We are delighted to announce that our brand new Global Health Undergraduate Minor is now live! This interdisciplinary minor could hardly be more timely in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is separate from, and can be taken alongside, an anthropology major or minor. To get started, sign up for the Fall 2020 class […]
New Publication by Nikki Henderson and Bill Dressler
Henderson and Dressler have a new article coming out in the April 2020 issue of Cross-Cultural Research: “Cultural Models of Substance Use Risk and Attributed Stigma: A Comparison of Young Adults in Brazil and the United States.” […]
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Dr. Ian Brown Honored for Contributions to Mississippian Archaeology
At the February joint meetings for the Mississippi Archaeological Association and the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Drs. Ian Brown and Vin Steponaitis were honored with the L. B. Jones Award. This award was presented in honor of their outstanding and enduring contributions to Mississippian Archaeology. We could not be prouder! […]
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More University Honors for Mirjam Holleman and Cayla Colclasure
Dr. Mirjam Holleman and Cayla Colclasure, former graduate students in the Department of Anthropology, continue to each receive honors for their respective works. Holleman has won The University of Alabama Outstanding Dissertation Award and Colclasure has won The University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award! The department could not be prouder!!! […]
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New Book Edited by Sonya Pritzker, Featuring Chapter by Pritzker and Jason DeCaro
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion, a new volume edited by Sonya Pritzker along with Janina Fenigsen and James M Wilce is out now. This exciting and unique volume includes a chapter by Pritzker, Joshua Pederson, and Jason DeCaro: “Language, Emotion, and the Body: Combining Linguistic and Biological Approaches to Interactions Between Romantic Partners.” […]
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New Book Chapter from Former Graduate Student Courtney Andrews
Our former graduate student Dr. Courtney Andrews has written a chapter in the volume Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept: Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health published by Lexington Books. Her chapter is entitled “Finding the ‘Culture’ in Acculturation: Cultural Consonance and Health among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama.” Read her chapter here: Chapter […]
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New Publication by Katie Chiou
Dr. Katie Chiou and her colleague Dr. Paul Szpak have published a new article titled “A comparison of nitrogen isotope compositions of charred and desiccated botanical remains from northern Peru,” and is published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Read the article here: Szpak and Chiou 2019 […]
New Dual Degree Programs; GRE waived for admission
Our department will now waive GRE scores for applications, and additionally, we now have approval for two dual-degree programs (MA/MPH and MPH/PhD) in Biocultural Health Promotion. These programs will be available as of Spring 2020. Read Chris Lynn’s Blog for more information. […]
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New Book Chapter from Alex Tokovinine
Dr. Tokovinine has just published a book chapter on Classic Maya landscapes of war in a book put out by the University of Colorado Press. The chapter is attached, and citation is below. Citation: Tokovinine, Alexandre. 2019. Fire in the land: landscapes of war in Classic Maya narratives. In Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and […]
New Publication by Larry Monocello
Larry has written an article for a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Sciences titled “Cultural models of male body image, fat, and acceptable personhood among Euro-Americans and South Koreans.” This is based on his MA thesis research as a UA student. Read his article here. Congrats, Larry! […]