Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment

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Welcome to IASCE

The Institute provides the physical and intellectual infrastructure to create and disseminate transdisciplinary knowledge about culture and the environment through seminars and working groups.  We currently have four foci: 1) Evolutionary theory, both cultural and biological, 2) the Anthropocene, 3) Ancient diseases and nutrition, and 4) East African and Indian Ocean. We draw on faculty from across the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond including those in the sciences, humanities, and professional schools.    

What's New?

  1. Dr Antoinette Jackson featured on CBS News 60 Minutes

    Friday, December 12, 2022

  2. USF researchers use 3D technology to explore an ancient Greek city in Sicily

    Monday, August 10, 2022

  3. Digitizing Memories: The Virtualization of the Japanese-American Internment Camp Amache

    Friday, November 1, 2022

  4. University of South Florida researchers discover 45 unmarked cemeteries throughout Tampa Bay

  5. For Puerto Ricans five years after Hurricane Maria, no place feels like home

Spotlight on

Dr David Himmelgreen named Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Dr David Himmelgreen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities, has been named as new Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s most prestigious honors for academic research, for distinguished contributions to the field of anthropology, particularly for research and programs mitigating global food insecurity, especially for marginalized populations, and in relation to HIV/AIDS and nutritionally related diseases.