It’s a region that has a reputation of being the Wild West of Hawaii and it offers lessons for future generations about how to subsist in a changing climate.
Madeline Gunter Bassett will use funding from a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to spend three months surveying and mapping archaeological sites in southeastern Djibouti.
Large-scale environmental change began when our ancestors started agriculture, according to a recent paper in the journal "Science."
Sophomore Kat Baganski wins student paper contest at the 2019 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference with her paper “Bayesian Modelling of Meadowcroft Rockshelter’s Radiocarbon Sequence."
This fall, Dr. Mark Kostro will be joining the Longwood University faculty as a tenure track Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
This year's Sutlive Book Prize winner is Naor Ben-Yehoyada for his book The Mediterranean Incarnate.
The Department of Anthropology extends its congratulations to five new PhDs.
Phebe Meyers has won the Peter Wallenstein Undergraduate Student Paper Award
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01) announced on Jan. 29 that President Donald Trump has signed into law H.R. 984, the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017.
Jonathan Glasser, associate professor of anthropology at William & Mary, will be awarded the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award at Charter Day on Feb. 9.
Professor Jenny Kahn recently spoke to students and faculty in the Asian-Pacific Islander American Studies program
Faculty authors in William & Mary’s Department of Anthropology have notched a number of recent honors.
PhD student Lauren Bridges gives a shout out to W&M on local TV
Barbara J. King is the author of "Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat," a sampling of the characteristics of the animals eaten by humans and an exploration of some of the reasons why vegans, vegetarians and reducetarians resist the temptations of eating flesh.
Colleen Truskey '17 has been selected as the student speaker for Commencement on May 13, in Kaplan Arena.
Awards and prizes earned by Anthropology grad students have been adding up!
Nine students from Prof. S. Balasundaram's Cultural Anthropology class submitted winning essays in a national competition.
A new minor in native studies officially began with the opening of the spring semester.
A Q&A with Martin Gallivan on "The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake"
Did you know there are heirloom pigs, just like heirloom tomatoes? Once you’ve bitten into a pork chop from a “Real Pig,” like an Ossabaw Island Hog, you’ll know why.
Ph.D. student Summer Moore will be honored at the Graduate Research Symposium on March 19 for her work studying European cloth fragments recovered from Hawaii.
Anthropology Department Graduate Student, Summer Moore, will be awarded the Excellence in Scholarship for the 15th Annual Graduate Research Symposium for her research in Hawai’i.
Anthropology Department Graduate Student, Elizabeth Scholtz will be awarded the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Anthropology faculty member Dr. Jennifer Kahn was awarded the Rising Star Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education.
Two William & Mary professors have been recognized as 2016 recipients of Outstanding Faculty Awards by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Every year, the Alumni Association honors a select group of outstanding young faculty members.
Chancellor Professor of Anthropology Barbara J. King captivates an overflow audience in delivering the recent Tack Faculty Lecture on “Wild Grief/Untamed Love."
Scientist and author Barbara J. King will discuss the science of animal emotions at William & Mary’s Tack Faculty Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 28.
A summer archaeological field school conducted by Professor of Anthropology Martin Gallivan explored Kiskiack, the site of an Indian town that was once part of the chiefdom of Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas.
Lecture honors Dr. Sutlive at the same time as serving as a model for one way of approaching COLL 300.
Alli Neff has won the William and Mary Chapter of the NAACP faculty award
Jenna Carlson wins best Student Poster Presentation at 2015 SAA!
The award of $30,000 must be applied to defray the cost of graduate school.
Barbara J. King spoke at a recent Capitol Hill briefing, part of a panel seeking an ethics-based review of ongoing psychological research at a National Institutes of Health laboratory that uses monkeys in experiments.
Marley Brown of the Anthropology Department was recently feted at a symposium held in his honor at the annual Society for Historical Archaeology Conference in Seattle.
