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. […]
Read Moreabout New Dual Degree Programs; GRE waived for admission
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! […]
Read Moreabout University Honors for Mirjam Holleman and Cayla Colclasure
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! […]
Read Moreabout Chris Lynn’s Research on Tattooing and Immune Systems Featured on CNN Health
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). […]
Read Moreabout New Book Review Publications from Dr. Ian Brown
We have a new publication from Dr. Dressler and colleagues (see attached). It is the result of his continued work in Brazil. See full citation below. Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2019) Agency, cultural consonance, and depressive symptoms: A Brazilian example. Ethos 47: 148-167. Dressler, Balieiro, and Santos (2019) […]
Dr. Alexandre Tokovinine takes photos to create a photogrammetry 3-D model of broken fragments of a Mayan monument (Courtesy of Estrada-Belli, Tulane University). Dr. Alexandre Tokovinine’s recent work on warfare in the Maya lowlands has been profiled in the New York Times and UA News. As the UA News Center explains: An anthropologist at The […]
Read Moreabout Dr. Tokovinine’s Work on Maya Warfare Profiled in the New York Times, UA News
