PhD student, Louisiana Lightsey was recently featured in Flagpole magazine for her Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Shelter Project.

Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she received her MA and her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.  She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982.

UGA Research article, "A million little rings: Using dendrochronology to explore the ancient environment" features PhD student, Kat Napora. The article takes a deeper look into Kat's dendrochronology research and what inspired her to study trees.

UGA Research article, "Pivoting during a pandemic: Fieldwork in the time of COVID" written by PhD student, Linda Kosen, features Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk and PhD student, David Hecht. The article discusses the obstacles and changes researchers have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Roberts Thompson on earning her Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology from the University of York! Amanda recently successfully defended her dissertation titled, "People, Place, and Taskscapes of Enslavement: African American Life on the South End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1849-1861." Amanda currently serves as the Operations Director at the Laboratory of Archaeology. 

Congratulations to PhD student, Suneel Kumar, on being awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research!

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board awarded PhD student, Christina Lee, a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Ecuador. Christina will conduct her research at the Universidad del Azuay where she will take part in a project to understand the impact of globalization on adolescent physical activity preferences and behaviors in rural Ecuador. Read more about Christina's Fulbright Award here. Congratulations Christina!

My multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary research explores long-term social, cultural, and ecological dynamics during prehistory, with a specific focus on the transformative role of population aggregation and disintegration in early farming societies of Southeast Europe.

I obtained my BA in Anthropology and Classics (with emphasis in Classical Culture and Greek) from the University of Georgia in 2018. In my undergraduate studies, I specialized in archaeology with a focus in bioarchaeology. Through UGA I earned a Certificate in the Archaeological Sciences and I had the opportunity to attend a NSF-REU program based in Sicily where I studied human remains from the Greek colony of Himera. My research project there was focused on assessing locality status of 24 individuals, who were buried in two distinct traditions, using strontium isotope analysis.