The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that doctoral candidate Linda Kosen will defend her Dissertation on Tuesday, November 15th. Linda's Dissertation is entitled, "Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: The Role of Relational Citizen Science in the Conservation and Care of Laysan Albatross in the Hawaiian Islands". Please help the Department congratulate Linda on this accomplishment and wish her the best as she looks toward graduation in December. 

The AIA-Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) working group has developed a new conference format called Quick Takes: Big Archaeological Topics in 5min or Less to explore concepts with critical implications in the field of archaeology and disseminate information for the AIA meetings and beyond.

Dr. Suzanne Pilaar Birch co-edited a special feature issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), "Recent Advances in Archaeological Science Techniques." The introduction, "Current developments and future directions in archaeological science," can be found here.

In an RTL article, Dr. Meredith Welch-Devine discusses climate change adaptation and extreme weather impacts: "We should absolutely be concerned about the increasing human cost of these storms," said Meredith Welch-Devine, associate professor in climate change adaptation and extreme weather impacts at the University of Georgia.

The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that Mary Porter Freeman will defend her Master's Thesis entitled: "Delineating Indigenous Chronologies and Rediscovering the History of the Buckhead Site (9CH150), Ossabaw Island, Georgia", on Thursday, November 3rd at 1:00pm.  Please join us in congratulating her on this accomplishment!

Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Ph.D., Dr. Habil is a Professor in Ethnology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor in Global Problems and International Relations, Vice-Director for Research Institute for African Studies and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Director of the International Center of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Full Professor in Ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities. Dr.

Dr. Laurie Reitsema and colleagues recently published their article The diverse genetic origins of a Classical period Greek Army in the PNAS.

Dr.

Hsain Ilahiane is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. He is author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis (2004); Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) (2017); and of The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations (2022). 

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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.