Hannah Combs

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Hannah
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Combs

As a Double Dawg at the University of Georgia, I completed my undergraduate studies in Anthropology and International Affairs, where I developed a passion for legal anthropology and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding social and environmental issues. My research centers on legal anthropology, examining how law, culture, and governance shape social relationships and institutions across diverse communities.

Lulu Castro

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Lulu
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Castro

I am a first-year PhD student in Anthropology, working alongside Dr. Don Nelson on an NSF-funded project in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project focuses on developing impact-based flood forecasts for the San Juan Estuary by incorporating local experiences and future-visioning to inform these forecasts.

Abigail Higgins

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Abigail
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Higgins
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706-542-3922

My main interests are bioarchaeology and skeletal ethics. My undergraduate thesis focused on the ethical stewardship of human remains in university teaching collections. I have also worked on archaeological projects in Transylvania, Romania, studying juvenile osteology, and in North Carolina with the Lumbee Tribe.

Outside of academics I enjoy crafting, hiking, and and waching F1 and hockey. 

Salina Hebert

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Salina
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Hebert
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706-542-8737

Salina Hebert is a collections manager at the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology. She earned her MA from the University of Leicester and her BA from the University of West Florida.  Before coming to UGA, she was the Director of Archaeological Collections at Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where she oversaw both federal and state archaeological collections. She is interested in advancing the care and commitment to collections.  

Simon Paul Sherman III

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Simon
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Sherman
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706-542-8737

Simon P. Sherman is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology at the University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, specializing in geoarchaeology and archaeometry. His research uses non-destructive spectroscopy (VNIR/FTIR reflectance spectroscopy) to source geologic outcrops and quarries, matching these sources to chipped stone tools and debitage, as well as lapidary artifacts, to address raw material provenance at Poverty Point (16WC5), Watson Brake (16OU175), and related precontact archaeological sites in present-day Louisiana.

The Very Hungry Empire: Population Pressures and Agropastoral Management in the Assyrian Empire (c. 950-612 BCE)

Join the Department of Anthropology in welcoming Dr. Petra Creamer, Assistant Professor at Emory University specializing in archaeology of the Near East. Dr. Creamer will be giving a talk titled The Very Hungry Empire: Population Pressures and Agropastoral Management in the Assyrian Empire (c. 950-612 BCE).

Yoga in the Garden

Join the Department of Anthropology with their well-being series, Cultivate. The first event of Fall 2026 will be a yoga & meditation class in the peaceful Latin American Ethnobotanical Gardens located behind Baldwin Hall.

Class size is limited so please register. 

Mats are not provided. If you are unable to bring a mat or towel for practice, please reach out to Hannah Simpson (hannah.simpson25@uga.edu). 

What I Did Last Summer

The Annual Department of Anthropology Show and Tell of Summer Adventures

Join us on Friday, September 11th to hear tell of the summer adventures of students and faculty! 

If you're interested in presenting, please contact Dr. Bram Tucker (bramtuck@uga.edu) by Tuesday, September 1st. Presentations are limited to 5 minutes in length. 

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