Congratulations to John Doering-White for receiving a Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD grant to support a new project titled "Anticipating Humanitarian Climate Futures along the Central American Migration Trail through Mexico." To read more about the project click here.
1st Year PhD student, Aimee Herring in linguistic anthropology won this year’s Jordan Center’s Graduate Student Essay Competition in the Social Sciences. The award comes with a cash prize.
Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski will be honored at the Society of Medical Anthropology’s awards ceremony by the Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE) awards committee for her policy brief submission entitled: “Forgotten Ground Zeros: Local Populations Exposed to Radiation from Former Nuclear Test Sites.” It was chosen for the ARHE Policy Brief Professional Award winners for 2023.
An article Dr. de la Cova was featured in extensively made the front cover of the September/October 2023 issue of Discover magazine. In it she talks about her work and how it affects her.
Dr .Goldberg speaks about her field school in Sesquicentennial and her findings.
Dr. Weik was featured for his "research and preservation efforts at three burial grounds across South Carolina: sites in Blythewood, Daufuskie Island and Hilton Head."
Claudia, the Anthropology Department's Office Manager since 2017, was nominated for this award.
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Monica Barra studies how racial inequalities are shaped by scientific practices, racial histories and climate change in the U.S. South.
The Anthropology Department mourns the passing of our colleague Dr. Leland Ferguson (1941-2023), Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
The Anthropology Department mourns the passing of our colleague Dr. Drucilla "Drue" Barker (1949-2023).
Dr. Stawkowski was cited in an article discussing the Semipalatinsk Test site, also known as the Polygon, which is a testing complex in present-day Kazakhstan that was established by the former Soviet Union.
Over Spring Break, Dr. Kelly Goldberg and a group of six students from local HBCUs went to the Rose Hill Plantation for an archeology field school. These students had the opportunity to explore archeology, something that was outside the scope of their majors.
Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski was chosen to be a McCausland Fellow for 2023 for her research contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Barra was honored as a 2023 Breakthrough Star.
In Summer 2022, Dr. Kelly Goldberg and Nina Schreiner, PhD candidate, led a field school to teach students how to conduct excavations at and analyze artifacts from Sesquicentennial State Park, which is a former plantation.
The College of Arts and Sciences interviewed archaeologists from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and the Department of Anthropology about their findings in the historic Camden Battlefield.
Dr. DeWitte was featured in an article about the analysis of DNA pulled from a burial ground in Kyrgyzstan, which dates the plague to the year 1338. She commented on the research featured in the article.
Emily Brennan and Allison Ham have been awarded National Science Foundation grants for their research related to biological anthropology.
Dr. Carlina De la Cova is featured in an article about medical and scientific racism in the US. She was asked to comment on the research featured in the article.
Savannah Keating, a junior Anthropology and Biology double major, was interviewed on Soda City Live for her position as the president of the Alliance for Women in STEM (AWS). AWS is a student organization.
Nina Schreiner has been awarded a SPARC grant to study artifact collecting in settler-colonial contexts using Native American objects.
Andrea Acosta has been awarded a SPARC grant to study familial and sociopolitical structures in prehistoric Central Italy using skeletons.
UofSC interviewed Dr. Sharon DeWitte about her being elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow along with three other UofSC professors. This article also was highlighted as a Faculty Spotlight article for UofSC News & Events.
Savannah Keating has been granted the Magellan Journey Award to discover if there are trends in diseases that affected past populations.
University Libraries interviewed Dr. Courtney Lewis about collaborating with Mr. Michael Weisenburg (curator of the Gary Lee Watson Comic Book Collections) to create a new academic course - American Indians Go Graphic: Indigenous Voices in Comic Books.
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