The Department of Anthropology and the Laboratory of Archaeology's Dr. Stephen Kowalewski served as an editor on the newly published, The Evolution of Social Institutions-Interdisciplinary Perspectives. This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution through articles written by scholars from multiple disciplines including, Dr. Kowalewski and Dr. Jennifer Birch.
The SAA Archaeological Record featured the Dating Iroquoia project in their September issue. The issue features multiple articles by members of the Dating Iroquoia team, including Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Jennifer Birch, and PhD candidates, Megan Conger and Jonathan Micon, who are both Research Assistants on the project. The SAA Archaeological Record is the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology.
Dr. Victor Thompson, Dr. Brandon Ritchison (PhD '19), and PhD candidate, Isabelle Holland Lulewicz, along with Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Bryan Tucker and US National Park Service's John A Turck recently had their article, "Climate change, resilience, and the Native American Fisher-hunter-gatherers of the late holocene on the Georgia coast, USA" published.
PhD student, Louisiana Lightsey was recently featured in Flagpole magazine for her Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Shelter Project.
Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she received her MA and her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982.
UGA Research article, "A million little rings: Using dendrochronology to explore the ancient environment" features PhD student, Kat Napora. The article takes a deeper look into Kat's dendrochronology research and what inspired her to study trees.
UGA Research article, "Pivoting during a pandemic: Fieldwork in the time of COVID" written by PhD student, Linda Kosen, features Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk and PhD student, David Hecht. The article discusses the obstacles and changes researchers have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Roberts Thompson on earning her Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology from the University of York! Amanda recently successfully defended her dissertation titled, "People, Place, and Taskscapes of Enslavement: African American Life on the South End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1849-1861." Amanda currently serves as the Operations Director at the Laboratory of Archaeology.
Congratulations to PhD student, Suneel Kumar, on being awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research!
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board awarded PhD student, Christina Lee, a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Ecuador. Christina will conduct her research at the Universidad del Azuay where she will take part in a project to understand the impact of globalization on adolescent physical activity preferences and behaviors in rural Ecuador. Read more about Christina's Fulbright Award here. Congratulations Christina!
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