Congratulations to Professor Melvyn Goldstein on being named a Distinguished University Professor! This is a much deserved honor for his exemplary career. Congratulations!
*Click here to read the announcement in the Case Daily.
Congratulations to our Spring 2020 undergraduate award recipients!
The Callender Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in anthropology:
Emma McCann
The Jonathan F. Plimpton Award to a graduating senior for outstanding achievement in anthropology:
Ioanna Skubbas
The Newbell Niles and Ruth Neuer Puckett Award to a graduating senior for outstanding achievement in anthropology:
Timothy Fry
Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design
Patricia Sunderland, Ph.D.
*this lecture has been canceled*
April 1, 2020
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom
Dr. Sunderland is a specialist in the anthropological, ethnographic and cultural analysis of consumer worlds. Founder and president of Cultural Research & Analysis, she is...
Community-Engaged Ethnography on Race and Health: Findings from ARCHES I AmeRicans' Conceptions of Health Equity Study
Colleen Walsh, Ph.D.
February 13, 2020
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Mather Memorial, Room 201
Dr. Walsh is an alumna of CWRU. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in urban health. She is currently Co-PI for ARCHES,...
From Siberia Speaks the World: Ethnographic Insights in Times of Change
Susan Crate, Ph.D.
January 27, 2020
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Mather Memorial, Room 201
Dr. Susan A. Crate is an environmental and cognitive anthropologist on the forefront of anthropological research on climate change. Her research on local experiences and understandings of climate...
Rethinking Diabetes: Considerations of Hunger, Trauma, Precarity, and Insulin
Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Ph.D., MPH
January 23, 2020
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom
Dr. Emily Mendenhall received the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2017 for her ethnographic work on the...