Anthropology

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 ...

More info available at this URL: https://ufliberalartsandsciences.exposure.co/transformative-topographies Read more "Dr. Kernaghan Received ACLA Fellowship for Book Project"

  Visual Anthropology Showcase The Anthropology Department held a Visual Anthropology Showcase Thursday night. Nearly 60 people attended the event which featured selected films and photo essays completed by undergraduates in ANT 3390 Visual Anthropology (taught by Chris LeClere) and ongoing projects from ...

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 Read more "Graduate Student Research Featured in Scientific American"

  Research Feature 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  2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow Tuesday, 18 April – 12:00 – 1:00 Walker Hall 200 Jerusalem 1905: Urban History in the Digital Age Michelle Campos (Department of History) This ...

  GSC Travel Grants The UF Graduate Student Council (GSC) is now accepting travel grant applications for travel that begins on the following dates:(1) Domestic travel beginning June 15 – July 22(2) International travel beginning July 1 – July 22The application and further ...

Screening of “La Piedra Austente” (“The Absent Stone”) The Crime, Law, and Governance in the Americas Working Group is excited to announce an upcoming event! Screening of “La Piedra Austente” (“The Absent Stone”) followed by a Q&A session with director, Sandra Rozental Date: ...

The Search Committee for the Director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory will be meeting on Tuesday, March 28 from 2:00-3:00pm in TUR 1208.  Questions or comments in advance of the meeting may be directed to Ms. Patricia King (aok@ufl.edu) ...

  46th Annual Charles H. Fairbanks Armadillo Roast Hosted by the Florida Anthropological Student Association within the Department of Anthropology at UF – Funds raised from the Roast are awarded to dissertation students in their final year towards the completion of their ...

Armadillo Roast SAVE THE DATE March 25 (Dr.s Brenner and Milbraths house) (See event on calendar) Relics and Reliquaries: A Matter of Life and Death Please join us for Prof. Hahn’s public lecture as part of the 2016-17 HESCAH series and the Death: Confronting the ...

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SHIFTING CONTOURS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN COLONIAL CONTEXTS  Professor Michael S. Nassaney Department of Anthropology Western Michigan University Narratives about the past are never divorced from the social contexts in which they are created. Colonial contexts have been especially subject to political influence when ...

The department will be showing “The Anthropologist” to coincide with a visit by Dr. Susie Crate.  The film explores climate change (and more broadly, social change) as it is affecting different parts of the world, such as the Andes, Siberia, and Pacific ...

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Teaching Award Congratulations to Marit Ostebo.  She received the 2016-2017 College Teaching Award. Call for GoodLife Applicants — Summer B and Fall 2017 This is a reminder that Monday, January 30 is the deadline for submitting applications to teach Good Life for Summer ...

Article here Read more "Dr. John Richard Stepp’s interviews with La Razón, on President Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border"

Message from the Chair: We received news late yesterday that Polly Doughty passed away early yesterday morning.  Most of you knew Polly, wife of emeritus faculty member and former chair Paul Doughty.  The Doughtys have been strong supporters of the department ...

Notice of CAPHIL Director Search Committee Meeting The Search Committee for the new Director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory will be meeting on Thursday, Jan 19, from 1:00-2:00pm in TUR 1208.  Questions or comments in advance of the meeting ...

LOOKING FOR OTHER MODELS: WHAT THE U.S. CAN LEARN FROM AUSTRALIAN POLITICS  The first Fulbright event of the Spring with guest speaker Dr. Carol Weissert, Director of the LeRoy Collins Institute at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at ...

The interview discussed Haiti, humanitarian aid, and development. Please see the link below to read the full article. http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2017/01/a-conversation-about-haiti-and-a-new-era-of-aid-and-development/ Read more "Dr. Murray Interviewed for Humanosphere"