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The Department of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University strives to provide the very best undergraduate and graduate programs. The Department stresses an open, critical, and diverse intellectual forum for examining...

 
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Sarah Crawford
Sarah Crawford
Anthropology Graduate

On May 30th, anthropology graduate student Sarah Crawford received notification of a research award from Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. The Sigma Xi grant program has a highly competitive application process and approximately... Read More

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Mary M. Cameron
Mary M. Cameron
Professor

Mary M. Cameron first encountered an Ayurvedic medical practice in remote, western Nepal in 1978. In Three Fruits, Cameron traces Ayurvedic medical practices from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors... Read More

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Meredith Ellis
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor Meredith Ellis of the Anthropology department has had her first book, Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives (Archaeology of Childhood) has been published. This... Read More

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Meredith Ellis
Dr. Meredith Ellis is featured on 'In Conversation' podcast with Dean Michael J. Horswell
December 17, 2019

Episode Title: Archaeology is So Much More, Meredith A. B. Ellis, Ph.D.

Archaeological Cultural Heritage Project
FAU Anthropology professors awarded an Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant from the U.S. Department of State
September 06, 2018

FAU Anthropology professors Valentina Martinez, as Principal Investigator, and Michael Harris (co-PI) have been awarded an Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant from the U.S. Department of State for the project...

Meredith Ellis
Assistant Professor Meredith Ellis has published her second book
September 05, 2018

Assistant Professor Meredith Ellis has published her second book, The Children of Spring Street: The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation (2019, Springer Press, Bioarchaeology and Social...

 
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Florida Public Archaelogy Network (FPAN) Southeast/ Southwest Region at FAU

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Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation

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Gombe Stream Research Centre