November 9, 2020 Celebrations Further achievements by our graduate students: Gracie Riehm has received the Charles Hudson Award from the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Jordan Davis passed his MA defense and has accepted a position in college admissions at the University … Read more
Greetings from UNC Anthropology! We hope this email finds you and your family doing well during this unparalleled time. Although it is a beautiful fall in Chapel Hill, the spring, summer and now fall semester will be a time in … Read more
October 21, 2020 Current and former UNC Anthropology students share their stories of the Human Biology Lab in the Anthropology department. Click below to see each of their stories! Jordyn Carrier Zach Cochran Bio Lab Flyer
October 13, 2020 Moriah James, and her research was featured: https://magazine.college.unc.edu/news-article/southern-futures-james/ Dayuma Alban has been awarded a 2020 Dissertation Completion Award from the Institute for the Study of the Americas for her project Gender Dynamics and Oil Extraction in the … Read more
September 21, 2020 Dr. Benjamin Arbuckle’s article on horse domestication was mentioned in Science Magazine – https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6510/twis?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2020-0917&et_rid=34804710&et_cid=3485261 To read the whole paper, click here
Further achievements by our graduate students: Bryan Dougan and his coauthors have published a new, open access paper entitled: “Looking at Myself in the Future”: how mentoring shapes scientific identity for STEM students from underrepresented groups.” It can be found … Read more
Two Anthropology graduate students have earned awards from the American Anthropology Association. Carole H Browner Latin American Studies Fellowship Fund for Travel – Julio Villa Palomino Minority Dissertation Fellowship – Ampson Hagan Congratulations Ampson and Julio!!
After graduating from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Vaia Sigounas trained as a surgeon and became increasingly aware of the limitations and possibilities of biomedicine. She came back to UNC to get a PhD in medical anthropology … Read more
What a world in crisis can learn from disaster-struck communities How will COVID-19 affect the already vulnerable coastal communities preparing for the 2020 hurricane season? Environmental anthropologist Caela O’Connell unwraps this question in her new research project. Click here for the … Read more
Anthropology professor Karla Slocum recently had an article published – to read her piece “Black Towns and The Freedom to Breathe”, click here.
