Marilyn Rodriguez joined our department as Business Manager II at the end of October, in the position formerly held by LaBau Bryan. She holds Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in both human resources management and accounting from Georgia Southwestern University and will graduate with an M.B.A. degree from the same school in December 2017. Once the main office has been completed, Rodriguez's office will be in Baldwin room 250; in the meantime, she's in room 151, the Ecolab.

David Hecht, Ph.D. student in anthropology and integrative conservation, won a National Geographic Society Young Explorers Grant to support his continuing project work in Bhutan, “Collaborative Watershed Mapping and White-bellied Heron Conservation in S. Central Bhutan." The grant is administered through the NatGeo Conservation Trust program which funds applied and innovative approaches to conservation.

The full title for this talk is Snake Oil, Silver Buckshot, and People Who Hate Us: Metaphors and Conventional Discourses of Wood-Based Bioenergy in the Rural Southeastern U.S.

Sarah Hitchner is presenting this lecture as part of the requirements for consideration as an adjunct professor in the anthropology department

Marilyn joins us from the College of Education's Department and Science Education as a Business Manager II. Since the Baldwin Hall construction continues, you may find her downstairs in the Ecolab, room 151. She now holds LaBau Bryan's former position.

The latest of Pablo Lapegna's books, "Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina" (Oxford University Press), is launched, followed by a discussion and Q&A. 

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student broadly interested in small farming and organic agriculture in the United States, and the way knowledge systems, memory, and agricultural heritage inform how individuals preserve farming practices, maintain traditional varieties, and pass knowledge on to future generations.

My name is Jonathan Micon. I graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology and History from Purdue University. My dissertation research addresses key anthropological themes related to borderlands, interaction, and movement in northeastern North America. Specifically, it uses chronometric dating techniques to re-write archaeological histories about Iroquoian population collapse in the St. Lawrence River Valley during the 16th century. In doing this, it challenges the notion that St.

Dissertation Research: 

Physical activity and play across urban and rural environments in Bolivia 

Other Work:

TA position as science writing coach in the Writing Center, University of Georgia 

Key Words:

Physical Activity, Sport, Medical Anthropology, Latin America