May 16, 2017 Professor Angela Stuesses’ book, Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Labor in the Deep South, was just selected as the recipient of the C.L.R. James Award for Published Books for Academic or General Audiences for 2017 by the Working-Class Studies … Read more
April 24, 2017 Gabby Purcell received a summer research award from the Center for the Study of the American South for her ” Engaged Archaeology: Cherokee Foodways Past and Present” project. This is in addition to the award that she … Read more
April 10, 2017 Molly Greene was award a Fulbright to support her research on gender, civilc society and climate change in Colombia. Liz Berger has been offered a 2-year post-doc in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of … Read more
March 22, 2017 Undergraduate achievements: The following students will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa this semester: Lin Cao, Amber Fulford, Charles Lumsden and Emily Reckard. Ad Lane (vice-President of SUA) has been awarded a Burch Fellowship to support his … Read more
February 16, 2017 They are cracking the culture codes of consumers and corporations (Intel, Pepsico, Target, Hormel), studying human-machine interactions (driverless cars anyone?), and unlocking the mysteries behind “superspreaders” – the people responsible for accelerating infectious disease epidemics. This week’s … Read more
February 8, 2017 Ian Hodder from Stanford University was a guest in the Archaeology core seminar (ANTH 705) Wednesday morning. The topic of the seminar was materiality studies. The discussion focused on content in Hodder’s new online book, Studies in Human-Thing Entanglement … Read more
January 18, 2017 Recent PhD graduate Orisanmi Burton accepted a tenure track job at American University. Charles Price received an IAH Fellowship for Fall 2017.
December 5, 2016 Bryan Dougan just received the 2016 Royal Air Morocco-ASA Student Travel Award through the African Studies Association. On Monday November 28, 2016, Malena Rousseau successfully defended her dissertation, “Seeking Buen Vivir: Re-imagining Livelihoods in the Shifting Political … Read more
November 14, 2016 New Books: Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca Walker, eds. 2016 Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines, has been published by UNC Press, Social Medicine Series. New projects: Michele Rivkin-Fish received a $94,000 … Read more
November 4, 2016 The Indigenous heritage fall newsletter has been released. Features include InHerit’s newest initiative, introduces the new program director, and so much more! Find the full newsletter by clicking here.
