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.

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Dr. Don Nelson is a part of a team of investigators on the "Resilient Agricultural Landscapes Initiative".

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.

Department of Marine Sciences

PhD Student, Alejandro Najera, participated in a mixed methodology study to develop a report card on the Coastal-Marine Zone of Tabasco, Mexico. Alejandro was able to collaborate through the 2024/2025 Student Workshop on International Coastal and Marine Management in the Gulf of Mexico (SWIMM).

Please join us for Kristen Morrow's Dissertation Defense titled "Tracing Primate Presence in Central Kalimantan's Unprotected Forests: Encounters, Governance, and Acoustic Monitoring in Changing Landscapes" on Friday, April 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM in Baldwin Hall, Room 302. 

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.