News & Events
- Congratulations to Kelsey Hoppes who successfully defended her prospectus, "Identification of a Multicultural Settlement Though Ceramic Material Culture.鈥 Her committee included Professors Doug Bamforth, Samantha Fladd, Scott Ortman,
- 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
- Professor Fernando Villanea's co-authored article: 鈥淒emographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico鈥 published in Science. The article is a study of the demographic history of pre-Hispanic central
- Kaitlyn Davis (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, 2022) accepts a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Anthropology Department at Northern Arizona University starting Fall 2023.
- Dawa Lokyitsang published a chapter in "Tibetan and Uyghur Refugees in the New Colonial Era: Reflections on the Rise of Chinese Colonialism." Dawa's chapter is titled "Desiring Leadership: The Tibetan Women's Association and Gender
- Chu May Paing published a monograph in Burmese titled "醼呩愥夺愥勧横羔醼醼会贬横溼结斸横亶" (Beyond the wall of words) by Independent Pinyai Yerba Press. The monograph contains almost 40 essays written under Chu's Burmese pen name "Ma Chinthe" on the
- Graduate student Kelsey Hoppes received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship. She will use the funds to send in samples for radiocarbon dating in order to create a stronger chronology for her dissertation research on multiethnic community
- Graduate Student Scarlett Engle reviewed, "Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement" for Museum Anthropology. Read the abstract in Museum Anthropology
- Graudate student Nicholas Puente received an Alice Hamilton Scholarship. The funds will support the archaeological survey and mapping of two caves at the site of Punta Laguna, in Yucatan Mexico. The fieldwork will provide insight
- Nicholas Puente has been awarded a $750 Mini-Grant to establish the Museo Najil Tucha with the contemporary Maya community in Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico. Puente remarked, 鈥淚 am honored to have received a 2023 Mini-Grant from the Spicer