Anthropology

University of Florida Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Digital Anthropology The University of Florida (UF) Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications from cultural and linguistic anthropologists for a nine‐month, tenure‐ accruing position at the rank ...

Biological Anthropology with specialization in Primatology The Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-accruing position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2019. We seek a ...

University of Florida Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Latin American Archaeology The University of Florida (UF), Department of Anthropology invites applications for a full-time, tenuretrack position in Latin American Archaeology at the level of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date ...

Dr. de France, Dr. Heckenberger, and Dr. Johnson have been recently interviewed for the departmental Youtube. Watch their interviews here. Read more "UF Anthropology Faculty Interviewed on Youtube"

Today, October 5, is National Get Funky Day! National Get Funky Day was started in St Augustine, following Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and it has been observed annually since October 5, 2017.   How does one observe National Get Funky ...

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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 ...

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Hi All, Because it is Friday, it is a day to link that lovable classic!  (But remember, bagpipes make everything better). Seriously, though: some news and notes from around the department:   What are the Faculty Up To? I sometimes wonder that myself, and when I do, I go ...

Greetings all! It’s the end of another week!  Here are some news and notes:   Faculty News: I’m really enjoying making these kinds of announcements:  Congratulations to Valerie De Leon, who was just awarded National Science Foundation Grant to study Cranial Base Development ...

Greetings all,   Some News and Notes in and around the Department this week:   NSF Program Officer to Visit UF I am pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Mantz, the Program Officer for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, will be coming to UF ...

Congratulations Dr. Peter Schmidt Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies Perspectives from Africa Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, University of Florida, USA African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies emerge center stage in this book, with case studies vividly illustrating that local ...

Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Purdy Penetrating the Darkness of Time is about cultural milestones and the origins of the use of materials by ancient humans that led to the world we live in today. The book is written for the general ...

Penetrating the Darkness of Time is about cultural milestones and the origins of the use of materials by ancient humans that led to the world we live in today. The book is written for the general public. It is interdisciplinary, ...

Dr. Aaron Broadwell Featured in the Member Spotlight this Month at the Linguistic Society of America: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/june-2018-member-spotlight-aaron-broadwell​ Read more "Dr. Broadwell Featured in Member Spotlight at Linguistic Society of America"

Additional Items of Interest AfAA Student Paper Awards Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) sponsors the annual Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award. The prize is awarded to the best graduate student essay in Africanist anthropology. Contributions from ...

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 Mustapha Josefina Vasquez   Safe travels to all that are conducting research this summer, and we look ...

An article Dr. Stepp co-authored with a team out of Duke Univ. (“Are the Ghosts of Nature’s Past Haunting Ecology Today?”) was published in Current Biology on Monday and has been getting a lot of media coverage. See links below to ...

Upcoming Events Please join us (and share widely) for the following workshops: Wednesday, May 9, 1-3 pm Introduction to 3D Technologies and Augmented Reality<http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/news#20180430> Marston Science Library, Rm L136 Workshop created and hosted by graduate students Brittany Mistretta and Francisco Morales Wednesday, May 16, 1-2 ...