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Recent News
UCF College of Sciences Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
Russell's MA thesis, "Life After the Boat: Understanding the Experiences of Refugees in Sicily," won the College of Sciences Award at the University of Central Florida for Outstanding Master's Thesis for 2018.
Russell's research with refugees in Italy was recently featured in the UCF College of Sciences Newsletter.
Winner of AAA photo contest for inclusion in the 2017 AAA calendar.
The calendars are distributed at the Annual Meeting and the winning photos will be featured at the AAA booth at the meeting as well as in Anthropology News and online. The winning photograph is pictured below.
Remembering the Journey from Africa
Portopalo, Sicily, Italy July 2016
Unaccompanied minor refugees visit a "boat graveyard" in Sicily, where the Italian Coast Guard brings large defunct boats from which many migrants fleeing Africa from Tripoli were rescued. The boys sit on the same type of boat that brought them to Italy, where they spent days at sea and witnessed the death of their friends and other migrants. The psychologist at the center in which they live watches them as they stare out over the Mediterranean.
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