February 6, 2025 Congratulations to recipients of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Award: Rachel V. Briggs and Emily Curtin, Teaching Assistant Professors in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology. The award … Read more
October 14, 2024 Congratulations to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology professor Benjamin S. Arbuckle, PhD, who was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research grant. The grant, co-funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and … Read more
Anthropology professor Benjamin Arbuckle assisted in editing a special edition of the journal ‘Animal Frontiers‘ that came out recently. Professor Arbuckle and Anthropology graduate student, Theo Kassebaum, also co-wrote an article for the journal, which can be found here.
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 and has accepted a position in college admissions at the University … Read more
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
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.
August 27, 2019 Further achievements by our students: Lucia Stavig received a Chancellor’s Doctoral Candidacy Award from the Graduate School’s Initiative for Minority Excellence. Further achievements by our faculty: Vin Steponaitis received a Lenovo Instructional Grant for technology-based instructional innovation. … Read more
April 17, 2019 Further achievements by our undergraduate students: Chris Lamack has been admitted to PhD programs in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Madison and University of Pennsylvania, both with funding. He is currently weighing his options. Abigail (Abby) … Read more
March 19, 2019 Further achievements by our students: Eric Thomas has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Ana Ramirez has been awarded a 3-year Ford Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Achsah Dorsey received the Richard Bland Fellowship from the Professional Pathways Program … Read more
April 10, 2017 Molly Greene was award a Fulbright to support her research on gender, civilc society and climate change in Colombia. Liz Berger has been offered a 2-year post-doc in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of … Read more
