Vincent Joos has been awarded the Thompson Writing Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship — a five year post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University. Congratulations Vincent!

Chosen from among 200 applicants, Ashley Peles has won a place in the Institute for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Their meetings which will more deeply develop skill and practice in … Read more

  Wired Magazine has featured Dr. Silvia Tomášková in an article entitled We Need to Stop Ignoring Women Scientists.  The article reports on Tomášková’s own efforts to raise her student’s consciousness when it comes to contemporary women scientists’ work.

Anthropologist Dr. Catherine Besteman of Colby College will visit UNC at Chapel Hill for two major events.  On Tuesday, April 7th at 12:30 PM in Room 4003 of the FedEx Global Education Center, Dr. Besteman will present “Somalia’s Global Civil … Read more

Using a site preservation grant from the AIA and as members of the Proyecto Arqueologíco Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán, Patricia McAnany and Sarah Rowe are working with Ivan Batún of the State Archives of the Yucatan on a collaborative archaeology project in Tahcabo focused … Read more

The Department of Anthropology congratulates our undergraduate majors and minors named among Phi Beta Kappa’s Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 initiates! Majors *Arthur Cade Barefoot *Nicole Davis *Madeline McCleary Gillon *Corinne Celeste Goudreault *Nicholas Li-wen Hatcher *Jane Parker Jacobson *Carson Elizabeth … Read more

Statement of Solidarity March 1, 2015 Dear Carolina Community, We, the undersigned, are faculty in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill who would like to voice our strong support for the efforts of the Real Silent Sam Coalition. … Read more

Diana Gomez Correal will be presenting and discussing Weaving Another Way:  Feminism, Epistemology and Decolonial Projects in Abya Yala on Saturday, February 14th, 2015 from 3:45 – 5:15 PM.  Diana, a PhD candidate in the Anthropology department, co-edited the book … Read more

  The Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA) has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 C. Felix Harvey Award for Institutional Priorities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The honor comes with a $50,000 cash award … Read more

Professor Steven Salaita, Palestinian American author and scholar, will be speaking at UNC-CH about academic freedom, uncivil speech and uncivil acts, and censorship.  The event will be held on Thursday, February 5th at 7:30 PM in the University Room of … Read more