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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.

  • Archaeological Survey digs up the past
    7/18/16

    The UB Reporter checks-in with members of Archaeological Survey regarding work undertaken this summer at the Harlem Road site in West Seneca.

  • Root named to Business First's "30 Under 30"
    6/21/16
    The weekly business newspaper, Buffalo Business First, has named Laurel Triscari Root to its 2016 list of 30 successful entrepreneurs under the age of thirty – and her picture was selected for the cover of the June 3 issue!
  • Stevens cited on "unlucky" Friday the 13th
    5/18/16

    In a recent article for TIME magazine, Anthropology professor Phillips Stevens explains how Friday the 13th is marked as unlucky to some.

  • Students showcase research at annual poster competition
    5/6/16

    On April 28, several Department of Anthropology undergradute students showcased their research projects to department faculty and the university community at the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.

  • AGSA places open call for papers for 2016 symposium
    10/19/15
    The Antropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) invites graduate students to submit paper and poster abstracts for the spring AGSA Convergence Symposium entitled, "Who’s Who and Whose Who? Examinations of Conflict and Cohesion Throughout History."  
  • Reed-Danahay editor of Palgrave Studies Series
    10/15/15
    Deborah Reed-Danahay has been appointed an editor of the new Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology book series to be published by Palgrave Macmillan.