Our most recent Sausage of Science podcast is an interview with our own Dr. Max Stein. Click the link below to check it out! https://www.humbio.org/podcasts/ […]
Dr. Sarah Szurek appointed program director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement for the UF Health Cancer Center
Sarah Szurek, who earned her Ph.D. at the University of Alabama, and who is assistant research scientist in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, was recently appointed program director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement for the UF Health Cancer Center. Dr. Szurek is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on […]
New publication By Chris Lynn and anthropology students
Dr. Chris Lynn and Department of Anthropology students Taylor Puckett, Amanda Guitar and Nicholas Roy have just published a new article online in Evolutionary Psychological Science. It is entitled “Shirts or Skins?: Tattoos as Costly Honest Signals of Fitness and Affiliation among US Intercollegiate Athletes and Other Undergraduates.” As Chris says, “For study 2, we surveyed […]
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Alex Tokovinine co-authors new publication in the journal Science
Alex Tokovinine is one of a number of authors on a new Science research article on the ancient Maya. It is an article entitled, “Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala,” that publishes the results of an aerial LiDAR survey across 2144 square kilometers of northern Guatemala. The study […]
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Pierce Wright Receives SEAC Native Affairs Speaker Fund Award
K. Pierce Wright (2nd year Master’s student) has been awarded a grant from the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) Native Affairs Speaker Fund, given by the SEAC Native American Affairs Liaison Committee, for him to travel to Oklahoma this fall to present his research to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, with whom he’s been collaborating. Congratulate […]
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New Publication by Drs. Lynn, Howells, and Stein
Our own Chris Lynn, University of North Carolina’s Michaela Howells, and our newly defended anthropology doctoral student Max Stein have just published an interesting and important article entitled, “Family and the Field: Expectations of a Field-Based Research Career Affect Researcher Family Planning Decisions.” Click the link below to check it out. Lynn et al 2018 […]
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Max Stein Dissertation Defense
On August 15, just prior to the beginning of the fall semester, our own Max Stein successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Embeddedness, Cultural Consonance, and Health in a Dynamic Migration Network in Northern Peru.” As such, he has officially earned his Ph.D.! Congratulations are in order for Dr. Stein, both for this achievement and for […]
Drs. Pritzker & DeCaro Awarded Wenner-Gren Grant
Sonya Pritzker with Jason DeCaro have been awarded a prestigious and highly selective Wenner-Gren grant for $20,000 for their workshop entitled “Embodying Language in the Context of Culture: Developing Bicultural-Linguistic Anthropology through Research on Interaction, Culture, and the Human Body”. The group of collaborators also includes Dr. Josh Pederson of the UA Department of Communication Studies. In Sonya’s […]
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Jim Bindon’s Podcast Showcased by UA
Dr. Jim Bindon’s podcast website (http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast) is being featured on the university’s showcase page (https://people.ua.edu/showcase.html). These podcasts are being used to supplement anthropology courses at numerous schools throughout the country. Having produced 24 episodes in their first year, they are now going strong into their second year. Check out current and previous episodes at http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast. […]
Dr. Tokovinine’s New Publication
Congratulations are in order for Alex Tokovinine and colleagues for their latest publication: “La Estela 48 de Naranjo Sa’aal, Petén: Contexto, Hallazgo y Texto Jeroglífico” in XXXI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, editado por B. Arroyo, L. M. Salinas, y G. A. Álvarez, pp. 867-876, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal […]