From all of us at UGA Anthropology, congratulations to the class of 2021! We are so proud of you and all of your hard work. Throughout the challenges and changes of the past year, you did it! We look forward to seeing what you accomplish next. This year, we had three graduate students earn their PhD in Anthropology. Congratulations to Dr. Isabelle Holland Lulewicz, Dr. April Smith, and Dr. Katharine Napora! Isabelle Holland Lulewicz graduated with her PhD in the fall of 2020 after successfully defending her dissertation, "Localized Histories of Calusa Ecology and Economy, Southwestern Florida, AD 1000-1500." Isabelle is currently working as a Research Archaeologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. April Smith graduated with her PhD in the fall of 2020 as well, after successfully defending her dissertation, "A Developmental Origin of Infectious Disease? An Investigation of the Influence of Early Childhood Stress on Infectious Disease Mortality in 18th-19th century Italy." Katharine Napora graduated with her PhD this spring after successfully defending her dissertation, "Refining Cultural and Environmental Temporalities at the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Transition on the Georgia Coast, USA." Her research reconstructing 5000 years of environmental changes using information from tree rings and shell midden sites shows that Native American societies of the coastal Southeast were extremely resilient in the face of multicentury climatic destabilization. Congratulations once again to our recent graduates! Dr. April Smith Dr. Isabelle Holland Lulewicz Dr. Katharine Napora
