格雷戈里卡获得富布赖特学者奖

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发布于2024年5月14日

米歇尔·马修斯

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生物博士. Lesley Gregoricka, professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at the 十大彩票网投平台, received a Fulbright U.S. 2024-25年度学者奖.

She will travel to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where she will examine prehistoric human skeletons dating to the Early Bronze Age in order to answer questions about how ancient communities successfully adapted to their surroundings during periods 社会和环境压力.

Gregoricka will be in Abu Dhabi from January through June of 2025. 她去过 UAE many times, but not yet to Abu Dhabi, and she has never had the luxury of spending 那么多时间.

“I am thrilled to be able to go and spend dedicated time conducting research on these 骨头，”她说. “Most of the research has to be done in the wintertime. 考古学家 don’t work in the summer in that region due to the heat.”

Her project will be hosted by the new Zayed National Museum.

The official title of her study is Mobility and Shifting Bronze Age Social and Environmental 阿联酋艾因绿洲的风景.

“Having five months to devote to that research is really huge,” she said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to delve into bioarchaeological research. 非常令人兴奋.”

In the oasis in the middle of the desert, “We see the continuity of at least 1,200 人们在那里住了很多年，”她说. “我将关注未来几年的社会变化 millennium and how they affected people from a biological perspective.”

She will study “what we see written on their bones,” to assess the changing mobility and diets of those who lived in 3200-1200 BCE as they transitioned to agriculture 经历了气候变化.

As a result of her Fulbright, Gregoricka hopes to publish on her findings and create new research programs to involve students with, she said, and she plans to continue 返回阿联酋.

A native of Michigan, Gregoricka has taught at South for the past 12 years. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s and Ph.D. 来自俄亥俄州立大学. She has been interested in studying bones since she was a child, she said, but “most kids grow out of it, and I never did.”

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