Randee Fladeboe is featured in Scientific American for her PhD research on macaws. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prehistoric-americans-may-have-farmed-macaws-in-feather-factories/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share
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Doctoral student Ashley Sharpe featured in UF News for her research. http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/11/old-teeth-new-stories.php
New Chair The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris McCarty will be serving as the next chair of our department beginning August 16th, 2016, with a term extending three years until August 2019. Dr. McCarty has an extensive background in cultural anthropology, collaborative research, and administrative processes through his various appointments […]
Summer Graduations Ph.D.’s were awarded to Ellen Lofaro and Abiyot Seifu. Congratulations to both of you! Job Placement Dr. Ellen Lofaro has accepted a position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as Curator of Collections. Ashley Sharpe (who will graduate in Fall 2016) has accepted a position at STRI, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Allysha […]
Connie Mulligan was elected as VP/President-elect of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics at the AAPA meetings Myrian Barboza was selected as the recipient of a Ruth McQuown Scholarship Supplementary Award for a graduate student at the University of Florida
Students, as you venture off into the field please take field selfies and send them to the department. Creative lab or writing selfies are also appreciated for those of you who are not traveling to exotic locales.
Congratulations to the following new Ph.D.s and MA students: Ph.D. Kristina Altes Carrie Brown Jessica-Jean Casler M.A. Megan Cogburn Ed Haning Jessica Jenkins Taylor Polvadore Riley Ravary Sydney Roberson
Find out what great things are happening with our students! Updates for Serenela Pelier, Justin Hosbey, Lisa Duffy, Meggan Blessing, and Scott Macrae. Serenela Pelier has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! She plans to complete a preliminary study of the isotopes of Florida panthers and then conduct dissertation research on the provenance of […]
Justin Hosbey was selected to attend the NEH ODH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice for Africana Studies at Purdue University (Summer 2016). Ayllsha Winburn has made it to the final round of the UF “3-Minute Thesis” […]
Anthropology alumni Drs. Laurel Freas and Paul Emanovsky both passed the Board Examination for the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in February at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting. They join a list of 114 forensic anthropologists who have been awarded Diplomate status by the ABFA since 1978. Also, former C.A. Pound Lab Coordinators […]