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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 […]
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, […]
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