The Dating Iroquoia project is co-directed by Dr. Jennifer Birch and is made up of researchers at Cornell University, New York State Museum, and the University of Georgia, including Research Assistant, Megan Conger. The Conversation published an article today highlighting the work and research The Dating Iroquoia project has conducted.

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania has awarded PhD candidate, Megan Conger, a 2020-2021 Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship.

Professor Emerita, Dr. Elizabeth Reitz and alumni, Dr. Fred Andrus, along with Daniel Sandweiss, Alice Kelley, Kirk Maasch, and Paul Roscoe wrote an article that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The article is titled, "Archaeological climate proxies and the complexities of reconstructing Holocene El Niño in coastal Peru."  

The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program awarded PhD candidate, Katie Foster, a 2020 IDRF Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US topics. Learn more about the IDRF here. Congratulations Katie!

The UGA Graduate School awarded PhD candidate, Anya Bonanno, a Dean's Award for her research. The Dean's Award assists UGA Graduate students with their dissertation or thesis research by supporting students in collecting data or performing some other aspect of their research. Congratulations Anya!

UGA Department of Anthropology's Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Megan Conger, Travis Jones, Dr. Jennifer Birch, and Dr. Stephen Kowalewski published a recent paper in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. The article, entitled "An Institutional Approach for Archaeology," details a method for analyzing ethnographic and archaeological data that focuses on social institutions, instead of other common socio-spatial referents.

Kristine Schenk is the Registrar for the Georgia Museum of Natural History and also the Registrar and a Collections Manager at the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology. Before joining UGA, Kristine worked at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Robert J. Dole Archive and Special Collections. Her educational background includes an MA in Museum Studies and Anthropology from the University of Kansas and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Florida.

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board awarded PhD candidate, Alexandra Hofner, a Graduate Research Award for her project, "Re-articulating pathways to human-wildlife coexistence in Sri Lanka's North Central Dry Zone." The Willson Center is committed to academic excellence, public impact, and promoting research and creativity in the humanities and arts. Learn more about the Willson Center Graduate Research Award here. Congratulations Alexandra!