Join us on Friday, October 30, 11 AM–1 PM (Zoom)! Dr. Dinesh Paudel from Appalachian State University will present “The Himalayan Tragedy: Infrastructuralism, Disaster Capitalism and a New Geopolitical Conjuncture in Nepal.”
Register: tiny.utk.edu/nqDcK
Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 28, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Oscar Pedraza from King’s College London will present “Sculptures of Devastation, A Visual Genealogy of Violence Through the Environment.”
Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 21, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. ㅣLindsay Smith from Arizona State University will present “Deep Forensics: Addressing Layered Violence Through Community-led Technologies in Mexico.”
Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 14, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Nicholas Laluk from the University of California Berkeley will present “The Theodore Roosevelt Boarding School: Ndee (Apache) persistence and survivance.”
ANTH 429 students wrapped up their final session of skeletal recovery! The photos show team Orange wrapping up a productive day in the field.
Congratulations to UT Anthropology alumna Dr. Kate Spradley, Professor at Texas State University and director of OpID, on being named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow! She helps identify and repatriate migrants who died along the Texas-Mexico border. A truly well-deserved recognition!
Day one of the full final scenes for ANTH 429! Team Green was hard at work at the screen, while Team Blue assembled their field kit and gathered the equipment for their scene. The photos also show Team Blue working through their scene and wrapping up a productive day.
Want to represent the College of Arts and Sciences? CAS Student Ambassador applications are now open! Represent CAS, connect with the college community, and share your experience with others. Apply by Oct. 7: tiny.utk.edu/CASambassadors.
Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on September 23 (Wed), 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Andrés León from the University of Delaware will present “The War Never Ended: Central America and the Ghosts of Counterinsurgency, from the Cold War to the War on Crime.”
ANTH 429 students practiced scene documentation using the transecting baseline method utilized by crime scene professionals. Team yellow records the location of their scene and evidence using the transecting baseline method to produce an accurate diagram of the scene.
Join us for the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach (MSB) Regional Forensic Conference on 11/14-11/15. Registration and abstract submissions (msbconference.org/) are now open! Abstracts are due by Friday, October 2nd. We hope to see you there!
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Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 16, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Ventura R. Pérez from the University of Massachusetts Amherst will present “When War Does Not End: Bodies, Memory, and the Legacies of Violence.” We hope to see you there!
Students in Dr. Damick’s ANTH 369 (Geoarchaeology) gain hands-on experience with geoarchaeological methods in the Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology. Last week, they analyzed soil cores from coastal South Carolina to explore past environments and how they changed over time.
ANTH 429 students wrapped up another week of skeletal recovery, practicing scene documentation using the triangulation method. Team Purple mapped and recorded evidence locations to create an accurate scene diagram while also gaining hands-on experience screening for evidence.
ANTH 429 students wrapped up their first skeletal recovery scenes of the fall semester at the world-renowned Body Farm! Team Red practices crime scene documentation, evidence mapping, and archaeological recovery techniques used by forensic professionals.
Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 9, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Paulina F. Przystupa from the University of Washington will present “War and the American Children’s Institution.” We hope to see you there!
Join us next Thursday, August 27, at 4:15pm in Strong Hall 104 for a guest lecture by Dr. Susan Paige Taylor (postdoc at Waseda Univeristy, Tokyo, Japan). Topic is "Bridging digital humanities and anthropology: digital archive as ethnographic research method in Jimbocho, Tokyo."
Last Friday, Anthropology participated in College Connect to welcome incoming freshmen and introduce them to departments across the college! Ehsan Afshar, Hannah Hoover, and Joanne Devlin introduced students to cultural anthropology, archaeology, and forensic anthropology.
Hi Anthropology! Join us this Saturday, August 22, from 4–8 PM at Lakeshore Park to kick off the fall semester together! Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff are all welcome.
Bring a dish, a game, or just yourself. See you there! 🍽️🌳
