Katharine Napora, PhD is an environmental archaeologist at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Napora specializes in coastal societies to better understand how people interacted with the Atlantic coastlines of North America and Europe. Her passions include developing collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, advancing heritage science methodologies, and using information about the ancient past to improve resilience, sustainability, and social justice. 

Congratulations to Dr. Laura German, whose NSF Research Team seminar proposal, Advancing the Anthropology of Contract was selected for funding by the School for Advanced Research (SAR).

I graduated from the College of Wooster in 2018 with a BA in archaeology and classical studies (emphasis on classical languages). Since graduating, I have worked at a public library as a youth services associate (yes, this included organizing story times for young children) and then lived in Paraguay for two years with my partner who is Paraguayan.

The ScienceNews story, "Zoo gorillas use a weird new call that sounds like a sneezy cough," features a published article by Dr. Roberta Salmi and colleagues.

To read Dr. Salmi's full article, "A novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas," click here!

I am a first-year PhD student in the Integrative Conservation and Anthropology program at UGA. I hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester and for the past 4 years have worked as a freelance documentary filmmaker and videographer, telling the stories of mission-driven institutions and creatively communicating scholarly research. My research interests include multispecies relationality, multimodal ethnography, and the legacies of colonialism in agrarian contexts. 

My work is situated within environmental anthropology and political ecology. I explore the relationships between chagras (agroforestry plots), traditional knowledge, and livelihood diversification in the southern Colombian Amazon. My research integrates social-ecological systems theory, ethnobotany, and political ecology to support community-led conservation efforts that protect entanglements of agrobiodiversity, natural resource dependent livelihoods, and knowledge.

Victoria is a Master's student in the Double Dawgs program. They earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in the Spring of 2022 with certificates in Geographic Information Sciences (GIS), and Archaeological Sciences.

I am interested in the intersection of sustainability, subsistence, and science communication and explore these topics through the lens of environmental archaeology. I utilize methods such as stable isotopic analysis and spatial analysis to understand resource management strategies and their interdependent relationship with the climate and local environment.