Southern Futures Townsend Fellow and graduate student Cayla Colclasure is studying the prison labor that built the Western North Carolina Railroad, which weaves through Old Fort in McDowell County, North Carolina.
Francesca Sorbara is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, housed in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. She is the 2022 recipient of the Coffield Family Summer Research Fellowship, which has allowed her to resume field work after COVID-19 placed a pause on her research.
Former Weiss fellow Parag Saiki selected for international research fellowship.
Ph.D. candidate Lucía Isabel Stavig will receive her degree this weekend from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in cultural and medical anthropology—a dream she embarked on more than ten years ago.
Assistant professor Caela O’Connell and doctoral student Sierra Roark, members of the team, discuss the study and their research investigating how communities have responded to other challenges and hardships.
International students bring fresh perspectives to research, teaching and outreach at Carolina
Taylor Livingston, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, has received the 2016 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service by a Graduate or Professional Student.
Vincas Steponaitis, professor of anthropology within the UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences, has received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring.
