05/12/2026
Congratulations to Emmett Cantkier, who is graduating this semester with his BA from GSU Anthropology and a minor from the Georgia State University Department of History. Emmett is a recipient of our Robert L. Blakely Endowed Scholarship in Anthropology. He was part of the Humanities Inclusivity Program through the The CASA at GSU, held a Mellon Foundation-funded fellowship, served as a research assistant in the Phoenix Project Lab (working with our MARTA Collection), and completed an Honors thesis (“From Bottling Plant to Buried Trash: The Archaeology of Atlanta’s Soft Drink Industry,” supervised by Dr. Jeffrey Glover. He has presented conference papers at several academic conferences locally and around the U.S. He did a summer course through the University of St. Andrews that involved excavation at a 12th century monastery. Emmett was also Vice President of our Anthropology Club and a DJ and Promotions Director for GSU’s radio station, WRAS Album 88.
This fall, Emmet will start the Master’s program in Historical Archaeology at the University of Iceland! We’re excited to continue to follow his academic journey!
Emmett shared these great photos, including one of him standing in front of the ruins of Sparks Hall, the former home of our department, and one of him in our Archaeology Lab in Dahlberg Hall.
