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?“
News
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, […]
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 […]
Medical Anthropology Journal Publication: Sarah Williams
Assisstant Professor Sarah Williams and McGill University’s Kathleen Rice have published a collaborative article titled “Partner Exclusion from Childbirth During COVID-19 in Canada: Implications for Theory and Policy” in the journal Medical Anthropology. This is their third paper from their project examining the impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies in hospitals and perinatal care services on […]
Dimitris Xygalatas awarded the 2023 Carol R. Ember Book Prize
Our faculty member Dimitris Xygalatas was awarded the 2023 Carol R. Ember Book Prize for his latest book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, presented at the AAA meeting in Toronto by the The Society for Anthropological Sciences.
Excavation of a 19th-Century Shipwreck at Cape Urdoviza, Bulgaria
On November 29, 2023 University of Connecticut Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology Dr. Kroum Batchvarov will be giving a webinar lecture titled: “Excavation of a 19th-Century Shipwreck at Cape Urdoviza, Bulgaria” at 1:00pm for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology this event is open to anyone who would like to join: Join Webinar
UConn Anthropology Exhibits at the 2023 AAA Meeting!
UConn Prof. César Abadía-Barrero, Prof. Camilo Ruiz, and Prof. Sarah Willen all have exhibits up at the American Anthropological Association’s conference in Toronto this year! Prof. César Abadía-Barrero and Prof. Camilo Ruiz’s exhibit is Casa Común, an art exhibit made up of works from over 50 people impacted by armed conflict in Colombia displaying both […]
Anthropology Journal Publication: Rebecca Kraus
Former UConn undergraduate Rebecca Kraus (BA ’22) published the results of her Senior Honors thesis in Anthropology in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports with Professor Christian Tryon and colleagues from the National Museum of Tanzania and Yale University. The paper is entitled New data from old collections: Obsidian and ostrich eggshell beads from the […]
Anthropology Club Pumpkin Carving
The UConn Anthropology Club had some fun carving pumpkins using stone tools from the department’s Lithic Technology Lab for their Halloween-themed meeting! Join us Mondays from 6pm to 7pm in Beach 447A, and check out our Linktree here for our UConntact page and social media!
ANTH Grad Student Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim receives NSF Grant
Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim has received a competitive National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to fund his dissertation research. His research examines the relationship between agricultural practices, the environment, and social factors during the Iron Age (c. 1200–600 BCE) of the Southern Levant (modern Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) using plant remains. This relationship will be […]