Anthropology Chair’s Office: Dire Wolf Skull, Mammoth Toe, Other Oddities

New Anthropology Lab to Extract, Study Ancient DNA

Archaeologist Authors ‘Belvoir,’ the Story of a Former Annapolis-Area Plantation

MAA Student Isabelle Falls Elected to Provost Graduate Advisory Council

MAA/MHP Student, Emma Gruesbeck Publishes on the National Council for Public History's website

Alumni Zena Coronado's work published in American Journal of Public Health

In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Mark Leone

MAA/MHP Student, Emma Gruesbeck's Internship Work Published on National Trust for Historic Places Website

PhD student Fiona Steiwer received the Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award for 2025 at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Portland

PhD student Mary Efird have been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2025

The 1856 Project's second Annual Research Update

PhD Student Uddipta Roy Awarded the 2024 Sheila Cunnison Award

Dr. Hambrecht Published a New Article in Science Advances

MAA Student Intan Kumbayoni to participate in UN Fellowship this Spring!

Dr. Hambrecht and Dr. Lafrenz Samuels Received UMD Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards

Dr. Michael Paolisso Was Awarded the SfAA’s Sol Tax Award

PhD Student Fiona Steiwer Received the Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Prize for 2025

Dr. Paul Shackel Receives J.C. Harrington Award in Historical Archaeology

In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Mark Leone

Dr. L Jen Shaffer named CoPI on a 3 year grant

Dr. Andrea López honored at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration

Graduate Student Emma Satterfield Awarded SfAA Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award

Successful 34th Annual Colloquium Woods Hall Primary tabs

SfAA Meetings in Santa Fe

Dr. Matthew Thomann featured in the Maryland Global

MAA Student, Intan Kumbayoni, published two articles

MAA Student, Intan Kumbayoni, published two articles

Study on Impacts of Harm Reduction Vending Machines in the DC Area Led by Dr. Andrea López

Dr. Linda Rabben Receives Maryland Historical Trust’s Preservation Award for New Book

The 1856 Project's second Annual Research Update

PhD student Mary Efird have been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2025

PhD student Fiona Steiwer received the Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award for 2025 at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Portland

MAA/MHP Student, Emma Gruesbeck's Internship Work Published on National Trust for Historic Places Website

MAA & HISP student, Emma Gruesbeck, publishes her first article

Dr. Lopez Recognized for Expertise in New Study

Linda Rabben Presentations and Publications

Study on Impacts of Harm Reduction Vending Machines in the DC Area Led by Dr. Andrea López

Dr. Jen Shaffer ENST Faculty Affiliation

Dr. Linda Rabben Receives Maryland Historical Trust’s Preservation Award for New Book

MAA Student, Intan Kumbayoni, published two articles

PhD student Subhadeep Das presents his research

MAA Alumna Jessica Staggs and Dr. Jen Shaffer news article published

Dr. Matthew Thomann featured in the Maryland Global

SfAA Meetings in Santa Fe

Successful 34th Annual Colloquium

Megan Bailey, Ph.D, Publishes Book on L'Hermitage Plantation

Magda Mankel's Dissertation Research turned Visual Exhibit

Graduate Student Emma Satterfield Awarded SfAA Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award

Emeriti Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Michael Paolisso

Dr. Andrea López honored at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration

Congratulations Dr. Janet Chernela!

Dr. Paul Shackel published a new book titled The Ruined Anthracite

Dr. Stephen Brighton's field school hosts local elementary school

Dr. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels published a new book "Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration"

Silvana Montanola awarded a Summer Research Fellowship

Siv B. Lie named a 2023 Fellow at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study

Dr. Andrea Lopez receives the Exemplary Researcher Award

Dr. L Jen Shaffer named CoPI on a 3 year grant

UMD Names Dr. Susan Rivera as Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Nicole Ursin, Recent Dual-Degree Alumna, Plays Her Part in Addressing Controversial Monuments

Dr. Andrea López appointed to the MD Dept. of Health’s Standing Advisory Committee on Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention and Outreach Programs

Assistant Research Professor Adam Fracchia Featured in Maryland Today

Dr. Donald Linebaugh and Dr. Stefan Woehlke Featured in Maryland Today

Dr. Julie Schablitsky Featured in Maryland Today

Dr. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels Named Editor of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

The 2021 UMD Summer Field School Explores the Eighteenth-Century County Seat of Baltimore County

Dr. George Hambrecht’s Research on Faunal Remains of Cod Featured in Maryland Today

Dr. A. Lynn Bolles Honored with the 2021 Gender Equity Award by the American Anthropological Association

Dr. Andrea López Recipient of BSOS 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award

Nadine Dangerfield Recipient of BSOS 2021 Outstanding Advising and Administration Award

Dr. Christina Getrich Awarded 2021 Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies Award

Dr. Andrea López Awarded a Grant from BSOS's Dean's Research Initiative

Dr. Madeline Brown Awarded a Grant from BSOS's Dean's Research Initiative

Dr. Julie M. Schablitsky Finds Harriet Tubman’s Lost Maryland Home

Dr. Matthew Thomann Awarded Prestigious US Fulbright Scholar Award

Dr. George N. Hambrecht New Paper Published in Nature Featured in Maryland Today

Dr. Miguel Vilar Selected into UMD President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

A Living Memorial to COVID Victims: Dr. Adam Fracchia Helps Digitize D.C. Art Installation That Symbolized Virus Deaths

An Archaeological Dig in Urban Baltimore Reveals a Forgotten Past

Dr. Stephen A. Brighton Featured in Documentary Film on Irish Immigrant Community and Archaeology Project in Virginia

Crossing the Boundaries Between Academia and the Streets, Professor Joseph Richardson Jr. Seeks to Find a Way Out of Trauma for Young Black Men

Dr. Andrea López Awarded a Connection Grant by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Dr. Matthew Thomann Awarded National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD)-sponsored Loan Repayment Program (LRP)

UMD Expert on National Panel Recommending Reducing Violence Without Police

Surveying Historical Pandemics in the Midst of One: Anthropology Course Reimagined to Connect Lessons of Past With Present

Ellen Platts Recipient of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Student Research Award

Dr. Megan Springate (Ph.D. 2017) Recipient of John L. Cotter Award

Dr. Barbara Paca’s preservation work recognized by National Association of Secretaries of State

Ellen Platts Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Dr. George Hambrecht Awarded NSF Grant

Congratulations to Marilyn London for 20 Years of Service to the Department of Anthropology

SESYNC International Collaboration Addresses Vulture Poisoning in Southern Africa

Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima Recipients of the Solon T. Kimball Award by AAA

Welcome to the New Chair of Anthropology

Dr. Andrea Lopez Named Edward McKJohnson Jr. Endowed Fellow

UMD Working with Amazonian Indigenous People in the Time of COVID-19

Announcing Dr. Marlaina Martin: UMD Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

Maryland's Iconic Crab Industry and Their Struggles to Survive During COVID-19

Deal Island Peninsula Project Selected as a Winner of the 2019-2020 Praxis Award

Honoring the Memory of Dr. Nancie L. Gonzalez (1929-2020)

Dr. Julie Schablitsky Collaborates with MPT on a New Digital Series Titled, “A Maryland Mystery Lady”

Jessica Breitfeller Receives the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

New Book on Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism by Dr. Paul Shackel

Dr. Michael Paolisso Elected as the New SfAA President

Nipun Kottage Selected as a 2020 Rhodes Finalist

SfAA Award Named for Dr. Erve Chambers

Dr. Megan Springate Documents LGBTQ Heritage Sites for National Park Service

Expert Analysis by Dr. Janet Chernela on the Fires and Deforestation in the Amazon

Dr. Joseph Richardson Named the New Joel and Kim Feller Professor

Dr. Mark Leone Conferred the Title of Distinguished University Professor

Anthropological Argonauts

Alumni Profile: Jeremy Krones, BA'13

Research at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and James Madison's Montpelier

Collaboration through Conversation: Addressing Climate Change in the Chesapeake Bay

Alumna Profile: Sarah Ahmed (BA 2019)

Alumus Profile: Matthew Virta (MAA 1986)

Border Brokers -- Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics

How a 1897 Massacre of Pennsylvania Coal Miners Morphed From a Galvanizing Crisis to Forgotten History

Alumna Profile: Allison Chang (BA 2009)

Study Examines Why Older African Americans May Not Receive Needed HIV Care

Patchwork Problem: Research Examines Health Care Challenges for Rural Immigrants

Stopping Gun Violence: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs

Anthropology Alumni Panel

Dr. Michael Roller featured in Washington Post article discussing his work at Arlington National Cemetery

Undergraduate Student Profile: Hannah Dale

Dr. Judith Lynne Hanna Featured in Fall Issue of Terp Magazine

Dr. Andrea Lopez has been awarded a $375K grant by the Maryland Department of Health through the CDC Public Health Crisis Response funds

Alumnus Profile: David Colón-Cabrera (MAA 2010, PhD 2015)

Environment and Society Course Weekly Blog Posts

MAA Graduate Amelia Jamison Co-Authored Paper about Russian Twitter Bots and Vaccines

Forensic Aviation Archaeology Field School Continues Successful Partnership with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Graduate Student Profile: Alex Vindaz Cruz

Adriane Michaelis, PhD Candidate, Receives the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

Katie Boyle Featured in Terp Magazine

PhD Candidate Emilia Guevara Featured in UMD Fearless Faces Campaign

Hope Loiselle awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Undergraduate Nipun Kottage receives BSOS Summer Scholars Award to conduct research in Ghana

Marilyn London awarded the Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty

Dr. Judith Freidenberg Recognized for her Longstanding Commitment to Community Service

Dr. Christina Getrich Receives the 2018 Excellence in Mentorship Award

Undergraduate Student Profile: Ana Ortez-Rivera

Medical Anthropologists from UMD Featured in Anthropology News' Edition on Health and Well-Being

Alumnus Profile: Christopher Foster (MAA 2001)

2017 Praxis Award: Honorable Mentions from the Department of Anthropology

Climate Change Research on Deal Island

Researching DACA in Uncertain Times

Anthracite Heritage: Landscape, Memory and The Environment

Studying the Opioid Epidemic at Ground Level

Alumna Profile: Megan E. Springate (MAA 2015, PhD 2017)

Research on The Hill Neighborhood

Archaeological and Historic Preservation Survey of Eckley Miners’ Village

Alumna Profile: Mary Furlong Minkoff (PhD 2015)

Honoring Professor Emeritus Michael Agar

Nadine Dangerfield Recipient of the Graduate School's 2017 Outstanding Coordinator of Graduate Studies Award

Living with HIV as an Older Black Woman in Prince George’s County, Md.

Reflections from the Diversity Initiative Visit to NMAAHC

Alumna Profile: Katie Geddes (MAA 2016)

Erik Hanson Recipient of the 2017 BSOS Outstanding Advising and Administration Award

Sarah Noe and Emily Colón Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The Second Annual Global Health & Culture Lecture: A Tale of Two Global Healths

Undergraduate Student Profile: Moriah James

ANTH Alumni Make their Mark at National Park Service

Producing Knowledge for Action: A Multi-Perspective Conversation from Prince George’s County

Undergraduate Student Profile: Johanna McAlister

New Global Classroom Focusing on Indigenous Languages and Cultures

Dr. Sean Downey creates high-resolution multi-spectral maps of agricultural land use in the Toledo District, Belize using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

Dr. Joseph Richardson, Jr. Joins the Department of Anthropology

Dr. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman Selected as the Winner of the 2017 SHA GMAC Diversity Field School Competition

Alumna Profile: Kathryn Putsavage (BA 2001)

Speaking of Books: Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States

Searching for Answers 70 Years Later: New ANTH summer program to survey and investigate WWII aircraft crash site in Austria

Graduate Student Profile: Kevin Gibbons

Frederick Douglass and Wye House: Archaeology and African American Culture in Maryland

Building Resilience Through Collaboration: Deal Island Peninsula Project

Alumna Profile: Maria Grenchik (MAA 2012)

Release of the First National Study on LGBTQ History Edited by Megan Springate

Housing Conditions and Health of Immigrant Farmworkers in Maryland

Shirley Fiske awarded the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Practicing Anthropology

"Towards the Development of a Reentry Services Ecosystem (RSE)"

Judith Freidenberg Pens Book on Immigration in Prince George’s County, Maryland

Graduate Student Profile: Fabio Correa

New Research by Sean Downey and Randall Haas Uncovers Warning Signs for Stone Age Population Collapse

UMD Anthropologists Engage in New International, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Soils and Human Cultural Dynamics During the Holocene

The Health and Well-Being of Newly “DACAmented” Immigrant Young Adults in Maryland

Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas

Alumna Profile: Sabrina Shirazi (BA 2016)

The Archaeology of Ireland’s Early Modern Period: The Formation and Transformation of Irish identities and the Irish Diaspora

Dissertation Research on Resilience and Climate Change in the Chesapeake Bay Region

Graduate Student Profile: Adriane Michaelis

Health Care Access for Booming Immigrant Populations on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Sybil Paige Receives Outstanding Staff Award

UMD Department of Anthropology: Beyond the Classroom Video!

Emerging Global Threats in a Globalized World: A Discussion with NPR’s Jason Beaubien

Qualitative Methods in Action: Anthropology 606

Dr. Sean Downey Awarded NSF Career Grant to Study Sustainability of Traditional Farming Practice in Belize

"Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community"

New Dual Master’s Degree in Applied Anthropology and Historic Preservation

World Anthropology Day

William Stuart’s Retirement Announcement

Keeping Marylanders Safe from Fracking: Lessons from the UMD-led Marcellus Shale Public Health Study

Transnational Grandparenting and Well-being: A Comparative Analysis

Anthro+: Building Community Engagement and Social Equity in a Changing World

“Towards a City-wide Response to the African American Incarceration Epidemic”

Violence Against Women: Policy and Practice in Uganda — Promoting Justice within the Context of Patriarchy

The Archaeology of Ireland’s Early Modern Period

Winter Commencement 2015

Winter Commencement 2015

Winter Commencement 2015

J.C. Harrington Award in Historical Archaeology

Remaking America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Impact

Cultures without Borders

Honoring the Legacy of Suheil Bushrui

Heritage Lectures

Immigrant Health on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

Undergraduate Research

Welcome Reception

Professionalization Series

Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora and Modern Ireland

Department of Anthropology is Silver Certified!

Archaeology in Annapolis

Eckley Miner's Village Spotlight

BRAZIL: Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples

Maryland Day 2015: Department of Anthropology Activities and Anthropology Alumni Luncheon

Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples

Archaeology in Annapolis: Wye House

Dr. Shirley Fiske Discusses Research on Climate Change

Dr. Paul Shackel along with Graduate Students Michael Roller and Camille Westmont, Featured in American Archaeology

Dr. Shirley Fiske Announces the Report of the AAA Task Force on Climate Change

Dr. Ellis Kerley's Legacy

Summer Research Initiative to Increase Diversity

Editorship of Practicing Anthropology Returns to the University of Maryland

Joint University College Cork and University of Maryland Seminar on Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Connections

UMD Anthropology Around the Web

Anthropology Commencement Ceremony

PhD Candidate David Colón-Cabrera Wins Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award!

Upcoming Panel Discussion: Immigration to Latin America

Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Denise Brennan

CuSAG Public Forum, Retirement Celebration, and Establishment of UMD-HBCU Graduate Support Fund

Department of Anthropology Annual Maryland Day Alumni Lunch

Practicing Anthropologist Student Association's 2014 Anthro+ Conference

Department of Anthropology Colloquium

Advancing Health Through a Racial Lens

2015 Anthropology Career Boot Camp and Internship Program

Summer Courses and Field Schools 2014

Sustainability in the Anthropology Department

Voices of Social Change Presents "An Evening with Paul Farmer"

Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program Brown Bag Speaker Series

UMD Anthropology Presentations at SHA

UMD Anthropology Celebrates its 40th Anniversary!

Performance by Haitian Artist, Gina Athena Ulysse

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr. Judith Freidenberg

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr. Paul Shackel

International Populations Network of Prince George's County

GHEA Open Workshop

Department's first two graduating doctors

Dean's Medal

Summer Internship Opportunities

Immigration and the Election of 2012

Congratulations to our recent Predoctoral Fellowship Recipients

Uncovering an African-American Neighborhood's Long, Rich History

"Applying Anthropology: Challenging Perspectives / Creating Alternatives"

Archaeologists uncover town's past

Climate Change and Threatened Commuties: Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

Medical Anthropology Special Issue

Archaeologists look for Filipino relics in Annapolis

Albemarle Vineyard Turned Irish Heritage Excavation Site

Archeological Dig Confirms Irish Village in Greenwood

Recent Publications

Congratulations Anthropology 2012 Graduates!