Anthropology

Elling Eide Professor Aaron Broadwell and Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky share with readers of Smithsonian Magazine how Indigenous speakers of Timucua in Spanish colonial Florida were actively writing translations of their language in the Roman alphabet taught to them by Spanish ...

In his latest book, Crossing the Current, Professor Richard Kernaghan asks what happens to the lay of landscapes in the Upper Huallaga Valley of Peru once a prolonged period of political and social turbulence has ostensibly passed. Read more "BOOK LAUNCH: ...

Congratulations to Dr. George Aaron Broadwell, the winner of the 2022 Victor Golla Prize from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.  The Victor Golla Prize is presented in recognition of a significant history of ...

Dr. George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), have a new journal article “Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”, which appears in the inaugural edition of The New American Antiquarian. The earliest texts ...

Dr. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their ...

Congratulations, Dr. Aaron Broadwell! Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials, ​an open source textbook on Colonial Valley Zapotec, authored by UF’s George Aaron Broadwell as part of a team of US academics and Zapotec community members (Xóchitl Flores-Marcial, ...

Read more about the award. Read more "Dr. Strong Awarded with Eileen Basker Memorial Prize"

UF’s Explore Magazine features Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield’s incredible work in Tulsa, OK Read more "Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield’s Work Feature in Explore Magazine"

Dr. Gabriel Prieto’s research at Huanchaco/Huanchaquito in Peru has been named one of the top 10 discoveries of the decade by Archaeology Magazine. Read more "Dr. Prieto’s research named one of Top 10 Discoveries of Decade"

Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Read more "Women in Fundamentalism"