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Weil Travel Award MAAC Student Paper Competitions and Poster Award Awards Club Achaeology Lab Hours for Extra Credit or Volunteers Field Schools and Opportunities Prospective Students About at UD Visit Us Resources Professional Associations Blogs Online Sites AnthroNotes Digital Repository Alumni Alumni Profiles Encounters with Milk students Richard Leakey, World-renowned paleoanthropologist Conversing with University of Delaware students who met with him in Munroe Hall. Exploring the future of anthropology Students visit AAA offices and participate in WAPA career mentoring event in Washington, DC Coleman Farm Project Collaborating with the Archaeological Society of Delaware (ASD) Archaeology in the Field - ANTH424 University of DE & University of MD students excavate at Northhampton Iron Furnace Conserving ceramic bowl from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon Riley Thomas 2018 internship at National Museum of Natural History conservation lab No content found No content found More Events In Memoriam: Daniel P. Biebuyck Daniel P. Biebuyck, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of and the Humanities at the University of Delaware, died on Dec. 31, 2019, in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 94. Read More Support for scholarship The Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center has awarded grants to four intellectually ambitious projects as the center marks its 10th anniversary. Read More The Real Ebola “Emergency” Georgina Ramsay, anthropologist at UD, experiences the declaration of an ebola emergency while conducting research in the Congo. Read More These Feet are Made for Walking How animals evolve traits is influenced by the characteristics of their ancestors. But what exactly was the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees like? Read More More News No content found CONNECT George Galasso National Trade Director for Grain, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA Mr. Galasso is an agriculturalist responsible for U.S. Government plant health policy relating to international trade in grain, including cereals, pulses and oilseeds, since 2008. He also represents U.S. interests to the North American Plant Protection Organization and the International Plant Protection Convention (FAO). His duties focus on promoting safe trade in grains through extensive collaboration with industry, researchers, foreign government agencies, and international plant protection organizations. He previously served as the Regional Vice President, Europe and North Africa for the trade association US Wheat Associates (USW), posted in The Hague, Netherlands from 2004-08. He also served as the USW Regional Director in North Africa, based in Casablanca, Morocco from 1995-2004, and Assistant Regional Director for South America, based in Santiago, Chile from 1991-1995. Prior to USW, Mr. Galasso was an agricultural economist with the Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA in Washington, DC from 1988-1991, and worked as a Peace Corps agricultural economist in the Marketing and Credit Division of the Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture, based in Kingston from1985-87. Mr. Galasso has a B.A. degree in and Geology from the University of Delaware and holds a Master's degree from Michigan State University in Agricultural Economics. At UD he undertook research correlating LandSat digital imaging with prehistoric artifact distribution in the Murderkill, Mispillion and St. Jones watersheds of Delaware. Read More Jarrett Zigon William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Professor of ​Dr. Zigon is the William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Professor of at the University of Virgina. His specialities include of moralities and ethics; the intertwining of humans, worlds and situations; political activity and theory; the intersection of anthropology and philosophy; critical hermeneutics; drug war. To read more, visit his personal site www.anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jz8h Read More Magdalena Stawkowski Teaching Scholar ​Her work examines how the changing visions of militarized spaces in and around the Soviet-era Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site have produced particular forms of social, political, and economic exclusion in the region. Stawkowski’s ethnographic research among rural communities in and around Semipalatinsk is an account of the local understandings of health and practices about illness. Specifically, she asks what compels people to live on radiation-infected land? How individuals living in and around the nuclear test site have come to see themselves as biologically evolved to survive in this environment? Stawkowski is currently working on a book manuscript based on her fieldwork. For more information, visit her page at UNC's Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at www.cseees.unc.edu/current-fellows/stawkowski-magdalena/ Read More Meghan Howey Chair and Associate Professor, , University of New Hamphsire ​Meghan C.L. Howey is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in Native North America. She received her B.A. (2000) from the University of Delaware and her M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Michigan. She has conducted research across North America, including the Southwest, Southeast, and Great Lakes. Her major research project has been on Native American regional organization in the Upper Great Lakes in the period preceding European Contact, exploring how tribal communities constructed and used ceremonial monument centers to facilitate economic, social, and ideological interaction in this period. She has used Geographic Information Systems (GIS), ethnohistoric materials, and collaboration with local tribal communities to enhance her research. Her theoretical and methodological interests include non-hierarchical societies, ritual practices, landscape theory, and spatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems. Dr Howey has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and published her book titled Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 in 2012. Dr Howey is James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Professor of the Humanities from fall 2016 through spring 2021. During this time she will focus on her project “A Deep Time, Multi-Archive Narrative of the Anthropocene in the Great Bay ” . Read More Sophiana Leto Development Associate, Volunteers & Major Gifts, Montclair Art Museum Sophiana Leto graduated from the University of Delaware...