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Katie Boyle’s Pictures Selected as Winners for 2020 SHA/ACUA Contest
Three pictures submitted by Katie Boyle, MAA/MHP graduate, were awarded 1st and 2nd place in different categories for the 2020 SHA/ACUA Photo Contest and People's Choice Award Competition held during the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference in Boston, MA. Congratulations, Katie!
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Elizabeth McCague Selected as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Elizabeth McCague has been selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for AY 2019-20. Congratulations, Liz!
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Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels Awarded ISRCA
Dr. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels was awarded the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards (ISRCA) by the Division of Research at UMD for her proposal "Anthropogenic: The Cultural Heritage of Climate Change". Congratulations, Dr. Lafrenz Samuels!
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Student & Alumni Profiles
William Wical, PhD Student
William Wical is a doctoral student in Anthropology with a research concentration in health. His research seeks to understand the presentation of traumatic stress disorders as products of historical, social, and cultural factors.
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Elena Sesma, BA '11
Dr. Elena Sesma is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. She graduated from the University of Maryland College Park in 2011, with a BA in Anthropology and Women’s Studies. She holds an MA in Anthropology and earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2019.
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Sarah Ahmed, BA' 19
Sarah Ahmed graduated with her B.A. in spring of 2019, with a concentration in sociocultural anthropology and a minor in Nonprofit Leadership and Social Innovation.
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Jeremy Krones, BA '13
Jeremy D. Krones graduated with a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology in 2013 with a focus on ecological anthropology, a topic he continues to study.
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Matthew Virta, MAA' 86
Matthew Virta has worked as an archeologist and cultural resources professional for the National Park Service (NPS) for over 30 years. Currently he is the Cultural Resources Program Manager for th
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Allison Chang, BA' 09
Allison Chang received her BA in Sociocultural Anthropology in 2009, and went on to Columbia University's Teachers College for an MA in Anthropology of Education.
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