga Maisha, Felicien McDaniel, Kevin Muzyczka, Kelly Striepe, Nicole Summer 2017 – UF Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review Opportunity Make this the summer that you plan ahead for your fall […]

2017 Department Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the 2017 Department Award Winners! John M. Goggin Award: Myrian Barboza, Elise Geissler, Jandy Gu, and Susan Lad William R. Maples Award: Michala Stock Amaya-Burns Award: Iliana Villegas James C. Waggoner Grant-in-Aid: Nicolas Delsol, Nathan Lawres, Megan LeBlanc, Taylor Polvadore and Sarah Zaleski We wish all of the winners […]

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