Katie Foster is a postdoc with the Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) in the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and Department of Anthropology.  Her current research examines equity, risk, and trade-offs in natural infrastructure development for water management challenges (e.g., drought, flooding, sea level rise) in the US. 

She is a member of Don Nelson's Humans and Environmental Change Lab.

Research interests— economic anthropology, institutional analysis, land tenure, West Africa, United States

Associate professors Julie Velásquez Runk and Susan Tanner are part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary current project investigating links between deforestation and the zoonotic diseases leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease. Learn more about the project in an article led by anthropology graduate student Jessie Dyer. 

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Bioarchaeologist Carey Garland presents his dissertation prospectus, fully titled "Biocultural Dynamics of Spanish Colonization on St. Catherines Island, GA: Bioarchaeological Perspectives from the Sites of Fallen Tree and Santa Catalina de Guale."

Dr. González teaches many of the introductory course sections and a few smaller upper level courses.  Dr. González has not done anthropological research in a while, being focused on teaching, but his past research focused on Classic Maya archaeology in Belize, with interests in built environments, political/domestic/ritual landscapes, political and social organization, human/environmental dynamics, and the negotiation of daily power relationships.  

Ben Steere, alum of this department, now a faculty member at Western Carolina University, has won this recent award given by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Click here to read more about Steere's award.

The Laboratory of Primate Behavioral Ecology provides a workspace for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in research on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation.

For many years, UGA archaeologist Victor Thompson and Chester DePratter of the University of South Carolina have worked to excavate and interpret findings from the S.C. Parris island coastal area known to be the first  Spanish colonial capital in what became the United States. This summer they made an exciting discovery of the exact location of the 16th-century Fort San Marcos. The revelation has garnered extensive international media coverage.

Marilyn Rodriguez joined our department as Business Manager II at the end of October, in the position formerly held by LaBau Bryan. She holds Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in both human resources management and accounting from Georgia Southwestern University and will graduate with an M.B.A. degree from the same school in December 2017. Once the main office has been completed, Rodriguez's office will be in Baldwin room 250; in the meantime, she's in room 151, the Ecolab.

David Hecht, Ph.D. student in anthropology and integrative conservation, won a National Geographic Society Young Explorers Grant to support his continuing project work in Bhutan, “Collaborative Watershed Mapping and White-bellied Heron Conservation in S. Central Bhutan." The grant is administered through the NatGeo Conservation Trust program which funds applied and innovative approaches to conservation.