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Interested in representing the College of Arts and Sciences? Applications are now open for the next group of CAS Student...
09/19/2026

Interested in representing the College of Arts and Sciences? Applications are now open for the next group of CAS Student Ambassadors! The college is looking for reliable student leaders who are enthusiastic about their majors and the college and enjoy connecting with others.
Applications are due Wednesday, October 7. Learn more and apply at tiny.utk.edu/CASambassadors

Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 23, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Andrés Leó...
09/19/2026

Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 23, 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,” exploring how the legacies of Cold War counterinsurgency continue to shape contemporary violence, political conflict, and state responses to crime in Central America. A reception will follow the lecture. We hope to see you there!

ANTH 429 students wrapped up another week of skeletal recovery. This past week, teams practiced scene documentation usin...
09/16/2026

ANTH 429 students wrapped up another week of skeletal recovery. This past week, teams practiced scene documentation using the transecting baseline method utilized by crime scene professionals. In the pictures, Team yellow works to draw and record the approximate location of their scene and record the location of evidence using the transecting baseline method, allowing them to produce an accurate diagram of the scene.

Join us for the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach (MSB) Regional Forensic Conference on November 14th and 15th. Conference regi...
09/15/2026

Join us for the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach (MSB) Regional Forensic Conference on November 14th and 15th. Conference registration and abstract submissions are now open! Abstracts are due by Friday, October 2nd. To register and/or submit an abstract click on the link below:

https://www.msbconference.org/

We hope to see you there!

Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 16, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Ventura R....
09/10/2026

Join us for the 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,” exploring how the physical and social legacies of war persist long after conflict ends, shaping human remains, collective memory, and the treatment of the dead. A reception will follow the lecture. We hope to see you there!

Students in Dr. Alison Damick’s ANTH 369: Geoarchaeology are gaining hands-on experience with geoarchaeological methods ...
09/08/2026

Students in Dr. Alison Damick’s ANTH 369: Geoarchaeology are gaining hands-on experience with geoarchaeological methods in the Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology, a UTK Core Facility. During class last week, students opened soil cores collected during Dr. Hannah Hoover’s summer fieldwork in coastal South Carolina. They learned how to prepare and describe the deposits preserved within the cores and used their observations to make preliminary interpretations about past environments and how they changed over time.

ANTH 429 students wrapped up another week of skeletal recovery. This past week, teams practiced scene documentation usi...
09/07/2026

ANTH 429 students wrapped up another week of skeletal recovery. This past week, teams practiced scene documentation using the triangulation method utilized by crime scene professionals. In the pictures, Team Purple works to draw and record the approximate location of their scene and record the location of evidence using the triangulation method, allowing them to produce an accurate diagram of the scene. In addition to sketching and mapping their scenes, students also gained practice screening for additional evidence.

ANTH 429 students wrap up their first skeletal recovery scenes of the fall semester! This senior-level class takes place...
08/29/2026

ANTH 429 students wrap up their first skeletal recovery scenes of the fall semester! This senior-level class takes place at the world-renowned Body Farm, known to these students as the Anthropology Research Facility (ARF). Throughout the semester, teams will practice scene documentation using the X-Y coordinate methods utilized by crime scene professionals.

In the pictures, Team Red works to draw and record the approximate location of their scene at the ARF, and records the location of evidence using the coordinate method, allowing them to produce an accurate diagram of the scene. Once the evidence is collected, students use hand trowels to search for additional evidence—an approach forensic professionals have borrowed from archaeology. Finally, class is over for this week!

Join us for the Anthropology Visiting Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 9, 3:30–5:00 PM in AAB 111! Dr. Paulina F. ...
08/28/2026

Join us for the 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,” exploring how war shaped American children’s institutions, their landscapes, and practices of socialization and assimilation. A reception will follow the lecture. 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. Dr. Taylor...
08/20/2026

Join us next Thursday, August 27, at 4:15pm in Strong Hall 104 for a guest lecture by Dr. Susan Paige Taylor. Dr. Taylor is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Waseda Univeristy in Tokyo, Japan. Her talk is entitled: Bridging digital humanities and anthropology: digital archive as ethnographic research method in Jimbocho, Tokyo.

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