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Stay connected to the latest research, achievements and events in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. From fieldwork discoveries to faculty publications and community partnerships, this is where you can see our work in action. Explore stories to learn how the department is asking meaningful questions and making an impact at UB and beyond.

  • Anthropology graduate students receive fellowships, awards
    4/10/18

    The Department of Anthropology congratulates those graduate students who were recently named fellowship and research grant recipients.

  • Museum Management course makes community connection
    3/23/18

    Students in the department's Museum Management course recently assisted local elementary students on creating artisitic interpretations of objects from the Cravens Collection at UB's Anderson Gallery.

  • Stevens cited on the beliefs behind common superstitions
    3/1/18
    Phillips Stevens, Jr.,  Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, was recently interviewed about the religious and cultural beliefs behind several common superstitions. The video interview may be accessed at Business Insider.
  • Anthropology faculty participate in reinterment of poorhouse remains
    10/10/17

    The Buffalo News interviews Anthropology faculty Dr. Douglas Perrelli and Dr. Joyce Sirianni about their work in the exhumation and upcoming reinterment of the individuals buried at the former Erie County Almshouse site located at what is now the university's South Campus.

  • Archaeological Survey sets out to find first US gas well
    9/18/17
    The Buffalo News published a story covering members of UB's Archaeological Survey who recently spent two days in Fredonia, NY, working to uncover evidence of the first natural gas well in the United States. Although the team of archaeologists did not make any large discoveries, according to Archaeological Survey director, Dr. Douglas Perrelli, he expects to return to the site before winter and would like to bring back a larger field crew to conduct excavations next summer.
  • Von Cramon-Taubadel comments on farming and skull shape study
    8/16/17

    Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel provides a commentary in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in response to a new study theorizing how an agricultural-based diet effected skull morphology.