We are pleased to share that in December 2025, Amit Kaushik was awarded the Rufford Small Grant (First) from the Rufford Foundation to support part of his doctoral research. The project funded under this grant is titled "Community-Led Conservation of the Endangered Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) in Human-Dominated Landscapes of Madhya Pradesh, India."     This grant has supported key field expenses and has enabled the…

The Department of Anthropology wants to recognize all of the incredible achievements of students, staff and faculty and a special congratulations to our graduates this semester!  On Friday, April 24th, the department gathered for our annual Awards and Recognition Ceremony. The ceremony was a fun-filled afternoon of gratitude and fellowship.  Highlights included PhD Candidate, Seungyeon Hong's Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts…

The Department of Anthropology is honored to announce that PhD student, Delancey Griffin, was selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Established in 1952, the program supports outstanding graduate students in their research. The fellowship will support Delancey for five years and is a prestigious recognition. Her advisor, Dr. Victor Thompson commented on her project Delancey’s project…

The new article "Negotiating power and community in Early Baekje: Collective action and urban transformation in the Han River Basin, Korea", by Ph.D. Student Seungyeon Hong and Dr. Jennifer Birch, was published in Archaeological Research in Asia journal. Read the article here.   The paper aims to explore how emerging ruling groups and local commoners interacted during the creation of a new social order in the early state, based on…

Asif Ali Sandeelo is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and the Integrative Conservation (ICON) program. As part of his ICON internship with IUCN Pakistan, he produced an article that was published in The News on Sunday (TNS). It is the weekly magazine edition of The News International, a widely read English daily newspaper in Pakistan. It features in-depth analysis, special reports, and articles covering politics, economy,…

The Department of Anthropology would like to congratulate David Hecht, PhD '22, for receiving the 2026 Young Alumni Award from his baccalaureate university, Luther College. David will also deliver Luther College's Commencement address on Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM in Carlson Stadium in Decorah, IA.    David received his PhD in Anthropology and Integrative Conservation (ICON) here at the University of Georgia. Talley Vodicka,…

On Tuesday, May 5th, students from our Animal Communication course taught by Dr. Roberta Salmi presented their cumulative projects on animal communication during a mini conference. From left to right: Lauren Silverman, Reese Tabler, Maxton Moreland, Olivia Stratigos The Animal Communication mini conference highlighted a semester of student-led research, with projects examining gorilla vocal exchanges, the effects of noise on killer whale…

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Student Paper Award is an annual honor recognizing outstanding conference papers based on original student research. Seungyeon Hong, a Ph.D. Candidate at department of anthropology, received this award at the Awards Ceremony during the 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (April 29-May 3, 2026), held in San Francisco. Graduate students from the University of Georgia…

James Strawn recently completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Georgia and will join Troy University as an Assistant Professor and Archaeology Lab Manager in the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology beginning this fall. His dissertation builds on growing work in archaeology that questions whether projectile point “types” reflect real cultural groups. He shows that the haft shape of stone tools preserves patterns…

The Environmental Archaeology class (ANTH 4290/6290) took a trip to the Old Athens Cemetery located next door to the department. Here they had the opportunity to core trees for dendrochronology. Photos include students coring a red cedar tree in the cemetery and a collection of the tree cores where you can see the tree-rings. One of the undergraduate students pictured below, Rosemarie Owens, said, "I had a lot of fun coring trees! We got to look…