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  • Gabrielle Perry next to a river
    Graduate student Gabrielle Perry received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship.  She will use the funds in January 2024 for a pilot study focused on the role of climate change in the Classic-period collapse in the lower Rio Verde Valley on the Pacific
  • Erik Jurado in front of a pond
    Graduate student Erik Jurado received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship.  He will use the funds travel, lodging and food expenses for a three month excavation of three elite residential mounds at San Ignacio, a Classic Period (300- 600CE)
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    Marnie Thomson (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2017) co-authored a new essay in Sapiens, “Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class.”  The essay discusses how an anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power
  • Sangaay Tashi presenting at the AAA Conference
    Sanggay Tashi awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.  The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human
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    Katie McGuire featured on KGNU's radio show "How On Earth" as part of their graduation specials.  These specials are for students who have or will soon receive their Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in a STEM-
  • Kevin Darcy Headshot
    Kevin Darcy named a 2023 NAEd Spencer Dissertation Fellow.  This fellowship which is offered by the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education supports innovative dissertation research on ways to improve education. Kevin will
  • Katie McGuire in front of her PowerPoint
    Ph.D. student Katie McGuire successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Navigating the Needs of the Many and the Few: Examining the Relationship between Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) Group Function and Individual Variation on St.
  • Kelsey with a ceramic bowl
    Congratulations to Kelsey Hoppes who successfully defended her prospectus, "Identification of a Multicultural Settlement Though Ceramic Material Culture.” Her committee included Professors  Doug Bamforth, Samantha Fladd, Scott Ortman,
  • Doug in front of a pond
    Professor Doug Bamforth received the first Distinguished Alumnus in Archaeology award from the UCSB Anthropology Department.  Professor Bamforth travelled to Santa Barbara to meet with current graduate students and receive the inaugural
  • Science Cover
    Professor Fernando Villanea's co-authored article: “Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico”  published in Science.  The article is a study of the demographic history of pre-Hispanic central
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