Several Anthropology-ICON graduate students will participate in the fifth annual Symposium on Integrative Conservation conference on Friday, January 26th.

Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate their discipline while sharing it with the world. The Department of Anthropology at UGA has organized activities and displays to showcase how this field helps in understanding humanity's past, present and future.

Shivani is a junior double-majoring in anthropology and biology with a certificate in nonprofit management. Her passion for social justice continues to give her life at the university depth and meaning. She's already begun a vital role that she'll address as a physician: working to alleviate the vast healthcare disparity between rural and larger communities

Learn more about Shivani here.

 

Torben Rick is the director and curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

UGA’s Jennifer Birch and Cornell University’s Sturt Manning are investigators for a National Science Foundation grant, “Establishing a High-Resolution Framework for Age Determination.” A team including graduate assistant Megan Anne Conger works to date Northern Iroquoian sites to new, acutely accurate placements now possible with astonishing developments in radiocarbon dating techniques.

Ben Steere, Director of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University (Ph.D. '11), has published a book exploring the evolution of houses and households in the Southeast from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (200 B.C. to 1800 A.D.). A reviewer states that “The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast” is certain to become an essential reference for anyone doing native archaeology in the Southeast. Another calls the book “a critically important work that moves beyond mere synthesis and summary.”

2009 graduate Faren Rachels’ tattoo says it all: “[H]ad this dream from a tender age.” Faren, who played and sang in Athens bars before her talent took her around the country and the rooms got bigger, releases her first EP next month and Rolling Stone magazine takes notice. The magazine slots her at number one in a piece called “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know.”

Faren was our student worker for two years and anytime you walked by the office, there she was. It’ll cost you to see her now, but there’s the bonus of hearing her sing. 

Several faculty members and an alumnus were featured in UGA's fall issue of Georgia Magazine.