Anthropology

John Krigbaum and Ken Sassaman accompanied UF Professor Mike Heckenberger to a three-day ceremony honoring deceased members of a regional community he has worked with for 30 years. Read more "UF Faculty travel to Xingu with Heckenberger for kuarup ceremony"

Dr. Purdy is Professor Emerita of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida (UF), and she is Curator Emerita in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville. Read more "Dr. Barbara A. Purdy receives prestigious Lifetime ...

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. ...

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 Read more "Anthro’s Latest CLAS and University Scholars!"

  Learn about the award. Read more "Dr. Aaron Broadwell’s Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials awarded best of 2020-2021"

Dr. Adrienne Strong’s new book, Documenting Death has been awarded the 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology.  The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a significant contributions to scholarship on gender and health by a scholar (or scholars) ...

Congratulations to Drs. Catherine Tucker, Marit Østebø, and Pete Collings were recently named 2021-2024 Term Professors.  These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their ...

Dr. Gravlee has been named an Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor for the academic year 2021-2022.  The Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professorships are made possible by a generous contribution from Ms. Dunlevie, a UF graduate.  The goal of the ...

Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborators  were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. Dr. Broadwell collaborates with Zapotec speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico ...

Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Valley Zapotec, won an award for best digital humanities blog in 2020.  Dr. George Aaron Broadwell is one of the founders of Ticha, which is a collaborative project between linguists, historians, and Zapotec people to make historical texts in ...

Congratulations, Rose! Read more "Ph.D. Student Rose Bryson was selected as a recipient of the 2020-2021 Graduate Student Teaching Award"

Ph.D. Student Max Van Oostenburg was recently awarded an NSF DDRG for his project, “Cultural Meaning, Morality, and Outdoor Recreation in the Anthropocene.”  Congratulations, Max! Read more "Ph.D. Student Max Van Oostenburg awarded NSF DDRG"

Ph.D. Student Isis Dwyer was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to support her studies of cranial variation, forensic ancestry estimation, & self identity in the Afro-Caribbean. Ford Fellowship Awards provide three years of support and are made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise ...

Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma  Dean David Richardson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosted a panel discussion titled, “Toward Antiracism: Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Healing Racial Trauma,” on November 12 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. ...

More about this book: “Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne ...

Hello everyone! There will be a series of Coffee Talk panels with UF Anthropology graduate students next week so that undergrads can ask questions about their research, experiences in graduate school, and the grad school application process. The panels are ...

More about this book: “Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, the fundamentalist offshoots of these religions subject women to myriad restrictions in ...

Hi Everyone! Here’s a couple of items for the week: Requiring ANT 3451, Race and Racism As many of you know, a petition is circulating to replace the required What is the Good Life? course with ANT 3451, Race and Racism.  As of ...

Hi Everyone! It’s a bit slow, news-wise, around these parts.  But there are a few items: Publications and Awards Megan Cogburn just published an article in Social Science and Medicine, “Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania: On the push for numbers ...

I hope everyone is enjoying the end of the semester.  As we disperse to a different part of the our house or apartment for the summer, here are few items:   Chris LeClere’s research on coffee houses has been featured in the ...