Nicole Henderson has co-authored an article published in Field Methods with Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver and Dr. Craig Hadley, entitled “The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil:
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PhD Student Mike Fedoroff (and colleague Brian Zettle) Awarded Competitive U.S. Army Grant to Host Workshop on Indigenous Rivercane Restoration in Southeastern U.S.
Mike Fedoroff and colleague Brian Zettle, biologist at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, were just awarded a competitive $75,000 grant from the US Army Corps of Engineers Sustainable Rivers Program
Dr. Kathy Oths and Adam Booher’s Documentary Selected for Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival
Dr. Kathy Oths ethnographic documentary produced with former University of Alabama Student, documentarian and creator of Found Media, Adam Booher, The Last Bonesetter (2018), has been selected into the Royal Anthropological
Dr. Katherine Chiou Awarded Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
Dr. Katherine Chiou, along with her colleague Dr. Di Hu, assistant professor of anthropology at James Madison University, were just awarded a $20,000 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to host
Recent MA Graduates Dillon Patterson and Wade Tidwell Win Big, Again!
Congratulations to recent MA graduates Wade Tidwell and Dillon Patterson who just swept the UA Master’s Research Awards! Wade Tidwell, who last semester earned the College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Stephanie McClure Leading UA Team in National CommuniVax Initiative
Dr. Stephanie McClure is leading a team of UA researchers, including our own Dr. Kathryn Oths, as the principal investigator of the CommuniVax Alabama Initiative – a rapid ethnographic research
Professor Ian Brown Publishes New Book
Prof. Ian Brown has published a new book detailing his travel adventures in Russia while on a People to People archaeology delegation immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union,
PhD Student Michael Fedoroff Receives Civilian Service Achievement Medal from the Dept. of the Army
PhD student Michael Fedoroff has received a Civilian Service Achievement Medal from the Department of the Army for his work leading an interagency team of investigators to prosecute a ring
New Edited Volume from PhD Alums Ashley Dumas and Paul Eubanks
PhD alums Ashley Dumas and Paul Eubanks published their new edited volume Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology with the University of Alabama Press. Congratulations
Anthropology Department’s statement on racial justice and disciplinary decolonization
In early June, our faculty recognized the need to become more intentionally involved in the international racial injustice movement. Below is our department’s position statement. Take note that the document