Anthropologist Angela Stuesse has researched the poultry and meat processing plants for years. With over 1,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in these plants in NC, Stuesse notes the already precarious positions the workers are in. Read more: https://unc.live/3g5gwLn
April 16, 2020 This reading delves into the experiences of two of our researchers, Benjamin Arbuckle and Heather Lapham, within their field of zooarchaeology. To read more, click here.
April 6, 2020 Further achievements by our graduate students: · Maja Jeranko received a fellowship for her project, “Building Equitable Futures: A Photovoice Study of Gender in Post-Earthquake Coastal Ecuador,” which she will complete in partnership with A Mano Manaba … Read more
April 1, 2020 Congratulations to Anthropology graduate students Maja Jeranko and Rachel Wilbur for recently receiving the community engagement fellowships! Maja Jeranko received a fellowship for her project, “Building Equitable Futures: A Photovoice Study of Gender in Post-Earthquake Coastal Ecuador,” which she will complete … Read more
March 4, 2020 Professor Donald M. Nonini and Ida Susser published The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux. Achsah Dorsey has accepted a tenure-track position in the Anthropology Dept at U Mass-Amherst Vaia Sigounas has received a … Read more
Anthropology professor Angela Stuesse was recently featured in the New York Times for her work. The title of her article is “After ICE Raids, a Reckoning in Mississippi’s Chicken Country” and can be read here.
December 19, 2019 Julia Shankin of Raleigh, North Carolina, will study through National Taiwan University. She is an anthropology and global studies double major. To read more, click here.
We are proud to spotlight a very distinguished alumnus, Jarrett Barnhill, who grew up in rural, eastern North Carolina amidst tobacco fields. Dr. Barnhill received an undergraduate degree in Anthropology in 1971. He attended medical school at the Bowman Gray … Read more
