Anthropology
Ph.D.
University of Florida
2002
Dr. Bugarin is an anthropologist who specializes in historical and Iron Age archaeology, cultural anthropology, and applied anthropology. As an archaeologist, she focuses on colonialism, trade and exchange, slavery through the post-Reconstruction period, gender and child material culture, and the impact of structural racism. As an applied and cultural anthropologist, she looks at environmental studies, appropriate technologies, heritage conservation, international development and poverty alleviation, and anti-racism initiatives and transformation in professional organizations. She has conducted fieldwork and research in South Africa, The Gambia in West Africa, and different parts of the United States.
Ph.D.
University of Florida
2002
M.A.
University of Florida
1996
B.A.
University of California, Berkeley
1991
Served as the elected USA Representative to the Assembly for the Seventh World Archaeological Congress, January 13-18, 2013, The Dead Sea, Jordan.
Recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship to attend the Salzburg Global Seminar, Session 501: “China in the 21stCentury: What Kind of World Power?” December 4-9, 2012, convened at Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria.
Presidential Appointed Chair of the Gender and Minority Affairs Committee (GMAC) of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Served as the elected USA Representative to the Assembly for the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Dublin, Ireland.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow, 1998-1999