The Department of Anthropology offers B.A. degrees in Anthropology and Maritime Studies, M.A. degrees in Anthropology and Historical Archaeology and five different minors. Students are involved in hands-on research across the disciplines of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology.
The UWF Department of Anthropology offers B.A. degrees in Anthropology and Maritime Studies, M.A. degrees in Anthropology and Historical Archaeology and five different minors. Students are involved in hands on research across the disciplines of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology.
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In 2022, Drs. Meredith Marten (left), Allysha Winburn (center), and Katie Miller Wolf (right) were awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD Research Grant to support their ongoing research, "Visualizing Structural Vulnerability: Skeletal and Dental Evidence of Embodied Social Marginalization from Anonymized CT Imagery." This project is also supported by an Atlas Research Grant from the Society of Forensic Anthropologists. Follow this and other faculty research here.
University of West Florida is the only institution in the nation offering a five-week forensic anthropology field school. The major goal of the five-week field school was to train students in standard forensic methods for the discovery, documentation, and recovery of human skeletal remains.
Faculty and students of the 2021 UWF Forensic Anthropology Field School share their experiences and insights of the five-week program.
The University of West Florida's Marine Services Center (MSC) provides diving platforms, research vessels and support staff for university sponsored projects involved in underwater research in and around the Florida Gulf Coast.
Marine Services Center
The Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida is an educational, research and service facility concerned with the prehistoric and historic archaeological resources of the northwest Florida region.
Archaeology Institute
The Florida Public Archaeology Network's mission is to promote and facilitate the conservation, study and public understanding of Florida's archaeological heritage through regional centers.
FPAN
Bourbon is American’s oldest spirit. When it comes to the history of bourbon in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, there is a trail of tall tales. Lost beneath the layers of sediment and storytelling, Nick Laracuente has spent a decade unearthing new facts and authentic stories behind the barrels that true bourbon enthusiasts and tourists traversing Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail long to hear.
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