Congratulations to Bruno Ubiali, a Ph.D. student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology, who has recently published the article “Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon.” The article is based on his thesis and co-authored by his Masters’ advisor, Dr. Miguel Alexiades. The study was conducted with forest extractivist rubber tappers (seringueiros) at the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve, in the state of Acre, Brazilian Amazon. 

I am an environmental archaeologist and maritime archaeologist with an appointment in the Department of Anthropology and direct the Laboratory of Tree-Ring and Archaeological Wood Analysis at Georgia (TRAWG).

Congratulations to PhD student, Bruno Ubiali on receiving the Halperin Award for graduate pre-dissertation research and travel through the Society for Economic Anthropology! Bruno's project is titled, "What is Productive Land? Indigenous and Farmers’ Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier Expansion." Learn more the Rhoda Halperin Memorial Fund award here.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Dr. Attila Gyucha and Instructor, Dr.

Congratulations to PhD student, Jonathan Micon and Associate Professor, Dr. Jennifer Birch, along with Ronald F. Williamson and Louis Lesage, on their new article, "Strangers No More: Kinship, Clanship, and the Incorporation of Newcomers in Northern Iroquoia." Their article was recently published in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology. Learn more about their article here!

Raissa Nogueira de Brito holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences (major: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases). Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Georgia (UGA). Raissa has dedicated her efforts to researching Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and other zoonotic, infectious diseases that disproportionately impact disenfranchised people, primarily focusing on the control and surveillance of these diseases.

Congratulations to the Class of 2021! We wish all of our Fall 2021 graduates success in their future endeavors!

This fall, we have six graduate students earning their PhD's. Congratulations to Russell Cutts, Walker Depuy, Jonathan Hallemeier, Sammantha Holder, Aaron Lenihan, and Jacob Weger!

Russell Cutts, Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology

This December, Claire Brandes’s essay “The Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis: An Optimal Foraging Perspective” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. Here, Brandes further explores the hypothesis on the demise of North American megafauna through an economic lens, by considering the advantages and disadvantages to hunting large game with regards to trade-offs in energy expenditure.

Adjunct Professor, Dr. Sarah Hitchner, along with Dr. John Schelhas from the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service, and Distinguished Research Professor, Dr. J. Peter Brosius have a new book, Forests as Fuel: Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the US South, coming January 2022.

Associate Professor, Dr. Bram Tucker, along with co-authors: Erik J.