Aiyana Thomas Photo: First Name: Aiyana Last Name: Thomas Read more about Aiyana Thomas Aiyana Thomas is a Ph.D. student researching human-environment interactions in coastal regions, primarily the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the U.S., through zooarchaeological and isotopic analyses. Under the guidance of Dr. Victor Thompson, Aiyana plans to evaluate how archaeological investigations paired with historic and present-day data can expand the current understanding of environmental change in coastal landscapes throughout history.
PhD Candidate Receives National Science Foundation Grant for Research on Understanding the Interface of Diplomacy, Politics, and Conservation Asif Ali Sandeelo, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Integrative Conservation (ICON) and Anthropology program at UGA, has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled “A Political Bird: Elite Falconry, Wildlife Laws and Marginalized Communities of Sindh, Pakistan”. Read more about PhD Candidate Receives National Science Foundation Grant for Research on Understanding the Interface of Diplomacy, Politics, and Conservation
UGA researchers create new tool to track ancient human movement in Türkiye UGA Anthropology professor Suzanne Pilaar Birch is the senior author of a new study that helps uncover how people moved across ancient Türkiye. Working with UGA alumnus and co-author Maxwell Davis and other collaborators, the team improved the chemical mapping tools archaeologists use to study ancient mobility. Read more about UGA researchers create new tool to track ancient human movement in Türkiye
Adarsh Shahi Photo: First Name: Adarsh Last Name: Shahi Read more about Adarsh Shahi Adarsh Kumar Shahi is a first-year Ph.D. student in Anthropology and Integrative Conservation (ICON) at the University of Georgia. He is interested in questions of Land and Forest rights, Protected Areas and Conservation, the ontology of loss and the entangled lives of humans, non-human and other-than-human entities.
Understanding people, and reaching them: UGA Anthropology tops public impact ranking Anthropology has always been about understanding people, but how often does that understanding reach the public it seeks to serve? That question sits at the heart of a growing movement to reconnect anthropology with the broader public, and the University of Georgia’s Department of Anthropology is helping lead the way. Read more about Understanding people, and reaching them: UGA Anthropology tops public impact ranking
Penny Merva Photo: First Name: Penny Last Name: Merva Read more about Penny Merva My master’s research focuses on understanding relationships between modern Indigenous ceramic practice and Native studies concepts like survivance, generational knowledge transmission, and traditional ecological knowledge. By examining Native studies literature alongside conversations with potters and community members, I hope to produce research that is grounded in lived experience and contemporary practice.
Samuel Siaw Photo: First Name: Samuel Last Name: Siaw Read more about Samuel Siaw I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Anthropology program, with research interests in rural development, agricultural sustainability, climate change adaptation, and environmental justice. My work is driven by a desire to understand how farming communities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and rural areas of the United States, adapt to environmental and economic challenges in ways that promote resilience and long-term sustainability.
Delancey Paden Griffin Photo: First Name: Delancey Last Name: Griffin Read more about Delancey Paden Griffin Delancey Paden Griffin, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation from Oklahoma, is an incoming Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Dr. Victor Thompson. Her research focuses on Indigenous Archaeologies in the Southeastern United States, particularly on the intricacies of conducting collaborative archaeology on ancestral land with forcibly removed Tribal Nations.
