Check out a publication in Sapiens Anthropology Magazine by UConn Professor Christian Tryon and NYU Professor Shara Bailey. Their discovery of photographic remains of fossils of Paleolithic children highlight the importance of archival research in Anthropology. Find out more by reading the article here!
Media Coverage
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, […]
Pandemic Journaling Project in Bloomberg News Article
The Pandemic Journaling Project, co-founded Prof. Sarah Willen of UConn Anthropology and Prof. Katherine A. Mason of Brown Anthropology, was mentioned in a Bloomberg News article on loneliness titled “City Life Is Too Lonely. Urban Planning Can Help.” Check it out here!
New Study Shows Archery Appeared in Europe Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
A new study published in Science Advances contextualizes the traditions and technological knowledge of early, pioneering Homo sapiens. The study demonstrates the mastery of archery by modern populations and extends the evidence of archery in Europe back by about 40,000 years.
Tanner Kovach and Jayson Gill Publish Scholarly Article
Congratulations go out to graduate students Tanner Kovach and Jayson Gill for completing and publishing a new scholarly article in the prestigious Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory! The article, entitled School of Rocks: a Transmission Time Investment Model for Pleistocene Lithic Technology, proposes a “transmission time investment model for integrating the tenets of human […]
Prof. Alexia Smith Honored for her Work With Students
We are very proud to announce that Prof Alexia Smith has been awarded the Honors Faculty Member of the Year Award by UConn’s Honors Program. She is pictured receiving her award from Honors Program Director Jennifer Lease Butts at the Honors Medal Ceremony. The award is given to a faculty member who “has made outstanding […]
Urvi Kaul Receives NSF Fellowship
We are delighted to announce that graduate student Uriv Kaul (far left) has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Urvi, a student of Deborah Bolnick’s, will focus on ” contemporary human population genetics and exploring the impact of politics on human population structures” in her dissertation research. Congratulations to Urvi!
New Book
Hot off the presses, a new book co-edited by Françoise Dussart. Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics. University of Alberta Press, 2022 Edited by Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that […]
UConn Anthropology Statement on the MOVE Bombing Case
In response to the realization that remains of victims from the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia were kept and used by anthropologists for a prolonged amount of time without consent from the victims’ family, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut supports the collective statement released by the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), […]