College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Lee Hoffer recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, "Understanding psylocibin ('magic mushrooms') in the context of the modern 'psychedelic renaissance'," received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences' "Expanding Horizons Initiative (EHI)." The interdisciplinary grant involves faculty from across the College, the School...

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Professor Jill Korbin, Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor of Anthropology, is retiring July 1, 2022, after 41 years at CWRU. In addition to serving as faculty in the anthropology department, Korbin served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for 18 years, where she helped steer the...

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Professor Melvyn C. Goldstein has been awarded the Association for Asian Studies' 2022 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize for his 2019 book: A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959  (University of California Press, 2019). The E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize...

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Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, on January 1, 2022 became the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, published by Oxford University Press. Among the top ten journals in evolutionary biology, EMPH "publishes original, rigorous applications of evolutionary science to...

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Professor Atwood Gaines has been appointed Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, effective 1st January 2022. Professor Gaines retired from the department on 1st July 2021 after 38 years on our faculty. Woody Gaines earned his MA, C.Phil and PhD in cultural anthropology and an MPH at UC Berkeley. He taught...

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