Assistant Professor of Anthropology Huatse Gyal and Associate Professor of Anthropology Mary Prendergast have received funding from the prestigious George R. Brown Teaching Grants to to enhance learning for undergraduate students.
Huatse Gyal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, will take students in the class, Indigenous Environmental Movements, on field trips to the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, an Indigenous-led initiative focused on restoring buffalo to their ancestral lands in south-central Texas. The grant will support several field trips over the next two years, Gyal said.
“Incorporating this vital aspect of land-based education would not have been financially feasible without the support of the Brown Teaching Grant,” he said.
Mary Prendergast, Associate Professor of Anthropology, received a grant to host guest speakers in a new course, Science of the Human Past. The course draws on the natural and physical sciences to understand the archaeological record.