Archaeology PhD student Tanner Kovach was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled Investigating the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Caucasus. Tanner will investigate how technological strategies changed between the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic, and what these differences can tell us about cultural transmission between Neanderthals and Homo […]
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Christian Tryon published in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine!
Check out a publication in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine by UConn Professor Christian Tryon and NYU Professor Shara Bailey. Their discovery of photographic remains of fossils of Paleolithic children highlight the importance of archival research in Anthropology. Find out more by reading the article here!
Undergraduate Chelsea Betts Receives Competitive Internship
UConn Anthropology Major Chelsea Betts has been awarded a competitive Zooarchaeology internship at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, CO for the summer of 2024. Congratulations Chelsea, we are so proud of you!
UConn Grad Student Presents at Paleoanthropology Society Meeting
Graduate student Elena Skosey-LaLonde presented her research on Paleotemperature reconstruction in Middle Stone Age-Later Stone Age contexts in Mozambique at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting this year!
Pandemic Journaling Project in the news!
The Pandemic Journaling Project, co-founded by ANTH faculty member Sarah Willen, is in the news! Check out these new articles in UConn Today and UConn Magazine: UConn Today: “Pandemic Journaling Project Archive Opens for Research” UConn Magazine: “Who Tells Our (Pandemic) Story?“
Kelly Ruesta featured on Indie Major!
Kelly Ruesta, an individualized major who has taken multiple Anthropology classes — and who was in the first cohort of the department’s Research Apprenticeship Program (formerly Research MASTER Program), was recently featured in a new podcast called Indie Major! Indie Major is a podcast dedicated to the stories and visions of individualized majors at UConn, […]
Anthropology Club at the Involvement Fair
On Wednesday, 2/7, the officers of Anthropology Club represented their club at the Spring Involvement Fair! Anthropology Club meets every Monday in Beach Hall 447A from 6pm-7pm. To sign up for email notifications and join Anthropology Club, check out this link!
Upcoming Event: Anthropology Club Movie Night!
The UConn Anthropology Club will be hosting a movie night this Monday, January 29th at 6pm in Beach 443! We will be watching a documentary Prof. Seraphin has worked on, The Women They Are Carrying Fire – Pa’asik`tavaansas Kuniktáamvunatih. This will be accompanied by a Q&A session at the end of the documentary. All are […]
Pandemic Journaling Project in Bloomberg News Article
The Pandemic Journaling Project, co-founded Prof. Sarah Willen of UConn Anthropology and Prof. Katherine A. Mason of Brown Anthropology, was mentioned in a Bloomberg News article on loneliness titled “City Life Is Too Lonely. Urban Planning Can Help.” Check it out here!