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01 Jun
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Congratulations to Caleb Curry!

Congratulations to Caleb Curry for being awarded CWRU's Think Big Leadership Award and the Department of Anthropology's Newbell Niles and Ruth Neuer Puckett Award!   Caleb Curry (BA, May 2021) was awarded the Think Big Leadership Award for Modeling Commitment to Social Impact. He has worked to create community standards for...

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21 May
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Congratulations to Daniel Basil Hamilton!

Congratulations to PhD student, Daniel Basil Hamilton, for receiving the Ruth Barber Moon award from CWRU's School of Graduate Studies! This award is given to graduate students who demonstrate academic promise, leadership ability, and financial need.   They were also awarded a Social Justice Institute Grant Fellowship for their project, "Multiple...

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21 May
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Congratulations to Nico Kaplan!

Congratulations to Anthropology student, Nico Kaplan, for being awarded the Outstanding Global Health Award from CWRU's Master of Public Health program! This award is given annually to the student who exemplifies outstanding work in the Global Health concentration.

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21 May
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Congratulations to Rhea Kohli!

Congratulations to Anthropology student, Rhea Kohli, for being awarded the Scott Frank Student of the Year Award from CWRU's Master of Public Health program! This award is given to the MPH student who best represents the Master of Public Health as a scholar, advocate, and citizen of the program,...

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18 May
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Congratulations to Meghan Halley!

Meghan Halley, PhD, MPH (CWRU 2012, 2009) has been awarded a K01 Career Development Award from the National Human Genome Research Institute for her project titled, "Surfacing values in the economic evaluation of genome sequencing for diagnosis of children with rare diseases." This five-year award will support additional training...

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30 Apr
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Congratulations to Tae-Hee Kim!

Congratulations to Anthropology student, Tae-Hee Kim, who has been awarded a Peter Witt Scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences! The Peter Witt Scholarship Fund was established in 1960 to provide financial assistance to deserving students of The College of Arts and Sciences whose interests are in social...

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The Anthropology Department offers cutting edge training for both undergraduates and graduatesStudy with internationally recognized faculty Where will anthropology take you? Explore this interactive map of anthropology research conducted by faculty and PhD candidates at CWRU

The Anthropology Department offers cutting edge training for both undergraduates and graduates. Our programs include the traditional BA, MA/PhD programs, plus a BA/MA (Integrated Graduate Studies program in which undergraduate students can graduate with an MA in 4 years), as well as a 1-Year MA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health that includes a certificate in Global Health, and joint MA/MPH and PhD/MPH, MA/MD and PhD/MD degree programs.

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Job Posting: Visiting Assistant Professor

Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Medical Anthropology and Global Health The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in our program in medical anthropology and global health beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year. The...

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Upcoming Lecture: Dr. Sienna Craig

Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York City Sienna Craig, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College Thursday, April 22, 2021 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 923 9917 5296 Passcode: 599958 Event Flier For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a...

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Upcoming Plimpton Lecture: Dr. Patricia Sunderland

Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design Patricia Sunderland, Ph.D. Founding Principal, Cultural Research and Analysis Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 971 7812 8282 Password: 298228 Event Flier Dr. Sunderland is a specialist in the anthropological, ethnographic and cultural analysis of consumer worlds. Founder and president of Cultural Research...

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In memoriam: Robert Kingsley Puckett

The Department of Anthropology is saddened to report the death of Robert K. Puckett, a longtime friend of CWRU and the Anthropology Department. Mr. Puckett passed away on Nov 15, 2020 at the age of 89. In honoring his death, his family requested donations to the Newbell Niles and...

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Certificate in Global Health

Learn about the extraordinary success of Anthropology graduate students in obtaining national funding for their doctoral dissertation research.

Interactive Map of Anthropology Research Conducted by Faculty and PhD Candidates at Case Western Reserve University

Learn how to join Lambda Alpha, the CWRU Ohio Theta Chapter of the national honors society for students of Anthropology.

Interested in a career in Anthropology? American Anthropological Association (AAA) website, This Is Anthropology, may have helpful information.

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