News Archive
Department Celebrates Graduate Student Achievements
March 26, 2018 We are celebrating the Anthropology Graduate Students who will be recognized at this years Graduate Student Recognition Celebration on April 5! Prestigious External Fellowship Awardees DayumaRead more
Department Celebrations!
March 2, 2018 Elisabeth Kago Nebie, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, has been offered a two-year Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Heather Lapham (RLA Research Archaeologist) has beenRead more
Graduate Student Dawn Rivers Receives Halperin Award
February 28, 2018 Anthropology graduate student, Dawn Rivers, was recently awarded the Halperin Memorial pre-doctoral travel fellowship for her project “Self-Employment in Post-Industrial Capitalist Economies”. This fellowship will allow Dawn toRead more
Graduate Student Geoffrey Hughes Named Dean’s Graduate Fellows
February 26, 2018 Anthropology graduate student, Geoffrey Hughes, was recently named a Dean’s Graduate Fellow. This fellowship is made possible by an endowment funded by generous gifts from many CarolinaRead more
Anthropology Career Workshop, Wed Feb 28th, 5:30-6:30pm
February 22, 2018 Working in concert with the Society of Undergraduate Anthropologists (SUA), the Anthropology department is hosting the third installment of its Career Workshop Series, on Wednesday, February 28th,Read more
Professor Charles Price hosted as Guest Speaker at DePaul University
February 13, 2018 Anthropology professor Dr. Charles Price was invited to DePaul University by the Center for Religion Culture and Community to give a talk about his work regarding Ethnogenesis and Jamaica’s Rastafari.Read more
Department Fellowships and Grants
February 12, 2018 Geoffrey Hughes has been selected as one of 24 Dean’s Graduate Fellows for 2018-19. Geoff will receive a one-year $4,000 top-up and a $1,000 summer stipend forRead more
Anthropology Professor Florence Babb June Book Release
February 9, 2018 Florence Babb’s book based on her longtime research in Peru, Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology, is in page proofs and will come outRead more
Professor Dale Hutchinson Receives Choice book Award
January 31, 2018 Professor Dale Hutchinson’s latest book, Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America, has received a 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. According to Choice, booksRead more
Professor Emerita to speak on campus
January 24, 2018 Anthropology professor emerita Kaja Finkler will share stories from her memoir Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During and After World War II as Experienced byRead more
Charles Price featured on The Institute Podcast
January 9, 2018 Charles Price, Associate Professor of Anthropology, talks about his upcoming book on collective identity formation of the Rastafari. Here the podcast here.
Student and Faculty Recent Accomplishments
December 11, 2017 At the AAA meetings in Wash., D.C., Angela Stuesse received the 2017 Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) Book Award. Professor Stuesse was also mentionedRead more
“Cats of Anthropology” Calendar on sale now!
November 30, 2017 Do you like cats? Do you like to support graduate students? If yes, you are in luck! As you know, SAS created “Cats of Anthropology” calendars featuring theRead more
Adjunct Anthropology professor Stephen Davis featured in University Gazette
November 16, 2017 Adjunct anthropology professor and assistant director of the Research Labs of Archaeology, Stephen Davis Jr, was featured in the University Gazette discussing archaeological findings around Chapel HillRead more
Department News and Celebrations!
November 14, 2017 Anusha Hariharan has been awarded a grant from the Taraknath Das Foundation to support her work on social justice issues in Tamil Nadu, South India. Lauren NareauRead more