News at Adelphi

Recent history graduate Joseph D’Andrea ’25, MA ’26, interviewed Anagnostis P. Agelarakis, PhD, an internationally recognized bioarchaeologist of Greek antiquities, about the accuracy—and relevance—of the summer blockbuster The Odyssey.

A discovery made by Professor Brian Wygal, PhD, and Associate Professor Kathryn Krasinski, PhD, of the Department of Anthropology, about the arrival of migrants from Asia in the Americas is featured. The findings of this study were also syndicated several times, including by MSN and Yahoo.

Louise Geddes, PhD, professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, makes the case for traditional studies as an antidote to the downsides of our rapidly changing world.

A study involving Adelphi anthropology faculty members has helped tell the life story of a female woolly mammoth who died 14,000 years ago. Their research is shedding light on the intertwined lives of humans and mammoths as the mammoths became extinct after the last Ice Age.

Hanna Kim, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, has returned from a year away, studying and educating others about the Hindu community and religious group she has been researching for decades. Now she’s ready to complete a book on her work—and fuel her students’ passion for scholarship.

Melina Giakoumis '11, PhD, a conservation biologist, science communicator and mother who advocates for women in STEM, is building an app for citizen scientists to help track—and protect—declining Asterias sea stars.

For Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, professor in Adelphi's history department, archaeology is an endlessly generative practice.

New discoveries connect Indigenous Alaskans to their ancestors

Senior Honors College student MacKenzie Pina joined a prestigious dig at Sibiloi National Park in Kenya over the summer. Her experience there is an example of Adelphi's emphasis on undergraduate research. "I could not have been better introduced to fieldwork if I had asked," she said.

While some alumni continue in the field, others are putting the skills they've acquired in the program to use in a variety of careers.

For many people, the word archaeology conjures up visions of researchers digging up old things like ancient tools or pottery.

When Alyssa Booth, now in her senior year, was trying to decide on a major, she wasn't sure which one was right for her. She wanted to choose a major that could take her across the globe, so she decided on anthropology. Little did she know that she "picked the perfect field" and would spend this past August in Japan learning more about an indigenous Japanese people, the Ainu.