Anthropology
Pathway to Paying Tribute
Completing a project initially conceived in 2019, a series of four trails and five bridges in the College Brook Ravine area have been named following traditional Abenaki naming conventions to honor the Indigenous people who first occupied the land on which UNH stands. Read MoreAlso in UNH Today...
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09/07/22Meeting Great Bay History
A prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant will extend the work of the Great Bay Archaeological Survey to 72 K-12 teachers. -
06/30/22Research Snapshot: Pastimes With a Balloon
“Eunice and Elinah are residents of an old age home run by an Afrikaner women’s charity in small town South Africa. After white-minority rule ended... -
06/06/22Frame of Mind
COLA faculty take snapshots to capture their research — and bring fascinating insights to the images. -
04/18/22Shining a Light on BIPOC History in N.H.
The Center for the Humanities at UNH has received two grants that will help advance projects related to celebrating the history of BIPOC populations...
Recent Stories
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12/15/21 - Unearthing Great Bay's PastResearchers have summarized their findings about Great Bay's social and ecological history in an online StoryMap. Read More -
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07/30/21 - Aging in America: Justice for All?The UNH Center for the Humanities announces the 2021–2022 Sidore Lecture Series. Read More -
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02/02/21 - Black History is American History“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice,” historian and author Carter... Read More -
01/25/21 - Excellence in CitationsForty-one current and emeritus UNH researchers are among the world's 100,000 most cited, according to a new study. Read More -
10/20/20 - A Clearer Vision of HistoryColumbus Day became a national holiday in 1937. It would be more than 50 years later — and 500 since Columbus arrived in America — before people came to officially recognize the... Read More -
05/13/20 - Privilege of Breaking into Earth HonoredMeghan Howey, professor of anthropology has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Fellows receive $200,000 to fund research and writing aimed at addressing some of the most... Read More -
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01/06/20 - Warming a Cold CaseUNH anthropology lecturer Amy Michael helped crack a cold case of more than a century, identifying the remains of outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless in Idaho. Read More