September 14, 2022 Department Celebrations: Achievements by our current & former graduate students: Colleen Betti just had an article published: ““They Gave the Children China Dolls”: Toys, Socialization, and Gendered Labor on American Plantations.” Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and … Read more
August 24, 2022 Achievements by our current & former graduate students: Isaura Cruz successfully defended her dissertation and has started as an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University Lucía Stavig (PhD May 2022) accepted a postdoc at the University of … Read more
July 20, 2022 Anthropology Professor Glenn Hinson and his course ANTH 370 is featured on the College of Arts and Sciences website. To read the full article, click here.
May 11, 2022 The department of Anthropology celebrated the class of 2022 on Saturday, May 7. Over 95 students finished their degrees in Anthropology or Medical Anthropology during the academic year. Congratulations to all of our graduates!
April 29, 2022 Students in a hands-on anthropology course piece together ancient ceramics, learn to fire pottery and cook with pots over a fire to study the history of pottery. Read the whole article here.
April 29, 2022 Parag Jyoti Saikia is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology department at UNC. His doctoral project explores the environmental, social and political impacts of an incomplete hydropower in the North-Eastern region India. In Summer 2022, he will … Read more
April 19, 2022 Diane Slocum is the recipient of both a Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Grant from the Institute for the Study of the Americas and a Seed Grant from the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. Both grants will support … Read more
March 1, 2022 When Florence Babb, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, heard about Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), she jumped at the opportunity to enhance her Introduction to Latin American Studies (LTAM 101) … Read more
February 16, 2022 For more than 10 years, the UNC Center for Galápagos Studies has been a hub of collaborative research activity spanning many disciplines, with the potential to impact the globe. Diego Riveros-Iregui and Amanda Thompson, the center’s new … Read more
January 18, 2022 The CAFE special issue More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID-19 is out featuring work from many here at UNC including Professor Caela O’Connell; Anthropology students Rosemary Gay, Sita Tayal, Noreen … Read more
