Anthropology

Greetings to our anthropology family.  Attached is the 3rd issue of the Anthropolibrary Newsletter.  In it are many tidbits and alerts of new resources and recurring services provided by the George A. Smathers Libraries at UF that you might not ...

Deadline Alerts  Faculty:  CLAS Travel Application Request – Wednesday, August 31st before 4pm.  Applications should be given to Pat. Graduate Students:  CLAS Travel Application Request – Wednesday, August 31st before 4pm.  Applications should be given to Nita. Graduate Students:  Spring Assistantship Applications – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please follow the link to view the obituary for Dr. Moore.  Read more "Obituary for Dr. Moore"

Dr. John Moore was a professor of anthropology and also served as Chair of UF Anthropology from 1993-1998 and as the Graduate Coordinator from 2001-2003. His own research specialized in North American Indian ethnology, kinship, demography, and social evolution. His ...

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 ...

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 Read more ...

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.  Read more "Call for Field Photos"

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 Read more "Graduate Student News"

This week UF CLAS IT and UF Department of Anthropology teamed up to offer a faculty website workshop. Read more "Faculty Website Workshop"

Dr. Dave Daegling has been named one of 34 University of Florida Research Foundation Professors for 2016-2019.  The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead ...

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 ...

Two alums of the program, Ryan Williams and Donna Nash, recently recorded a radio interview on the Cerro Baúl  excavations. http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/concocting-modern-day-cicha-de-molle/ Read more "Alumni Spotlight: Radio Interview with Ryan Williams and Donna Nash"

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wonder how dynamic the discipline of anthropology is? Check out the AAA Blog to see some of the interesting ways anthropology is applied in business. Read more "AAA Blog on the Role of Anthropology in Business"

Please view the graduate funding opportunity page for information on how to apply to this scholarship and others. Application available here.    Read more "Ruegamer Scholarship Deadline April 15, 2016"

Dr. Angela Stuesse, an alumni of the anthropology department just released her first book: Scratching Out A Living-Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South. You can view her website for the book here: http://www.angelastuesse.com/. Dr. Stuesse received her BA in Anthropology from ...

Now in its fourth year, the Ethnographic Field School (EFS) is a five-week (July 1- August 6) course for graduate students in cultural anthropology. The focus of the EFS is qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection in the context of participatory ...