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Department News and Events

New Faculty. Jill Doerner, a specialist in criminology and criminal justice, is new on campus this fall. Jill is finishing her Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and has research interests in sentencing patterns in the federal court system, especially the effects of race, gender, and class on disparate sentences. Welcome Jill!

Carlos Garcia-Quijano, a coastal ethnologist wth a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, will join our program in Fall 2009. Carlos' interests lie in environmental anthropology, as well as human ecology and maritime anthropology. We're eager to have Carlos on board.

URI Archaeology Group. Kris Bovy has helped to organize and launch the URI Archaeology Group. URIAG brings together arachaelogists from a variety of disciplines in an effort to coordinate course offerings and research opportunities. For more information, visit the URIAG site.