This Fall, the Department of Anthropology hosted a Photo Contest for Anthropology Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students. Participants submitted their photos at the beginning of this semester, and their entries were displayed in a Gallery Show Event at the Anthropology Main Office in the first week of September. Students and Faculty spent the following week viewing the galleries and voting for their favorite photos. Today, we are excited to announce our 1st and 2nd place winners from each of the Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student categories!!! Our 1st place winners receive a $50 award, and 2nd place winners receive cool swag. To start, the Department of Anthropology would like to thank all of the participants in this year's photo contest for making this event a success! We are proud of our student's work and will enjoy these photos for years to come! Congratulations to our photo contest winners!!!! Undergraduate Student 1st place: Audrey Safir Graduate Student 1st place: Amit Kaushik Undergraduate Student 2nd place: Danielle Kirby Graduate Student 2nd place tie: Katie Foster and Cydney Seigerman Please enjoy our students' photo galleries below! Viewer discretion advised - some images may be disturbing or offensive to some viewers, yet they all represent expressions of both art and science from the research efforts of Anthropology Students "This summer I went to Croatia for the Heritage Conservation & Archaeology study abroad! Here's a picture of me outside the Pula Arena, one of the largest and most well-preserved Roman amphitheaters in the world." -Sophie Forbes "The temple of Hephaestus in Athens" -Danielle Kirby, Undergraduate 2nd Place Photo from the 2022 UGA field school of us attempting to prevent the sun from being in the picture of our excavation unit." -Reyd Mahan This is a 1,200 year old baobab tree in the spiny forest of Madagascar, where I studied anthropology and conducted research this summer." -Audrey Safir, Undergraduate 1st Place "The reconstructed wooden walls of the Bronze Age Settlement, Biskupin in modern day Poland" -Trey Swenton "An old silver coin I helped uncovered from what was once a medieval cemetery in Poland" -Trey Swenton "This photo was taken at Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Pueblo Bonito is one of the oldest Pueblos in the US, and with UGA Interdisciplinary Field Program, I was able to see sites like this and many more!" -Sydney Thornton "Abraço ao Oceano 2019 - Hug the Ocean 2019: event to bring solidarity and respect to ocean waters" -Raul Basilio "Students on the 2022 Interdisciplinary Field Program record observations on a 19th-century structure at the site of Chocolate Plantation on Sapelo Island, Georgia." -Megan Conger "Moonrise over the Apus - (In Quechua, "apu" is the name for mountain spirit. Pictured here in the center is Nevado Ausangate, one of the most sacred mountains, which according to legend fell to earth from the stars and sends water throughout the Sacred Valley.)" -Katie Foster "Alpacas in the chakras" -Katie Foster, Graduate 2nd Place "One of the methods we use in our research is participatory mapping, which can frequently foster cross-generational conversations and generate opportunities to foreground the spatial knowledge of local communities. One thing I love about cultural anthropology is forging connections between different ecological, cultural, & linguistic worlds." -David Hecht "Love how archaeology challenges me to contort my body in new ways, sometimes becoming as small as humanly possible to catch the perfect unit shot. Picture from Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus, 2019." -Alina Karapandzich "Death of a Tiger: Performing Tiger Cremation as per the Hindu rituals in Madhya Pradesh, India" -Amit Kaushik, Graduate 1st Place "In this picture, I am excavating the edge of a pit feature at a Bodrogkeresztúr site during the 2022 field season for the Copper Age Settlement Project (CASP) in Békés, Hungary." -Victoria Nuccio "I took this while snorkeling in Belize as part of a conch population and habitat study."-Kate Pitts "This was taken on an evening kayak trip near Southwater Caye, Belize. Pictured here is the Smithsonian research station--just a short kayak away from our home base caye."-Kate Pitts "Peering into the face of a relative. Photo taken at the National Zoo during data collection on gorilla nutrition and behavior." -Rhiannon Shultz "One More Christmas Gift." On the morning of December 26—a day after all the Christmas presents have been opened—a mother and son share one more gift in the rural area of Quixeramobim, Ceará, Brazil: a glimpse of the first rains of the season."-Cydney Seigerman, Graduate 2nd Place "Transformations." The arrival of rain in Ceará, Brazil transforms the semi-arid ecoregion called the Caatinga, which means “white forest” in Tupi. Water gathers into puddles along the carroçais (dirt roads), as bursts of green paint the gray-white shrubland that predominates the landscape during the dry season."-Cydney Seigerman “Dry-Season Abundance.” In the peak of the dry season, Nazareno—a subsistence farmer and assentado (homesteader)—gathers grass he cultivates for his cattle in the fertile area surrounding of one of the reservoirs in his community, the federal settlement of Maraquetá located in the semi-arid region of Ceará, Brazil."-Cydney Seigerman
