May 10, 2024 Congratulations to University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology 2024 Student Award winners Jackson Plemmons, Rosemary Gay, Julio Villa-Palomino, Anusha Hariharan, and Ann Suk!   The Honigmann Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award – Jackson Plemmons The committee … Read more

February 14, 2024 David Wengrow, professor of comparative archaeology at University College London gave a lecture as part of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series in early February. The event, held in Hyde Hall, ended a two-day campus … Read more

January 26, 2024 Congratulations Lorraine Aragon, Dale Hutchinson, Don Nonini, John Scarry, Margie Scarry, Sandy Smith-Nonini, and Laurie Steponaitis, our 2024 faculty retirees! The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology celebrated the group at a Faculty Retirement Party held on January … Read more

November 22, 2023 University of North Carolina Anthropologist and Associate Professor, Michele Rivkin-Fish, PhD, was recently cited in an ABCNews article for her expertise on the conditions of Russian abortion clinics and the government’s increasingly pro-natalist policies. The article, titled “From … Read more