Alumni Stories
Department stories
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Solving cold cases through advanced forensics techniques
UC Santa Cruz alumna Cristina Valencia earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2020 and is now the lab director for Astrea Forensics, a forensic service lab that applies state-of-the art and patented ancient DNA techniques and direct genome sequencing to identify human remains. The company’s mission is to solve cold cases, determining the identities of…
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Alec Apodaca: Ph.D. candidate studying Indigenous natural resource stewardship at UC Berkeley
My name is Alec Apodaca and I am currently a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, but I received my bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Cruz in 2017. My unique blend of experiences gathered through the labs and fieldwork at UCSC, specifically through Professor Schneider’s lab, put me in a position to be a top candidate…
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Amanda Hill: Cultural Resource Management (CRM) professional
In 2013 I was a transfer student to UCSC and initially I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do or even could do with a degree in anthropology. I wasn’t even considering archaeology because I thought only old rich white men were archaeologists. However, as I took more classes and made connections with the professors…
Campus stories
- Six alumni were honored on Oct. 25 at the Alumni Awards Celebration dinner. Learn more about each recipient and watch […]
- Lora Hollingsworth, Executive Director of Gift Planning , helps donors craft their philanthropic legacies
- One year after graduating from UCSC, Maxwell Ward (Cowell ’22, history of art and visual culture and anthropology) is pursuing […]
- Sarah Peelo (Ph.D. Anthropology ’09) looked to UC Santa Cruz as an institution beaming with women in leadership. Now company […]
- UC Santa Cruz alumna Danielle Dadiego (M.A. Anthropology, ’17; Ph.D. Anthropology, ’20) has worked in the archeology field for nearly […]