Dr. Kelsey Hanson (PhD 2024, now at University of Texas at Arlington), Kathleen Barvick (current PhD candidate), Rebecca Harkness (current PhD candidate), Dr. Evan Giomi (PhD 2022), Scott Ortman, and ...

In a new video, SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Vance Holliday discusses the groundbreaking discovery of fossilized human footprints and White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Their dating rewrites the ...

Together with her colleague Erika Robb Larkins, Jen Roth-Gordon explores the recent Brazilian trend of purchasing electrical tape bikinis (constructed directly onto one’s body) to achieve “a marquinha ...

A recent article in History reviews 8 of the world's oldest archaeological objects. SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Steve Kuhn provided insights into these objects and the communities who created them.

Associate Professor Maribel Alvarez was interviewed for a recent article in Truthout. Read more here.

Join us to celebrate the start of the new semester and academic year! Come meet new Anthropology community members and catch up with old friends. We will also introduce new staff and faculty members.

In 2020, the School of Anthropology supported a Faculty Research Grant to create a series of 22 videos highlighting the ecological knowledge and expertise of wildlife guides in Ranomafana National ...

SoA Professor Terry Hunt's research was featured in multiple news articles regarding the emergence of a previously unresearched moai statue. The statue became visible when a dried lakebed allowed ...

In her latest publication in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, SoA Assistant Professor Stefanie Graeter tracks lead toxicology from the United States to Peru to show how transnational discourses of lead ...

Jordan Wilson (Ph.D. 2021) has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. As part of an NIH-funded project, Dr. Wilson will be ...

Alum Dan Shaw (M.A. SoA 1968) has a new book out from Carolina Academic Press, in the Ritual Studies Monograph Series (Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, eds.) titled Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman ...

Dr. Edward A. Jolie, Clara Lee Tanner Associate Professor of Anthropology, has a new article just published: “Basketry Shields of the Prehispanic Southwest” appears in the latest issue of Kiva, the ...