Student Stories
Department stories
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Boluwaji David Ajayi: a passion for research and teaching
Boluwaji David Ajayi, originally from Nigeria, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. His research interest primarily focuses on the nature of social complexities that engendered everyday life of settlements on the margins of early cities and empires in the Yoruba-Edo region of Southwestern Nigeria from the 18th to 20th centuries. He is…
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Student Stories: How an Undergraduate Student Became a Leader in our Department
Zoë Shmidt (she/her) is a fifth-year transfer student from Los Angeles. She is interested in biological and biocultural anthropology with a focus on what can be learned from a genetic perspective using paleogenomic methodology. Describe your involvement in the Anthropology Department. What do you do directly or indirectly? When did you get started? My involvement…
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Student Stories: Experience of an Earth Sciences/Anthropology Combined Major
Alyssa Hermelin is a transfer student and 2024 graduate in the Earth Sciences/Anthropology Combined Major. The Earth Sciences/Anthropology combined major is intended for students with interests in Earth sciences and the laboratory-based aspect of anthropology. Students interested in this major mostly work with Earth & Planetary Sciences Advising to discuss major requirements and plan out…
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Student Stories: Transforming Landscapes, Transforming Futures
For many undergraduate students in the Anthropology Department at UCSC, internships provide a wonderful opportunity to explore new interests and engage with anthropology outside of the classroom setting. As part of this year’s Chronicle, I had the chance to sit down and talk virtually with Kahena Wilhite. Kahena Wilhite (she/her) is a graduating senior interested…
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Isabella Kressman: Applying anthropological understandings to mission history
An anthropology field methods course led anthropology student Isabella Kressman to become a historic interpreter for the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park. She applied her anthropology training and perspective from living on the Suquamish reservation to educate visitors on truths about a painful period of history.
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John McClure: Award-winning research on climate vulnerability
Anthropology student John McClure’s senior thesis won the Social Sciences Division Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. His work was inspired by a senior seminar class on environmental anthropology led by Professor Andrew Mathews.
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Jessie Flynn: Studying abroad in Moquegua, Peru
Jessie Flynn, an anthropology student who specializes in archaeology of the Americas, studied abroad for six weeks, learning field lab analysis for archaeological excavations and helping to log data for an excavation site.
Campus stories
- Undergraduate Elyse Venerable won the Chancellor's Award and Dean's Award for her research using strontium isotope analysis to uncover the […]
- Maxwell Ward always wanted to be an archeologist, following tales of adventure like the search for the tomb of Genghis […]
- The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded 2021-22 American Fellowships to three scholars at UC Santa Cruz who […]
- Archaeological researchers from UC Santa Cruz are among the volunteers searching through rubble for homeowners who lost their loved ones’ […]
- J. Cameron Monroe, associate professor of anthropology, took four Howard University undergraduates on an archaeological expedition to Haiti and St. […]
- Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was […]
- Three UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidates have been awarded 2016-2017 fellowships from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
- When Katie Slocum, an anthropology major at UC Santa Cruz, got her first espresso fix at Verve, the specialty Santa […]
- The sport and the camaraderie of teammates taught student Kaitlyne Fisher about believing in herself and coping with adversity.