Students who earn a Certificate in Latin American Studies enhance their opportunities to work in international business and finance, consulting, international development, technology cooperation and in overseas positions with American companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Besides their formal major, the certificate entitles the prospective UGA graduate recognition of his/her mastery of the language and culture of the region and facilitates more connections at the local level.

The core of INAS’ instructional mission is its undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. These programs permit students to earn UGA degrees in any field, while earning a separate credential attesting to special expertise in Native American Studies. We believe that a certificated degree in Native American Studies is an ideal springboard for any number of future endeavors.

The purpose of the certificate is to expose students to the rapidly expanding interdisciplinary scholarship on women that might otherwise be neglected in their traditional curricula. Interested graduate students must first contact the program advisor to submit an application and to select an interdisciplinary program of study.

The journal Science Advances is a premier publication; having work published in it highlights the team's innovative research. Archaeologist Jennifer Birch and her colleagues find that pottery types give insights into some relationships of Iroquoian16th-17th century populations.Read the article here.

Assistant Professor Roberta Salmi has been working with the producers of the latest two movies in the Planet of the Apes franchise, using her primatology fieldwork and research to provide authenticity to the movies’ gorilla portrayals. She’s shared recorded gorilla calls along with context and behaviors for these sounds. Here’s an interview in the Red & Black, the most informative article on her role in the films. http://bit.ly/2v2aQKV

Today, through August 4, join us in celebrating this year’s appreciation of archaeology in the state of Georgia. Here at UGA the work is always intense. On a typical day, archaeologists at the Laboratory of Archaeology and Georgia Archaeological Site File are busy doing research, training students, preserving and curating artifacts, and sharing information about the important pieces of Georgia history in their care.

My research explores how property is practiced in everyday life. The current wave of development and policy interventions intended to increase land tenure security and women's property rights globally warrant a renewed investigation of what property means in situated contexts, how people make property real in place through relationships to others, and how the possibilities for making claims may become circumscribed by increasing land pressures.

I am a doctoral student in the cultural anthropology program and part of the Community and Environment Lab supervised by Dr. Peter Brosius. I am also working toward a Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and am broadly committed to exploring the intersection of environmental issues and indigenous culture in South America. More specifically, my doctoral research examines how indigenous knowledge and ontologies of nature shape community-based conservation.