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Graduate Preview Weekend

Graduate Preview Weekend

Anthropology Faculty, Grad Students & Staff:
Please welcome prospective Anthropology grad students!

Join special events including:
Friday, 4:00-5:00pm Department Grand Slam Competition, HSSB 2001A
Friday, 5-6pm  Reception for all Anthropology Grad Students and Faculty, HSSB 2024
Saturday, 5-9pm Potluck Dinner at the UCSB Mosher Alumni Hall for all Anthropology Grad Students, Faculty and Staff

Grad Slam Competition

Graduate Preview Weekend: Grad Slam Competition

Students are competing in the department level event that feeds into the UCSB campus Grad Slam and then the UC-level Grad Slam.

Students are giving 3 minute research talks, and are being judged by 3 faculty members on a variety of criteria.

1st place gets $100
2nd/3rd place gets $50 each

Elizabeth Weigler awarded Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Elizabeth Weigler, Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology, was awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in 2015.  The Wenner-Gren Foundation has three major goals: to support significant and innovation anthropological research into humanity's biological and cultural origins, development, and variation; to foster the international community of research scholars in anthropology; and to provide leadership at the forefronts of the discipline.

Jessika Akmenkalns awarded National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate Jessika Akmenkalns, supervised by Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, will conduct research on how cross-cultural interactions and colonialism transformed cultural identities in hinterland communities in ancient Nubia (northern Sudan) between 2500 and 1000 BC.  Archaeology provides a unique window through which researchers and the general public alike can come to understand how colonialism and long-term struggles for political and economic power affect the daily lives of individuals and groups, both locally and on a broad regional scale.

Graduate Student Association (GSA) Excellence in Teaching Award 2015 Presented to Shelley LaMon

Award Recipient: Shelley LaMon Award Date: June 02, 2015

The Maya Forest Garden by Anabel Ford

A new book co-authored by a UCSB researcher and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology details how the Maya have farmed sustainably and survived for millennia.

All in the Family: Parasites and Fertility

Parasites and Fertility: Are they related?

Professor Steven Gaulin receives Distinguished Teaching Award for 2014-15

One of five campus awardees.