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Dr. Lisa LeCount received a three-year National Science Foundation award for the project "Households and the Institutionalization of Ancient Maya Kingship at Actuncan, Belize." Her new excavations will begin next summer at the site of Actuncan, where she has conducted two previous seasons of excavations in residential mounds. Posted 01/5/10.
Dr. John Blitz received funding from the Arts & Sciences College Academy for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity to support a project entitled "Magnetometer Survey at Moundville Archaeological Park." Posted 01/5/10.
Dr. Toni Copeland (PhD 2008) has received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award and the University of Alabama Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation award for her Doctoral Dissertation, "Poverty and Sickness Among Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Cultural Models of Managing HIV/AIDS in the Absence of Biomedical Treatment." Posted 01/5/10.
Brooke Persons, Blakely Brooks, Catherine Buzney, Krista Garcia, Daniel LaDu, and Becky Read have been awarded a total of $2,226 for research and travel by the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate School. Posted 02/4/10.
Contratulations to Daniel LaDu for his winning paper for the 2010 Bob Work entitled "An Exploration of the Age of Mound Construction at Mazique (22AD502), A Late Prehistoric Mound Center in Adams County, Mississippi." Posted 02/5/10.
