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Abstract: Studies of the ancient Greek world have typically focused on the life histories of elite males as they have made the most distinct mark on ancient Greek literature, art, and material culture. As a result, the voices of non-Greeks, the physically impaired, the impoverished, and the generally disenfranchised have been silent, which has substantially complicated the creation of a historical narrative of these marginalized groups.In…

Indigenous Guale Indians first greeted Jesuit missionaries to the Georgia coast in 1566, but their missionary effort there was spectacularly unsuccessful. Franciscans arrived a decade later and worked with Guale leaders to establish Mission Santa Catalina as Spain’s northern outpost along the eastern seaboard. The mission was overrun and destroyed in 1680 by raiders from South Carolina. For three centuries, Georgians searched unsuccessfully for…

Guest speaker, Dr. John Sherry, will be presenting Anthropology and Innovation in the Technology Industry on Monday, April 10th, at 3:00 pm at the Innovation District Presentation Room (100). This will be followed immediately after by a meet and greet with snacks provided. Dr. John Sherry holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona. He was the first anthropologist hired at Microsoft, and a few years later, at…

Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Ph.D., Dr. Habil is a Professor in Ethnology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor in Global Problems and International Relations, Vice-Director for Research Institute for African Studies and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Director of the International Center of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Full Professor in Ethnology, Russian State…

Hsain Ilahiane is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. He is author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis (2004); Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) (2017); and of The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations (2022).  Abstract:…

Dr. Merino's research areas include political ecology, international environmental governance, and indigenous rights. He earned his Ph.D. in Social and Policy Sciences and an M.Sc. in International Public Policy at the University of Bath (United Kingdom). Dr. Merino has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and Fellow at the Social Science Summer School of the Institute for Advanced Study of…

Georgia Initiative for Climate & Society Fall 2019 Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeological Sciences

Upcoming guest lecture of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory on "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?" Dr. Swing has confirmed the topic:  "I expect to talk about several specific studies at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station from some environmental monitoring of oil impacts on freshwater fishes to our half-million-image camera-trap study. I'll also make references to long-…

"Stuck Within the Caves?" Tackling the Lack of Upper Paleolithic Open Air Sites in Two European Micro Regions  

Material Evidence for the Application of Linear Time in the British Isles and North America. Join us on Friday, April 5 at 3:30 pm for visiting scholar, Dr. Harold Mytum.