News & Events

Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 (University of Oklahoma Press) is the first systematic investigation of northern Great Lakes earthworks.

Professor Eleanor Harrison-Buck, assistant professor of archaeology, has edited the book Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice: Case Studies from Ancient Mesoamerica.

Three Anthropology Juniors were awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships from the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research to conduct independent research this summer:

Visit the first dig on UNH's Campus

Anthropology Majors present at the 13th annual URC Undergraduate Research Conference at UNH

The film will show at 6:10pm on Thursday, October 13 in Horton 207.  A discussion with Georgina Lightning will follow afterwards.

Anthropology Major John DeGennaro spent last summer in Belize on his first archaeological field research trip.  While he was there, he helped identify the homestead of a prominent U.S. Confederate soldier from Alabama who fled the country after the Civil War.

Undergraduate Spent Summer Researching New Orleans Community

Sara Withers joins the Anthropology faculty

The Rebecca Lang Memorial Fund Award is given annually to one or more anthropology majors who plan to do Archaeological and/or Anthropological Field Work during the summer.  

Anthropology Majors Gideon Cohn, Emma Prichard, Caitlin Rivers, Karilyn Sheldon, Joshua Richards and Ashley Brizzard will present at the 2011 Undergraduate Research Conference on Friday, April 29. 

UNH is offering a new summer study abroad program in Belize! Come to an informational session on Wednesday, April 7, at 12:45 p.m. in the Archaeology Lab in G16 Huddleston Hall. Program application deadline is April 25.

Amanda Dibble, '10, turned her research project into a residency.

Svetlana Peshkova, assistant professor of anthropology, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

A lecture on Native American history in New Hampshire by Archaeologist Dr. Robert Goodby, Franklin Pierce University.

Talk by Chief Paul Pouliot (Cowawuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki) on contemporary political and environmental issues facing Native American people in New Hampshire, including the proposed Northern pass power line.

Matthew Gallon joins the Anthropology faculty

The Department of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire is launching SPECTRUM, an online journal for publishing UNH undergraduate student work.

Edgar Martin del Campo joins the Anthropology Faculty

Dr. Meghan Howey, Assistant Prof. of Archaeology and Dr. Sioban Senier, Associate Prof. of English are co-organizing the conference First Nations, Lasting Nations: Community and University Partnerships in Idigenous  New England.  The conference is scheduled for September 17 and 18, 2010.

Anthropology major Samantha Savory work on an archaeological dig in Spain.

Write an essay or create a video on why the study of anthropology is important to today's world.  
1st Place $750
2nd Place $550
3rd Place $350

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2010

Th e following Anthropology Majors are presenting at the Undergraduate Research Conference April 23:  Justin Linxweiler, Tiffany Black, Amanda Dibble, Siobhan Whalen, and Erin Thesing. 

On April 29 the Anthropology Department and the Center for the Humanities will be screening an Award Winning Film "In The Light of Reverence" and afterwards there will be a discussion with the film-maker Prof. Malinda Maynor Lowery.

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Dr. Margot Badran will deliver the 2010 Holden Lecture in the College of Liberal Arts entitled, Islamic Feminism Today. 12:40 p.m., MUB 334/336. 

The film Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think will premiere on March 23, 12:40, MUB 332.

Satoru Murata joins the Anthropology faculty

November 12, 2009 Anthropology Majors Tiffany Black and Justin Linxweiler awarded UROP funding

Erin Thesing, a senior majoring in anthropology at the University of New Hampshire, has been selected for a national role as an Organizing for America volunteer on a small panel of judges that includes top celebrities, entertainers and leaders of the Democratic National Committee.

Svetlana Peshkova joins the Anthropology faculty

The Rebecca Lang Memorial Award is given annually to one or more anthropology majors who plan to do archaeological and/or anthropological field work during the summer.  The 2009 award winners are:

Anthropology Majors Amanda Dibble, Erin Thesing and Tiffany Black received awards

Part of the Speaking Materially: A Global Archaeology Lecture Series

Anthropology student Majors Lauren McDonough and Zach Swick and Anthropology Minor Robin Sherman will participate this Friday, April 24 in the 2009 UNH Undergraduate Research Conference

Part of the Speaking Materially: A Global Archaeology Lecture Series

Are you an Anthropology Major? Are you doing archaeological and/or field work this summer? If so, you should consider applying for this award.

Come see the new archaeology lab!

View Photos from the Open House, posted March 11.

Part of the Speaking Materially: A Global Archaeology Lecture Series