The anthropology professor was named a 2023-2024 recipient of the University Teaching Innovation Award by the UConn Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
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Summer Interdisciplinary Ethnography Field School in Mauritius
Course type: Overseas Anthropological Field School
Course instructor: Dimitris Xygalatas
Course dates: July 11-Aug. 13, 2023
Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2023
Battlefield, Domestic, and Contact Period Archaeology
Course type: Connecticut Archaeological Field School
Course instructor: Kevin McBride
Course dates: May 22-June 16, 2023
Graduate Student Spotlight: Sara Ailshire
Research Interests: Anthropology of reproduction, human rights, childbirth, human rights law, feminist anthropology, and India.
Alumni Spotlight: Krista Dotzel
Current Title: Archaeologist, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service, Connecticut State Office
Graduate Student Spotlight: Megan Alexander
Research Interests: Death and dying, end-of-life, care and caregiving, biomedicine, and alternative forms of care.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Samantha Archer
Research Interests: Anthropological genetics and epigenetics, feminist and queer science studies, ancient DNA, feminist materialisms, critical disability studies, archive and ephemera, affect theory.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Johan Jarl
Research Interests: Archaebotany, phytoliths, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, transitions.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Tanner Kovach
Research Interests: Human evolution, the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic, Neanderthal evolution and extinction, modern human dispersals, lithics
Graduate Student Spotlight: Corrin Laposki
Pyrotechnology, Air Pollution, Immunology, Host-Associated Microbiomes, Stable Isotopes, Ancient DNA, Health Disparities in Gender, Climate Change, Early Urbanization, Hominin Diet Changes Through Time.