The Department of Anthropology will host an Orientation for all incoming Graduate Students on Tuesday, August 16th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Incoming Graduate Students should meet Dr. Don Nelson in 250 Baldwin Hall at 1:00pm.

This event will not be catered and we encourage you to eat lunch prior to attending this event.

If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Titley (Graduate Program Assistant) or Dr. Don Nelson (Graduate Coordinator) at anthrograd@uga.edu. We look forward to meeting you all!

(This event is not open to undergraduate students)

Associate Professor, Jennifer Birch, along with co-authors Turner W. Hunt from the Muscogee Nation Historic and Cultural Preservation Department, Louis Lesage from the Huron-Wendat Nation Bureau de Nionwentsïo, Jean-Francois Richard from the Huron-Wendat Nation Bureau de Nionwentsïo, Linda A. Sioui from the Huron-Wendat Nation Bureau de Nionwentsïo, and Victor D.

Emma is the executive director of the Malagasy NGO Reef Doctor, living and working in southwest Madagascar for nearly two-decades. She is responsible for the direct overall strategic program planning and budgeting processes of the organization: working alongside the indigenous population to conserve Madagascar’s biodiversity and promote sustainable development.

Janaki is a trained ecologist who discovered her affinity for social sciences while working with indigenous communities in the eastern Himalayas for WWF-India. During her five years with WWF-India, she has worked closely with the communities to capture the discrepancies between well-intended conservation interventions and the realities that materialize on ground. She has dabbled briefly with the vast world of traditional ecological knowledge that exists in several traditional informal institutions.

Congratulations to Saadia Sultan Wahla, a Ph.D. Research Scholar whose article, “Assessing spatio-temporal mapping and monitoring of climatic variability using SPEI and RF machine learning models,” which focuses on the Cholistan Desert in Pakisan, was recently published in the Geocarto International Journal. Read the full article here!

Congratulations to Bruno Ubiali, a Ph.D. student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology, who has recently published the article “Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon.” The article is based on his thesis and co-authored by his Masters’ advisor, Dr. Miguel Alexiades. The study was conducted with forest extractivist rubber tappers (seringueiros) at the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve, in the state of Acre, Brazilian Amazon. 

I use dendrochronology, wood anatomy, tree-ring stable isotopes, and wider archaeobotanical methods to investigate human-environment interactions and their long-term impact legacies during the Anthropocene. My recent studies focus on the challenge to articulate a high-resolution chronology appropriate and comparable with the lived histories of the Indigenous village settlements in Northeast North America.

Congratulations to PhD student, Bruno Ubiali on receiving the Halperin Award for graduate pre-dissertation research and travel through the Society for Economic Anthropology! Bruno's project is titled, "What is Productive Land? Indigenous and Farmers’ Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier Expansion." Learn more the Rhoda Halperin Memorial Fund award here.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Dr. Attila Gyucha and Instructor, Dr.