Warmest congratulations to soon-to-be Dr. Mirjam Holleman, who successfully defended her dissertation on stigma toward people with physical disabilities in Poland and its effects on social integration and lived experiences. Pictured here with her committee (L to R: Nirmala Erevelles, Sonya Pritzker, Jason DeCaro, Mirjam Holleman, Marysia Galbraith, Kathy Oths, William Dressler). […]
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It gives us great pleasure to announce the addition of two new faculty members to the Department of Anthropology! Dr. Courtney Helfrecht and soon to be Dr. Holly Horan are joining our faculty in August. Dr. Courtney Helfrecht comes to us from Washington State University where she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department […]
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Dr. Christopher Lynn has received a $20,000 Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant to continue his work on The Inking of Immunity, Prestige, and Cultural Transmission in the World of Pacific Tattooing. Please congratulate him when you see him. This is an excellent grant score! […]
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Doctoral candidate Larry Monocello was awarded a Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to perform his dissertation fieldwork in Seoul, South Korea. His research focuses on the ways in which culture affects the development of body image disorders in Korean men. He will begin his project in August in Seoul and collaborate with scholars at Seoul National […]
Our own Jessica Kowalksi is officially now Dr. Kowalksi! She defended her dissertation, entitled “Hierarchy, Scale, and Complexity: Arcola Mounds and Mississippian Ceremonialism in the Southern Yazoo Basin” most impressively! Congratulate her when you see her! Photo: Kowalski (black suit, 3rd from left) with her dissertation committee: John Blitz (chair), Ed Jackson, Ian Brown, Lisa […]
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For those of you who were unable to attend the UA Last Lecture Series featuring our own Dr. William Dressler, you can watch it at your leisure. Click below and enjoy! […]
Great news! We have a new publication from two of our own faculty and one of our graduate students. Lisa LeCount along with John Blitz, graduate student Ted (Clay) Nelson and colleague Chet Walker have co-authored the journal article “Land Tenure Systems at the Ancient Maya Site of Actuncan, Belize.” The article is in the […]
Our own Dr. Cameron Lacquement has published a chapter entitled “The Energetics of Earthen Landscape Modification: An Assessment of an Emerging Mississippian Polity.” It is in an edited book by Leah McCurdy and Elliot Abrams called “Architectural Energetics in Archaeology: Analytical Expansions and Global Explorations” from Routledge Press. Click here to check it out! […]
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Our students swept the awards from the Society for Anthropological Sciences meeting in conjunction with the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland! Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Max Stein, “Cultural Models of Mobility: Using Cultural Consensus Modeling to Explore Push/Pull Factors of Network Migration in Trujillo, Peru” Travel Award: Lawrence Monocello, “‘They don’t care […]
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Dr. Ian Brown has been unanimously approved by the Faculty Senate to serve as Commencement Marshall at the August 2019 graduation ceremony. Our department is thrilled by this recognition by his colleagues and students at The University of Alabama. […]
