Adam Kersch, second-year master’s student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Anthropology, has been named a guest columnist with the Orlando Sentinel. His new article, which was published April 13, was about the migrant crisis taking place in Europe. Adam published a piece in the Orlando Sentinel in 2014 regarding his preliminary fieldwork analyzing the poor provision of […]
The Department of Anthropology is excited to announce several new classes for Spring 2016. ANT 3275.0001 Anthropological Perspectives on Refugees Tuesday/Thursday 1:30pm – 2:45pm Dr. Vance Geiger Since the United Nations Convention on Refugees to respond to post World War II refugees, people have continued to flee and claim refugee status. There have been […]
Dr. Vance Geiger, associate lecturer in anthropology at UCF, recently received an award that less than one percent of the faculty teaching anthropology courses across North America receive. The Center for Public Anthropology recognized Geiger for his hard work and dedication to the field by awarding him the Public Anthropology’s Franz Boas Global Citizenship Award . […]