Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in Anthropology and BS in Geology in 2015 and again with her PhD in Anthropology in 2020. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Faculty in Ecology at Pennsylvania State University where she is the director of the Socio-ecological Histories of Estuarine Landscapes (SHEL) Lab at Penn State.

Department of Marine Sciences

PhD Student, Alejandro Najera, participated in a mixed methodology study to develop a report card on the Coastal-Marine Zone of Tabasco, Mexico. Alejandro was able to collaborate through the 2024/2025 Student Workshop on International Coastal and Marine Management in the Gulf of Mexico (SWIMM).

Please join us for Kristen Morrow's Dissertation Defense titled "Tracing Primate Presence in Central Kalimantan's Unprotected Forests: Encounters, Governance, and Acoustic Monitoring in Changing Landscapes" on Friday, April 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM in Baldwin Hall, Room 302. 

Rui Bai, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, recently published two articles examining how prehistoric communities in China organized themselves thousands of years ago. The first, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, analyzes burial practices at the Shixia site in southern China (ca.

Third year undergraduate student, Lilia Goldberg, was named one of the Top 100 Student Employees of the Year. Under Dr. Roberta

Please join us for Tabitha Dentice's Master's Thesis Defense titled "Examination of Weaning Practices at Himera: Isotopic Analysis of Permanent Dentition" on Tuesday, March 31st at 2:00 PM in Baldwin Hall 302. 

The phrase “underwater archaeology” conjures notions of shipwrecks, vessels lost at sea, and the dramatic catastrophes that sank them; however, archaeology underwater can also reveal details about ancient landscapes that contain a record of past human occupations. Many of these sites are on the earth’s continental shelves where vast stretches of shallow, coastal lands were exposed at the end of the last Ice Age. These once dry landscapes supported life for plants, animals, and humans for thousands of years.