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!
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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 […]
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, […]