anthropology
May 10, 2021
May is Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi and Asian American Heritage Month. Throughout the month, The Daily will highlight members of the university community who are of Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi and Asian American heritage to celebrate their accomplishments as members of the campus community and…
April 27, 2021
The Anthropology Student Association will host a talk with Alisa Goldberg (CWR ‘90), a women’s health and family planning specialist, Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. EST. Goldberg will discuss her accomplishments as a physician, researcher and founder of numerous family planning…
April 06, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Sienna Craig, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Thursday, April 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Craig will present “Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New…
March 25, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host Patricia Sunderland, founding principal at Cultural Research and Analysis, for a presentation titled “Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design” Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Sunderland is a specialist in the…
March 22, 2021
The term vaccine hesitancy is frequently in the news these days, but what does it mean and why is it important to understand it as we continue the COVID-19 vaccine roll out? Janet McGrath, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, shared her…
February 18, 2021
The Anthropology Student Association (ASA) and Department of Anthropology will host a film watch party today (Feb. 18) to celebrate Anthropology Day. The film, The Anthropologist, will be streamed live on Zoom from 5:30 to 7 p.m. EST. The film will be followed by a student-led panel and informal…
January 22, 2021
Lihong Shi, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an op-ed published by Sixth Tone, a digital English publication in China. Her piece described the grief faced by Chinese parents who have lost their only child. Five years after China ended…
September 17, 2020
Under the auspices of the Office of the Provost’s Northstar Experiences, the international studies honor society, Sigma Iota Rho, and the International Studies Program will host an interactive workshop titled “Addressing Illegal Drug Use” Saturday, Sept. 26, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The session will be…
August 25, 2020
Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at APP (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct…
July 29, 2020
From trying to understand lung immunity in COVID-19 patients to recognizing the impact the pandemic has had on mental health, researchers at APP and affiliated health care systems have joined forces to expand and improve research on the virus in the community and beyond.…