UGA Anthropology in the News
Anthropolgy Undergraduate Advisor completes the university's Foundations of Leadership and Management class
Lisa Norris was admitted to the class through an application process in which she shared her goals. She expects her coursework will both prepare her for positions of increasing responsibilty and will enhance her work relationships. July marks Lisa's five-year anniversary with the department. Today's UGA's Columns newspaper covers the March 2009 graduation of just 20 university staff members in this year's leadership course—Leading the Way
Stephen Kowalewski quoted in National Geographic article on the Zapotec civilization
National Geographic magazine, in its March 9 issue, covers a dig near Oaxaca, Mexico which reveals more details about the pre-Columbian Zapotec state. Dr. Steve Kowalewski is consulted as an expert on ancient Mesoamerican civilization. He looks at the demise of the Oaxaca Valley's civilizations in terms of a combination of factors which led to the collapse of their market economy.
Read the article: Zapotec Digs in Mexico Show Clues to Rise and Fall
$6.7 NSF grant, Ted Gragson, featured in UGA's Columns newspaper
UGA’s Columns newspaper features news today of the $6.7-million NSF grant awarded to a consortium of universities headed by UGA to research human settlement and climate change in the southern Appalachians. Dr. Ted Gragson is the lead principal investigator for this project, and is quoted in the article. A good photo accompanies it.
Read the article: http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/news-mountains.htm
Learn more about the research project: http://coweeta.ecology.uga.edu/
Stephen Kowalewski authors new book with anthropologists having UGA ties
The University Press of Colorado has published The Origins of the Ñuu: Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico. This macroregional study traces the ñuu, the
kingdoms of the Mixtecs, through their origins and growth cycles. Among Dr. Kowalewski's collaborators, three earned their PhDs in anthropology in our department; Thomas Pluckhahn, Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, and Charlotte Smith. John Chamblee is a post-doc working here with the NSF-sponsored Coweeta LTER Project. To view the book's catalog listing, click here.
Julie Velàsquez Runk is profiled in UGA's Columns newspaper
Working in Panama, she works with the Wounaan to preserve their culture while conserving their environment...
Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Junior in the news
Keturah Spence, a junior majoring in Anthropology and an intern at the Museum of Natural History, was photographed by UGA's Columns newspaper as she checked out the spine of a newly-assembled Pigmy Whale. See the photo here.
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology releases new issue
EEA is pleased to announce the publication of V4 no1. Please check it out at http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea/issue/current.
Managing Editor Christine Beitl wishes to send thanks to Jen Shaffer for her contribution: “A Landscape of Possibilities” and to Nemer Narchi, Michael Coughlan, Amber Huff, and Ellie Haywood-Maclin for their book reviews. Congratulations to all those involved with the review process, production, and publication:
Manuscript Review Editor: Amber Huff
Book and Video Review Editor: Rich Owens
Editor and treasurer: Elaina Lill
Technical Editors: Katherine W. Dunbar and Victoria Ramenzoni
Manuscript Editors: Michael R. Coughlan, Victor Iminjili, Joshua Lockyer, David Meek, Madalena Monteban, Victoria Ramenzoni, Cara Siprelle, and Laura Tilghman
Christine also would like to acknowledge our in-house advisory board members: Pete Brosius, Rene Bobe, Ervan Garrison, Ted Gragson, and Susan Tanner, and to thank the Department of Anthropology and the Ecolab for production support.
Old Athens Cemetery project involves UGA Anthropology
A past issue of Flagpole magazine covers the work done by university staff and restoration companies, with particular assistance by
archaeology students working with Dr. Erv Garrison using ground-penetration radar (known as GPR) to survey beneath the surface of the cemetery. Read the article here.
11th Annual Seed Swap in the Banner-Herald
The annual seed swap at the Agrarian Connections farm, sponsored by Drs. Nazarea and Rhoades, is the front-page story in the Athens paper today. Read and scroll through color photos here.
Dr. René Bobe's book reviewed in EOS
Hominin Environments in the East Afreican Pliocene, published by Springer and edited by René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged and Anna K. Behrensmeyer, receives an excellent review in the 8 April issue of EOS. The review is written by William Ruddiman, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. Read about the "valuable insights" this volume provides by clicking here.
Dr. Robert Rhoades' new book featured in UGA media
The current issue of the UGA newspaper Columns features in its “Weekly Reader” spotlight the latest book by Dr. Robert Rhoades, published in 2007, called Listening to the Mountains. This collection of new and revised essays are informed by over 40 years of work amongst mountain cultures in such places as the Himalayas, the Andes, the Appalachians and the Alps. Read the piece by clicking here.
Undergraduate Hannah Morris works on a dig in Mexico
Hannah Morris, who will graduate in December 2007 with an A.B. in Anthropology, has spent time this year working with a team from the College of Michoacán, Mexico, to identify and protect archaeological sites in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Read the translation of the regional newspaper article here. For information regarding the acronym used in the story, UNESCO, click here.
Dr. Bram Tucker Guest Edits International Journal
Dr. Tucker served as Guest Editor of the journal Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, September 2007. This special issue, "The Human Behavioral Ecology of Contemporary World Issues: Applications to Public Policy and International Development," also includes two articles by Dr. Tucker. The journal is not yet available online, but the print version is at the UGA Main Library. To read the two articles by Dr. Tucker, visit his page on this Web site under "People."
UGA Anthropology students featured for research and restoration work on Old Athens Cemetery The Athens-Banner Herald recently observed some of the department's archaeology and anthropology graduate students, including Hannah Clark and Jessica Cook, members of the UGA Student Association of Archeological Sciences, in their work to restore the cemetery and discover lost graves. Dr. Erv Garrison has contributed the use of underground radar equipment to help with the project. Read the article and see video by clicking here
Dr. Ted Gragson interviewed by MSNBC on his studies challenging accepted accounts of the Cherokee settlement collapse
MSNBC recently interviewed Dr. Gragson regarding his work, recently published in two journals, revealing new considerations for explaining the demise of the Cherokee settlements. Read the news item below for more details on his articles. To read the MSNBC feature in the network's "LiveScience" segment, click here.
Dr. René Bobe releases textbook
With two collaborators, Dr. Bobe edited Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence, the latest text in the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series published by Springer. According to the publisher, "This volume brings together faunal analysts working at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. Although most chapters focus on the vertebrate fauna of particular localities, authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns accross localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene."
Dr. Brent Berlin and Dr. Elois Ann Berlin recieve international award
The Society for Economic Botany has selected both Dr. Brent Berlin and Dr. Elois Ann Berlin to share jointly in receiving the 2008 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award. This is the most prestigious award conferred by the Society, which was founded in 1959. By accepting this honor, the Berlins join the company of such eminent ecological anthropologists as Harold Conklin, Ghillean Prance, Charles Heiser, Richard Farnsworth and E. Hernádez Xolocotzl. Visit the Society's Web site here.
UGA's Department of Anthropology is ranked #20 nationally for public outreach
The Center for a Public Anthropology has assessed American anthropology departments based to the degree in which each department and its faculty address the concerns of the broader society...
Center for Integrative Conservation Research promotes effective global conservation through a synthesis of social and biological science research methods and approaches
Partnerships and interdisciplinary outreach have enabled J. Peter Brosius, director of CICR and professor of anthropology, to realize the center's creation. From both his earlier interests and his work in 2004 with a select group of conservationists invited by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to reassess the effectiveness of global conservation efforts, Brosius has brought CICR to partner with Advancing Conservation in a Sociat Context: Working in a World of Trade-Offs, an international research initiative administered by the International Institute for Sustainability at Arizona State University. The first three years of this five-year initiative are funded by a $4,300,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Read the complete story of the CICR here.
A Child of Her Time: Juvenile Australopithecus afarensis skeleton
from Dikika, Ethiopia
UGA
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, René Bobe, co-author on two
articles featured on cover of September 21, 2006 issue of Nature
Magazine...
