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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Our own Dr. Jessica Kowalski is now the Station Archaeologist for the Arkansas Archaeological Survey and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Congratulations Jessica! […]
“What tattoos really do to our bodies’ immune systems” by our own Chris Lynn has been picked up by CNN Health. Congrats, Chris! […]
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Dr. Brown’s new book China Memories: Journal of an Archaeologist in the Three Gorges Region of the Yangtze River in 1999, has just been released. This volume deals mostly with his experiences in China among its many fascinating people twenty years ago. See: http://www.unprsouth.com/China_memories.htm […]
Attached are two book reviews by Dr. Ian Brown on books that were just released. The first is from American Antiquity and reviews Terry A. Barnhart’s American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology (2015). The second comes from Mississippi Archaeology, reviewing C. Diaz-Granados et al.’s edited volume, Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos (2018). […]
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