News & Events
Jack Dalton successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Behavioral Ecology of South African Thick-Tailed Bushbabies (Otolemur crassicaudatus) and Implications on Primate Social and Cognitive Evolution." Jack's committee included
Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Rowe recently completed six weeks of fieldwork in Madagascar and led programming at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) 2026 annual meeting. Fieldwork: In Madagascar, Rowe
Professor Carole McGranahan has published a new peer-reviewed article in History and Anthropology Journal. Co-authored with Deborah A. Thomas, the piece is titled "Disconnected Histories: Cold War Empires in the 21st Century." The
Professor Donna M. Goldstein and Anthropology Alumna Magda Stawkowski (now tenured faculty at the University of South Carolina) have published a new article in the Journal of the History of Biology. The piece, "Of Epistemes and Insects
Professor Kate Goldfarb awarded a Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Small Grant. The grant will provide critical funding for the project, "Launching the Marshall Fire Story Project Archive: A Collaboration with the Louisville Historical
Sarah Klassen, Assistant Director of the Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology (IBS) and Anthropology instructor co-authored article, "The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time" published in Science
Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) published a new outreach article, "Subterranean Worlds of the Ancient Maya." Published on Mexicolore, an educational platform for Mesoamerican history, Nicholas’s work explores the profound
Congratulations to Olumide Ojediran, (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) for receiving a travel grant from the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG). Olumide will use the funds to support his ethnoarchaeological research on contemporary
Chilton Tippin (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) presented his research at the 2025–2026 AGSA Brown Bag Series.His talk, "Dwelling with Drought: Lived Experiences of Climate Change and Megadrought in Mexico's Rio Conchos Valley," examined the
Cristian Figueroa (Archaeology, PhD in Progress) recently presented his research at the 2026 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies, held at the Newberry Library.His presentation, "Interpreting Comca’ac Ceramic Figurines