Delancey Paden Griffin

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Delancey Paden Griffin, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation from Oklahoma, is an incoming Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Dr. Victor Thompson. Her research focuses on Indigenous Archaeologies in the Southeastern United States, particularly on the intricacies of conducting collaborative archaeology on ancestral land with forcibly removed Tribal Nations.

Hadley Laura Mueller-Hill

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I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Georgia, where I will be working with Dr. Salmi in her Primate Behavioral Ecology Lab. I have a background in animal biology and behavioral research, with an M.S. in Integrative Biology from Kennesaw State University and a B.S. in Biology from Georgia Tech. My research interests focus on social behavior in nonhuman animals, particularly highly social mammals like western lowland gorillas.

Dr. Suzie Pilaar Birch unveils two new studies on Bronze Age herding and agropastoral practices

Artistic illustration of the landscape around the Early Bronze IV village at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan. View facing south depicts fields and pastures along the Jordan Rift, which is bounded by the Transjordanian Plateau to the east and the Southern Levantine Central Hills to the west. In the foreground, village houses, sherd-paved streets, a broad room temple, and lamb burials in the temple forecourt are depicted on the basis of remains excavated from Phase 6 (modeled ∼ 2483–2452 cal BCE). Artwork by Gary J

Dr. Suzie Pilaar Birch, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, recently published two open-access research articles exploring ancient agropastoral practices in the Eastern Mediterranean. These publications contribute to a growing body of work on how early agricultural societies responded to environmental conditions and managed their landscapes.

Professor Jen Birch featured author in PNAS special edition on economic inequality

Still photo from drone video by Jonny Miller of Durban South Africa, via The Guardian.

UGA Anthropology professor Jennifer Birch is a featured author in a special feature in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term, which brings together a large team of international experts to examine wealth disparities over the past 10,000 years using archaeological and ethnographic data.

PhD student publishes in Conservation Biology

Amit Kaushik

Amit Kaushik, a PhD candidate in ICON and Anthropology, recently co-authored two papers published in Conservation Biology as part of the Special Issue: Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences. These publications reflect ongoing collaborations within the Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working Group (SSWG), where Amit currently serves as a board member.

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