The Archaeological Society of Connecticut and the Friends of the Office of State Archaeology are pleased to invite you to the third and final of our free virtual talks in the Fall 2021 series, this Wednesday, November 17, 2021, at 7:00 PM, when Dr. Sarah P. Sportman, Connecticut State Archaeologist, will present Archaeological Research at […]
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New Publication on Acheulian Armenia
Our graduate student Jayson Gill and colleagues recently published an article in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology entitled “The Techno-typological and 3D-GM Analysis of Hatis-1: a Late Acheulian Open-Air Site on the Hrazdan-Kotayk Plateau, Armenia”. Read it here.
Congratulations to Nardos Shiferaw!
Recently our 2nd year graduate student Nardos Shiferaw won a competitive grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research on Women & Girls of Color at UConn’s Africana Studies Institute. The grant will fund Nardos’ research project entitled “Structural Racism and Covid-19: Black Women’s Experiences of Health in Entwined Pandemics” – a pilot project where she will recruit […]
Archaeological Science Weekend Courses
It’s that time of the year again where the Spring selection of courses have been made available! We are excited to announce that once again, among our other great courses, we are offering four weekend courses in archaeological science, each worth 1 credit. This year we are offering a statistics course using R, a microscopy […]
Alex Brittingham our latest PhD recipient
We would like to congratulate Alex Brittingham for a successful defense of his PhD dissertation Research on September 23rd titled: “Stable isotopes in the Southern Caucasus: Modern Variability, Preservation and Archaeological Applications”. Alex is a recipient of Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Earth Sciences and Institute of Archaeology the Hebrew University of […]
We Celebrate Three Successful PhD Defenses This Spring
UConn Anthropolgy would like to congratulate Dr. Zareen Thomas, Dr. Anne Kohler, and Dr. Joy Ciofi, for successfully defending their respective PhD dissertations this Spring.
Spring 2019 Frontiers in Undergraduate Research
Several of our Anthropology majors and ANTH 3028W students were busy presenting their research at the Spring 2019 Frontiers in Undergraduate Research this weekend.
Congratulations to Undergraduate Luke Anderson!
We want to extend our heartiest congratulations to undergraduate Anthropology major Luke Anderson for winning an honorable mention in UCONNs Aetna Writing in the Disciplines award
5 Questions With… Graduating Ph.D Candidate Zareen Thomas!
On April 15th Ph.D candidate Zareen Thomas will defend her thesis entitled ‘Youth Mediators: Hip-Hop, NGOs, and the Politics of Identity in Colombia and Bolivia’.
Ph.D Student Elic Weitzel Featured on UConn Today
Our Ph.D student Elic Weitzel recently published his first article as sole author.