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 […]
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! […]
“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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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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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) […]
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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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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