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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Jacob Holland-Lulewicz

Jacob “Jake” Holland-Lulewicz, an anthropology Ph.D. alumnus from the University of Georgia (UGA), shares insights into his graduate career and how it helped craft a path to achieving his dream role in academia!   During his time at UGA, Jake reflects on the faculty holding the biggest influence on where he is today. Jake emphasizes that it is hard for him to envision a path to where he is today without UGA and the Anthropology…


Workshop Explores Research Methods to Transform Qualitative Methods into Quantitative Data

On January 23, 2026, political scientist Dr. Nathan Cook delivered a seminar and a workshop for graduate students and faculty of the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia. Dr. Nathan Cook is an assistant professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, working on the intersections of public policy analysis, environmental policy, and…


Alumni Spotlight: Jacob Estes

University of Georgia (UGA) alumnus Jacob Estes reflects on both his undergraduate and graduate journeys and how his interdisciplinary path helped shape a dynamic career, leading him to where he is now! Originally from East Atlanta, Jacob began his college career playing basketball at a small school where he was awarded a full athletic scholarship to support his higher education. While he excelled academically, he was also recognized as…

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PhD Student, Sarieh Amiribeirami, co-authored paper published in scientific journal Nature

PhD Student, Sarieh Amiribeirami, co-authored a paper published in the scientific journal, Nature. Read below for a brief description of the work and if you'd like to access the full paper follow this link. Dogs have been companions for humans for millennia. They were the first animal to be domesticated, and remains with possible dog morphology have been dated to at least 14,000 years ago. But the exact origins and nature of early dog remains a…

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Dr. Don Nelson Awarded UGA's 2025 Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant

Dr. Don Nelson is a part of a team of investigators on the "Resilient Agricultural Landscapes Initiative". This cohort is comprised of many investigators both internally and externally including Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Anthropology, College of Engineering, Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture, Archway Partnership, College of Agriculture and Environmental…

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Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, BA & BS ‘15, PhD ‘20, will be joining the department as the alumni speaker at our Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in Anthropology and BS in Geology in 2015 and again with her PhD in Anthropology in 2020. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Faculty in Ecology at Pennsylvania State University where she is the director of the Socio-ecological Histories of Estuarine Landscapes (SHEL) Lab at Penn State. Her primary research program focuses on the…


Departmental Award Recipients 2026

Join us in congratulating the following students on receiving departmental award funding this year and read more to learn about their plans. Seungyeon Hong  Recipient of the Janis Faith Steingruber Student Travel Award  With the grant, I will go back to South Korea this summer to collect legacy wood materials from Korean museums for radiocarbon dating. This will help reconstruct regional chronologies during the period of state…

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Rui Bai, PhD Student, Publishes Two Articles

Rui Bai, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, recently published two articles examining how prehistoric communities in China organized themselves thousands of years ago. The first, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, analyzes burial practices at the Shixia site in southern China (ca. 5,000–4,000 years ago) and finds that this society maintained significant social differences through flexible, competitive…

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Lilia Goldberg named Top 100 Student Employee of the Year

Third year undergraduate student, Lilia Goldberg, was named one of the Top 100 Student Employees of the Year. Under Dr. Roberta Salmi's guidance, she spent the fall and spring of this past year gathering information on and cataloguing the Department of Anthropology's primate specimens. She reorganized and relabeled the display cases for fossil casts in one of the classrooms. Lilia shared that she "loved getting to do some detective work to…


Research Seminar Explores New Approaches to the Early Colonial Southeast

This semester, our department hosted a research seminar that brought together scholars working to deepen understanding of the social landscape of the Southeast before, during, and after the Spanish entradas led by Hernando de Soto (1539–1543) and Juan Pardo (1566–1568). Participants examined how to more effectively situate Indigenous communities, town sites, and early colonial encounters within absolute calendrical time, while also looking…
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