Flashback Friday! Check out these historic photos from Beach Hall’s construction, circa 1929. To find more great photos from UConn’s history, check out UConn Archives and Special Collections, located in the Dodd Center for Human Rights. Citation: Beach Hall (1929), Construction, Connecticut Agricultural College from the UConn Photograph Collection at Archives & Special […]
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Anthropology in the News- Moving As One
Graduate student Mohammadamin Saraei of the Department of Psychological Sciences and Experimental Anthropology Lab was recently recognized in UConn Today for his research at the UConn Islamic Center. Through collaboration with professors Alexandra Paxton and Dimitris Xygalatas, Saraei studied the concept of synchrony, researching how synchronous movements or acts psychologically affect humans. Saraei’s research was […]
Spring Semester Class- Political and Legal Anthropology
Looking for a class to add to your spring semester schedule? Check out ANTH 3342- Political and Legal Anthropology taught by Dr. Sayantan Saha Roy!
Flashback Friday- Beach Hall Library
Did you know that Beach Hall used to house UConn’s library? In 1929, the library was moved to Beach Hall, where it would remain until the construction of the Wilbur Cross Library ten years later (University of Connecticut Library Records). To find more captivating photos from UConn’s history, check out the Connecticut Digital Archive! Images […]
How Long Have Humans Called Sicily Home? UConn Today
UConn Anthropology “professor Dr. Christian Tryon, graduate students Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Nicholas Gonzalez, Peyton Carroll, and alum Danielle Falci” were featured in UConn Today for their work in Sicily (How Long Have Humans Called Sicily Home?). Amazing work everyone!
Ph.D. Student Tiziana Matarazzo ’14 Featured in UConn Magazine
Geoarchaeologist and past UConn Ph.D. student Tiziana Matarazzo was featured in UConn Magazine’s recent article, Know the Land on Which You Stand. Congrats Dr. Matarazzo! Image courtesy of UConn Magazine
César Abadía Barrero Wins Award
Congratulations to Dr. César Abadía Barrero for winning the 2024 Alejandro Ángel Escobar National Prize in Social and Human Sciences! For more information, check out UConn Today.
Students Participate in Archaeological Field School
This summer, Anthropology students Mya Seara, Abigail Rodriguez, Claire Cathers, Mary Gresh, and Morgan Tirrell participated in UConn’s archaeological field school at the Hollister Site. Students learned the techniques of a professional excavation, and all about contact period archaeology from Dr. Kevin McBride.
Students Experience ‘Authentic’ Greece
The summer field school was designed by anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas to connect ancient Greece and modern Greek culture- UConn Today
PhD Student Tanner Kovach Awarded an NSF Grant
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 […]