Anthropology

This summer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Jacksonville had the opportunity to provide an internship experience to Ph.D. candidate Belay Alem in support of the organization’s work in the area of heirs’ property. Read the full feature here. Read more "Belay Alem Investigates ...

Thrilled to see our undergraduates presenting their research on April 4th at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Center for Undergraduate Research in the O’Connell Center. This event provides a public platform for undergraduate students to present the ...

Congratulations to 12 outstanding undergraduate majors who conducted research under the mentorship of Anthropology faculty and presented the results of their efforts at the annual Honors Thesis Slam Read more "Honors Thesis Slam 2023"

With the support of faculty mentors, nine Anthropology undergraduate majors garner funding for research projects spanning the breadth of the discipline. Read more "Anthropology Undergraduates Awarded Research Funding"

Ph.D. Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Materiality and Historical Ecology of Earth Mounds: The Colina da Monte Site (India Muerta Wetlands, ...

Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bartz was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in the American Southeast: Organic Residue Analysis of Stalling Period Pottery of the Middle Savannah River Valley.” Emily’s research employs organic ...

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!"

PhD student Myles Sullivan recently published an article “Amateur Minstrel Shows and Blackface Amusements at the University of Florida in the Jim Crow Era” in the Florida Historical Quarterly (vol. 99, no. 3&4). His research focused on a series of ...

Graduate student Megan Hanna Fry receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) grant in Spring 2020. She shares a few of her thoughts below: “I joined the department in the fall of 2018, working with Dr. John Krigbaum and Dr. James ...

Dr. Muligan’s lab featured in UF News press release for their PLOS ONE paper about Syrian refugee study. https://news.ufl.edu/2019/07/how-genes-resilience-affect-syrian-refugee-stress/ Read more "Dr. Mulligan’s Lab Featured in UF News Press Release for Research and Publication"

Congratulations to UF Anthropology graduate students Cady Gonzalez, Megan Cogburn, Christine LeJeune, and Mohammed Mustapha! All received the 2019 UF International Center Office for Global Research Engagement Research Award for Graduate Students. Read more "Congratulations to UF Anthropology RAD Awardees!"

See details here: Call for Entries for Undergrad Video Contest Make a video explaining either why anthropology is an important major or what you love about anthropology at the University of Florida, and you could win $50 and have your video shown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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"

Doctoral student Ashley Sharpe featured in UF News for her research. http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/11/old-teeth-new-stories.php Read more "Anthropology Grad Featured in UF News"

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 ...

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 ...