News Archive
MA Anthropology Graduate Featured for Unique Thesis
December 1, 2020 When Jordan Davis graduates this December from Carolina with a master’s degree in anthropology, he will leave having written the first academic thesis on contemporary battle rap.Read more
Department Celebrations
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 andRead more
Join us for UNC Anthropology virtual event – November 12
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,Read more
Anthropology Human Bio Lab Celebrates UNC Research Week
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! Read more
Department Celebrations
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 AmericasRead more
Professor Benjamin Arbuckle in Science Magazine
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
Department Celebrations
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 identityRead more
Graduate Students Earn AAA Awards
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 Read more
Anthropology Graduate Student, Vaia Signounas, featured in UNC’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies article
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 cameRead more
Caela O’Connell, Environmental Anthropologist, research feature
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 thisRead more
Professor Karla Slocum Article
Anthropology professor Karla Slocum recently had an article published – to read her piece “Black Towns and The Freedom to Breathe”, click here.
Their lives Matter
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 precariousRead more
UNC-CH Anthropology Class of 2020!
UNC Graduate Recognition Celebration!
Animals that Fueled the World
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.
Department Celebrations
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,”Read more