College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Rachel Chapman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington. Join us on Friday, March 22nd from 5:00 – 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial 201 for her talk on “Austerity, Precarious Use and the Elusive AIDS Free Generation in Mozambique”.

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The Anthropological Student Association invites you to stop by their table on February 21 in the Tinkham Veale University Center, between 11:00AM - 2:00PM. Majors and minors can stop by for free American Anthropological Association Merchandise! Later, join us for a showing of Smoke Signals, a 1990's movie about modern Native-Americans coming to terms...

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Kristine Camper, M.A. Medical Anthropology & Global Health, was recently featured by the College of Arts and Sciences as part of their Student Spotlight series.

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Dr. Melissa Cefkin, Ph.D. leads the Human Centered Systems research division at the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley that examines the challenges of creating autonomous vehicles. Join us on Monday, February 11 from 5:00 – 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial 201 for her talk on “Anthropological Forays into the Future: Living with Autonomous Cars”.

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Graduate students Yunzhu Chen, Allison Schlosser, and Jing Wang successfully defended their dissertations. Congratulations to all!! Yunzhu Chen: "The Revival of "Visiting Marriage" - Family Change and Intergenerational Relations Among Matrilineal Tibetans in Southwestern China." Allison Schlosser: "Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the United States." Jing Wang:...

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