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Big congratulations to Taylor Walkup on receiving the Graduate Student Research Award! 🎉 Her research uses pXRF to examine heavy metal exposure in East TN, exploring how exposure patterns vary across life stages and populations to better understand their impacts on health.

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Anthropology undergraduate and graduate students graduating in May 2026, along with their families, joined us for the Department Commencement. Wishing all of our graduates great success and all the best in the exciting journeys ahead!

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Caroline Znachko, PhD, was recently spotlighted by the College of Arts and Sciences. Check out the link below to learn more about Caroline's research and experience at UTK. https://t.co/oXqLS9A00Z

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Congratulations to Perri Mahfouz on earning a 2026–27 Fulbright to Sweden! 🎉 She will study rural maternal health and midwifery care, building on her interdisciplinary work in medical anthropology and community health at UT Knoxville.

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Congrats to Elizabeth Tarulis on the 2026 VOLunteer Distinction Award! Her research examines how English colonists in 17C New England adopted tobacco smoking and began producing pipes. She’s off to Jamestown Rediscovery this June as a Site Supervisor.

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Cheers to the faculty, staff, and graduate students who made Anthropology shine in 2025–2026!

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Congrats to Caroline Znachko, recipient of the 2026 VOLunteer of Distinction award! As a forensic expert and bioarchaeologist, her work links structural violence to health disparities. She’s moving to Purdue for postdoc research on early-life adversity, teeth, and epigenetics.

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Undergraduate Anthropology Association (UAA) joined the Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (EEPS) Student Association for their first Fossil Fridays event. Thank you Heather and Matt for representing our group and helping make the event a success.
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Join us for a special discussion with Raja Swamy on capitalism, catastrophe, and the social dimensions of disaster. The event will take place on Thursday, May 1, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at Scripps Lab / COM 402G, hosted by the Center for Social Theory.

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Congratulations to our graduating seniors, Eliana Busch-Hebert, Katie Emler, Zoey Johnson, Hanna Mullan, Kendall Smith, and graduate students Elizabeth Tarulis and Caroline Znachko for being awarded the 2026 VOLunteer of Distinction award! https://t.co/Nh5E45iyEb

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Attend the Native American Student Association interest meeting on 4/28 at 5:45 pm in #114 of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) building! This is a student organization that supports Native American Studies and Indigenous students and communities on and off campus.

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UTK officially opened its new Forensic Anthropology Laboratory on April 17! This facility significantly increases the capacity of FAC, allowing for more efficient processing of forensic cases and strengthening collaborations with law enforcement and medical examiner agencies.

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Congratulations to Sophie Barker, a graduating senior, on receiving the Achievement Award in the College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities Division at EURēCA 2026!
Her presentation explores the potential of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in forensic applications. So proud of you!

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Congratulations to Gabby Puckett for earning 2nd place at ASUReS 2026!
Her presentation, “The Legacy Collection of Kheleifeh: Understanding the ASOR Archives,” highlights her work digitizing a 1938–40 collection from Tell el-Kheleifeh (Jordan) into an open-access database.

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Congratulations to Dr. Dawnie Steadman, recipient of the 2026 University of Tennessee Alumni Distinguished Service Professorship Award! Please join us in congratulating Dr. Steadman on this well-deserved achievement!

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Congratulations to Kasturi Ghatak on winning the ASK Graduate Poster Award at the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky conference!

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Our students and Forensic Anthropology Center personnel participated in Chalk Walk this morning. Check out their completed design (#86). Please consider supporting and voting for your favorite. https://t.co/vSImsbyBFu

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@UTK_Anth doctoral student Anna Cathrine Gibbs' archaeology research took her to Italy and the opening of an undisturbed tomb from the seventh century BCE.
Read more about her thrilled summer adventure: https://t.co/2krKzFYMM0
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One honors @UTK_Anth student and her faculty mentor finalized a project throughout 2025 to update the @McClungMuseum's permanent exhibition on Human Origins.
Learn more about their collaboration on this project: https://t.co/ZxH16214jL
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Researchers with UT’s Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) published a new study in "npj Complexity" that challenges conventional wisdom on how city size fuels innovation.
Find out what they learned: https://t.co/KvRJqzxbg3
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