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Anthropology Graduate Students Featured as Global Grads

January 29, 2019 First- year PhD students, Parag Jyoti Saikia and Ana Ramirez, were both recently featured on the Graduate Student Diversity page of Global Grads. To see Parag’s profile click here.Read more

Department Celebrations

January 15, 2019 Achievements by our students and student/faculty partnerships: Sugandh Gupta has been awarded the Taraknath Das Foundation Fellowship through Columbia University in support of her doctoral dissertation researchRead more

Three Anthropology Undergrads initiated into Phi Beta Kappa

January 10, 2019 The department of Anthropology celebrated three undergraduate majors initiated into Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the fall semester. Congratulations Abifail Ganez, Kimberly Oliver, andRead more

Anthropology Professor Glenn Hinson Class Feature

January 4, 2019 Through a fall 2018 research-intensive QEP class, students interviewed nine descendants of a 1921 North Carolina lynching victim at the National Museum of African American History andRead more

UNC Graduate Students and Faculty attend AAA Conference

November 26, 2018 Many UNC Anthropology faculty and graduate students traveled to San Jose, CA earlier this month to attend the AAA conference. Professor Florence Babb organized an all UNC-gradRead more

Anthropology Professor James Peacock Honored

November 19, 2018 James Peacock of Chapel Hill is a respected academic whose research has shaped Carolina and the understanding of global relations. He was instrumental in founding World View,Read more

Professor Charles Price lecture at Temple University

November 12, 2018 Anthropology Professor Charles Price is a part of the Dean’s lecture series at Temple University.

Anthropology professor to edit book series

November 6, 2018 A new book series, Bridging Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Well-Being, (University of Florida Press) is being launched under the editorship of Dale Hutchinson (U North Carolina)Read more

Anthropology Professor featured in College of Arts & Sciences magazine

October 29, 2018 Anthropology professor, Dr. Patricia Mcanany and InHerit program director, Dylan Clark’s research work was featured in the College of Arts & Sciences magazine. To find the entireRead more

Department Celebrations!

October 10, 2018 Karla Slocum has started her five-year named professorship, the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy Lorraine Aragon won a Rajkumar Faculty Fellowship from the CarolinaRead more

Summer Research in Peru!

August 10, 2018 Anthropology professor Florence Babb and graduate student Lucia Stavig spent some time doing research in Peru in July.  

Women’s Place in the Andes Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology

August 9, 2018 Anthropology Professor Florence Babb recently had her book published through University of California Press. Find the book and more info here!

Report from the Final Week of Excavation at the UNC Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Field School in Peru

July 31, 2018 Report from the Final Week of Excavation at the UNC Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Field School in Peru Aidan Paul This is the third in a series ofRead more

In the Field with Aidan Paul in Peru – Part 2

July 17, 2018 Report from the Second and Third Weeks of Excavation at the UNC Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Field School in Peru Aidan Paul This is the second in aRead more

Anthropology PhD student helps with UNC Edible Campus

July 12, 2018 Working with plants in the present and the past, Ph.D. candidate Gabby Purcell has split her summer between dissertation research in the lab, and an internship withRead more