August 2025
Lane graduated from the PhD Integrative Anthropological Sciences program
Shaw graduated from the MA Anthropology program
Crus Peña graduated from the BA Anthropology program
July 2025
Lane successfully defended their dissertation: "Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for the Estimation of Osteological Sex in Forensic Anthropology Utilizing Fuzzy Logic Principles"
April 2025
Shaw successfully defended their thesis: "Skeletal Embodiment of Structural Violence: Testing Application of the Weathering Hypothesis in Analyses of Identified Sex"
Bass was selected as a UCF Student Scholar Symposium winner for his presentation "Florida's Gifted Education Program: Exploring the Nexus Between Giftedness and Choice of College Major" based on his Honors Undergraduate Thesis
March 2025
Adams DM with co-authors Tallman S, Smith A, and Gruenthal-Rankin A published a piece in Sapiens "Fighting for Justice for the Dead - and the Living"
AABA Conference Presentations
Adams DM and Trent CM. User interactions regarding race, gender, and anthropology on YouTube.
Trent CM and Adams DM. Scientific distrust among QAnon community members following the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
February 2025
Trent received a 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award
Trent received a Trevor Colbourn Travel Endowment Fund Award for their PhD thesis research titled "A temporal study of the experience of childhood in ancient Anatolia"
AAFS Conference Presentations
Ferrell MJ, Schultz JJ, Adams DM. The application of decision trees and random forest modeling for combining morphological and metric variables of the skull for osteological sex estimation.
November 2024
Lane received the Graduate Dean's Dissertation Completion Fellowship
May 2024
Rose graduated from the MA Anthropology program
March 2024
Rose successfully defended their thesis: "Assessing the Manifestations of Marginalization in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Nonspecific and Occupational Stress Indicators at Karataş-Semayük"
AABA Conference Presentations
Rose CN and Adams DM. Trends in bioarchaeology: Marginalization studies from 1970 to 2023.
Pilloud MA, Haddow SD, Somel M, Knüsel C, Adams D, Larsen CS. Maintenance and mobility of Neolithic communities in Anatolia.
Adams DM and Trent CM. Cultural Marxism, anthropology, and social media.
February 2024
Rose received a 2024 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award
Shaw received a Trevor Colbourn Travel Endowment Fund Award for their MA thesis research titled "Skeletal Embodiment of Structural Violence: Testing Application of the Weathering Hypothesis in Transgender/Gender-Diverse Individuals"
AAFS Conference Presentations
Adams DM, Trent CM, Sharpless JK. ForensicAnthroTok: The depiction of forensic anthropology on TikTok.
Ferrell MJ, Schultz JJ, Adams DM. A test of the applicability of decision trees for sex estimation utilizing an expanded suite of morphological traits.
November 2023
AAA Conference Presentations:
Adams DM and Trent C. The relationship between anthropology and extremist TikTok.
ASOR Conference Presentations:
Trent C, Adams DM, Büyükkarakaya AM. An analysis of the lived experiences of the juveniles of Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük.
May 2023
Trent graduated from the MA Anthropology program
March 2023
AABA Conference Presentations:
Adams DM, Pilloud MA, Büyükkarakaya AM. An analysis of phenotypic diversity and mortuary treatment of females at Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük, Anatolia (c. 2700-2300 BCE).
Trent CM, Adams DM, Büyükkarakaya AM. The lived experiences of juveniles at Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük as identified through dental stress markers.
Trent was appointed the Editorial Assistant for the Dental Anthropology journal
Trent successfully defended their thesis: "Examining Childhood Lived Experience and Kinship in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Stress and Health of Juveniles at Karataş-Semayük"
Rose received a Trevor Colbourn Travel Endowment Fund Award for their MA thesis research titled "Assessing the Manifestations of Marginalization in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Nonspecific and Occupational Stress Indicators at Karataş-Semayük"
February 2023
AAFS Conference Presentations:
Lane KM, Schultz JJ, Adams DM. The utility of combining morphological and metric data into statistical frameworks for classification of osteological sex in the pubis.
Ferrell MJ, Schultz JJ, Adams DM. A content analysis of sex estimation research in the Journal of Forensic Sciences between 2000 and 2021.
Trent gave a Lunch & Learn talk to the UCF Department of Anthropology on their Master's thesis research titled: "Examining the Lived Experiences of Juveniles at Karataș-Semayük Through the Use of Dental Stress Indicators"
January 2023
Trent was accepted into the UCF Integrative Anthropological Sciences Ph.D. program
November 2022
Adams received the AIM High Group Impact Award with other UCF Department of Anthropology faculty and students for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in ANT2511: The Human Species
April 2022
Adams received a Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. Grant for the project "Use of Anthropology in Extremist Audiovisual Social Media Platforms"
March 2022
AABA Conference Presentations:
Adams DM, Ralston C, McGehee K. Readability of bioanthropological journal and conference abstracts and the implications on science communication.
Lane K, Adams DM. Deconstructing biological sex by fuzzifying osteological sex: Implications for theoretically-informed practice. Invited podium presentation in Advances and Challenges in the Identification of Sex and Gender in Human Osteological Contexts, co-chairs: Ashley C. Smith and Jenna Schall, symposium.
SAA Conference Presentations
Toyne JM, Adams DM, Carić M, Novak M. Dietary patterns can be “fuzzy”: An exploration of stable isotope data from Late Avar Period Šarengrad, Croatia, to explore the complexity of community identity. Invited podium presentation in Unstable Bodies: Integrating Chemical Isotopes and Critical Theory in Bioarchaeology symposium.
February 2022
Maier C, Craig A, Adams DM. Language use in ancestry estimation and research recognized as a noteworthy article by the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
Adams received an ARIT Fellowship for the project "Biological Diversity and Community Structure at Early Bronze Age Karataș-Semayük"