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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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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 […]
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! […]
Our former students, Dr. Mirjam Holleman and Cayla Colclasure, have won Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis awards for The College of Arts & Sciences They have also been nominated for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis awards competition. Congrats Mirjam and Cayla! […]
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