News Archive
Arts and Sciences Magazine Features UNC Anthropologists
October 21, 2016 Culture anthropologist, Colin West, and biological anthropologist, Amanda Thompson, were featured in the fall issue of Arts and Sciences magazine. For the full story, click here.
Anthropology Department Celebrations
September 26, 2016 The Japan Times published a list of ten important books about Okinawa and Chris Nelson’s book , Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance and Everyday Life inRead more
Department News and Celebrations
August 26, 2016 New Book! Dale Hutchinson’s Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America, is recently out from University Press of Florida. Prize! The Society for theRead more
Anthropology Department Celebrations
April 25, 2016 UNC- CH Faculty Council voted on Friday April 15 to elect Vin Steponaitis as the 45th Secretary of the Faculty, an office that goes back to 1823.Read more
Statement from the Department of Anthropology Faculty Regarding House Bill 2
Updated April 11, 2016 UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-class research university that serves the people of the State of North Carolina by attracting and retaining the very best faculty, staff,Read more
Anthropology Department Celebrations
April 4. 2016 Peter Redfield has been elected to a Hallsworth Visiting Professorship in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities during 2016-2017. Vin Steponaitis, hasRead more
PhD graduate receives LASA/Oxfam American 2016 Diskins Dissertation Award
Diana Gomez Correal was recently awarded the LASA/Oxfam America 2016 Martin Diskin Dissertation Award, an award that recognize the combination of activism and academic work. Diana is currently teaching herRead more
Graduate Students at work- even over Spring Break
Anthropology doctoral students, Lauren Nareau and Hannah Jahnke working during spring break. This photo was taken of two of our graduate students on March 17, 2016 enjoying the weather while grading papers onRead more
Anthropology Department Celebrations
March 22, 2016 Claire Novotny has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor Position at Kenyon College. Ariel Cascio has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Neuroethics Research Unit of theRead more
Dr. Vincas Steponaitis appointed to serve on Smithsonian Institution’s Native American Repatriation Review Committee
March 22, 2016 Dr. Vincas P. Steponaitis, past president of SAA and former chair of the Board of Directors of the Archaeological Conservancy, has been appointed to serve onRead more
IAH Podcast Featuring Glenn Hinson
March 22, 2016 Dr. Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor of Forklore and Anthropology, on Horace Williams And African Vernacular Poetics. See the article and listen to the podcast here.
Anthropology PhD Graduate Laura Wagner Named Archivist of Radio Haiti Project
Dr. Laura Wagner (PhD, 2014), has been officially named the Archivist for the Radio Haiti Project at Duke Library. We offer our congratulations to her on this wonderfulRead more
Collaborative Archaeological Project’s Community Museum in Tahcabo, Mexico Opens
[rev_slider pacoypost] Department of Anthropology Professor Patricia McAnany, Adjunct Professor Ivan Batun, recent PhD graduate Claire Novotny, and graduate student Maia Dedrick, joined residents of Tahcabo, Yucatán, to inaugurateRead more
Anthropology Faculty Members and Graduate Student Awarded Research Grants
[rev_slider facnsf] Faculty members Benjamin Arbuckle, Stephen Davis, Dale Hutchinson, Paul Leslie, and Margaret Scarry and graduate student Mary Morgan-Smith have all received grant awards from the National ScienceRead more
Program Graduate Dr. Laurel Bradley (PhD 2014) Named a 2015-2016 Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Dr. Laurel Bradley has been named a 2015-2016 Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These highly competitive fellowships bring scientists and engineersRead more