This January, three UGA Anthropology students have their essays featured in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research: Isabella Burhanna’s “Caregiving Then and Now: Disability in Ancient Humans Challenges Common Notions of Our Ancestors” examines the similarities in caregiving practices in the Late Archaic and the modern-day US that allow individuals with disabilities to live fulfilled lives. Naiomi Cookson’s “Peer Pressure: Physical and Cultural Changes Under Self-Domestication” explores the role of morphological changes in skeletal anatomy, the development of the brain, and shifting values in social pressures in self-domestication of the human species. Adelaide Loechl’s “Dengue Fever Transmission in Underserved Urban Communities” explores the impact of climate change and living conditions of underserved communities on the transmission of dengue fever in urban areas. You can read these essays and find out more about The Classic in the latest issue, available online at http://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/. Congratulations on these incredible achievements!
