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! Suneel's grant will support ethnographic, spatial and archival research to understand how the physicality of the Indus Delta in Pakistan has changed due to upstream infrastructures and saltwater intrusion, and how these changes have in turn shaped human and other-than-human practices and relations in the Delta.

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!

My research focuses on utilizing multiple lines of evidence (including compositional, ceramic stylistic, and lithic analyses) to reconstruct interactive networks and model socio-cultural boundaries at various scales in the past.

My multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary research explores long-term social, cultural, and ecological dynamics during prehistory, with a specific focus on the transformative role of population aggregation and disintegration in early farming societies of Southeast Europe.

With Fall semester right around the corner, we would like to extend a special congratulations to our Spring and Summer 2020 PhD graduates!

Dr. Justin Cramb successfully defended his dissertation,“Manihiki and Rakahanga: The Historical Ecology of a Dual-Atoll Cluster” this past spring. He is currently working with UGA's Center for Applied Isotope Studies, providing primary logistical design support, web design/management, outreach, and data management.