New College Archaeology Professor Receives Grant
Professor Uzi Baram Receives FHC/NEH Research Grant. Uzi Baram, professor of anthropology at New College of Florida, received a $15,000 grant for a research project, “Tragedy and Survival: Bicentennial of the Southward Migration of Black Seminoles on the Florida Gulf Coast.” The “Tragedy and Survival” project stems from Baram’s successful public anthropology program “Looking for Angola,” which successfully identified traces of the 17th-century Angola community of escaped slaves, known as maroons, near Manatee Mineral Springs. Funding was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Baram will work with Digital […]
Sunday, July 26, 2015
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