Cydney K. Seigerman Photo: First Name: Cydney Last Name: Seigerman Read more about Cydney K. Seigerman Cydney earned their PhD in Integrative Conservation (ICON) and Anthropology in April 2024. Their dissertation, entitled "Fluid Inequities: The Dynamics of Water Relations and Water Insecurities in Ceará, Northeast Brazil," explores how socionatural (i.e., interrelated sociopolitical, environmental, and technological) processes shape and are shaped by the lived experience of water insecurity in the semi-arid region of Ceará, Brazil.
Assistant Professor Birch awarded National Science Foundation grant to develop high-precision Northern Iroquoian chronology through radiocarbon dating Assistant Professor Jennifer Birch has been awarded an National Science Foundation grant for a project called “Establishing a High-Resolution Framework for Age Determination.” This research will, for the first time, construct a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for select Northern Iroquoian site relocation sequences in Ontario and New York State. The study aims to collect 245 new dates from 41 Iroquoian village sites. Read more about Assistant Professor Birch awarded National Science Foundation grant to develop high-precision Northern Iroquoian chronology through radiocarbon dating
Suzanne Pilaar Birch discusses working in the field while pregnant—and shares other women's fieldwork stories—in the internationally read Guardian newspaper Assistant Professor of anthropology and geology Suzanne Pilaar Birch had a dilemma. She’d just been offered her grant-funded fieldwork opportunity in Cypress, yet her son’s birth was just three months away. Was it safe? Were their other women scientists who had worked in the field while expecting? She turned to her co-created site, Trowelblazers, that both celebrates past and present archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists and educates future scientists and the public about their contributions. It now provides a social network, too. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch discusses working in the field while pregnant—and shares other women's fieldwork stories—in the internationally read Guardian newspaper
Samm Holder Featured in Archaeology Magazine One of Sammantha Holder’s research projects is her bioarchaeological engagement with massed remains of Napoleon's Grand Army soldiers and troop followers who were killed at once by the brutal onset of the Lithuanian weather while attempting an invasion of Russia. This work is featured in Archaeology magazine. Click here to read the article. Read more about Samm Holder Featured in Archaeology Magazine
Follow the 2017 UGA Mississippian field school team's findings The official blog of SMASH: The Singer-Moye Archaeological Settlement History Project. Investigations of a Mississippian town, in the lower Chattahoochee River valley is updated by Assistant Professor Jennifer Birch, who is running the 2017 field school. Keep up with the team's progress as it happens on the blog itself: http://bit.ly/2sVmjuk Read more about Follow the 2017 UGA Mississippian field school team's findings
German shares international land policy experience Associate Professor Laura German (center, with flag) has just returned from teaching a course at the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The one-week course, entitled, “Situating the Local in Land Relations,” was part of a one-month course on Land Policy for Sustainable Rural Development for professionals from 31 countries. Read more about German shares international land policy experience
Faculty member Mark Williams transitions to emeritus status Faculty member Mark Williams now holds emeritus status within the department. He remains director of both the university’s archaeology laboratory and the Georgia Archaeological Site File. Read more about Faculty member Mark Williams transitions to emeritus status
Reitsema shares cemetery research findings and asks for community input regarding future work. Bioarchaeologist Laurie Reitsema (right) recently shared with Athens community participants the research findings made following the discovery of a local cemetery where slaves had been interred. The project began when the unmarked graves were discovered during the Baldwin Hall reservations in 2015. She shared the DNA results of those individuals whose remains could be tested among the 105 burials. Reitsema said further historical and bioarchaeological work could be done to learn about those buried, but distributed a survey measuring opinions among the listeners. Read more about Reitsema shares cemetery research findings and asks for community input regarding future work.
