Faculty News Archives - Page 3 of 5 - Department of Anthropology

New book co-authored by Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand available September 2017

April 25, 2024

Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand has a co-authored book, Health, Culture, and Society: Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications, that will be published in September by Palgrave Macmillan Publishing. This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent...

New book by Dr. Lihong Shi available August 2017

April 25, 2024

Dr. Lihong Shi has a new book, Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China, that will be published in August by Stanford University Press. China’s patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China’s birth-planning policy, this has led to a...

Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand elected Chair of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction

April 25, 2024

Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand was elected Chair of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR), the main international body of scholars with research focus on issues of human reproduction. CAR is the largest special interest group under the American Anthropological Association with an active membership of nearly 300 scholars world-wide.

Janet McGrath received the AARG 2016 Moher Downing Distinguished Service Award

April 25, 2024

At this years Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Janet McGrath received the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (AARG) 2016 Moher Downing Distinguished Service Award. It was awarded to Dr. McGrath for her more than 25 years of outstanding interdisciplinary anthropological scholarship in the service of the prevention of HIV/AIDS and exceptionally meritorious contributions to the improvement of the health of people infected with or at risk of infection with HIV. The AARG is a special interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, which is a section within the American Anthropological Association whose mission is to support anthropological research in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Melvyn Goldstein receives Distinguished Faculty Research Award

April 25, 2024

Congratulations to John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology Melvyn Goldstein for being awarded the Distinguished Faculty Research Award for his internationally recognized research in Tibet. The presentation was made by President Barbara Snyder, Provost Bud Baeslack, Vice President for Research Suzanne Rivera and Dean Cyrus Taylor during Professor Goldstein’s Introduction...

Cynthia Beall Co-Organized Symposium at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting

April 25, 2024

Cynthia Beall co-organized a symposium on "Evolutionary Biology Impacts on Medicine and Public Health" at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Speakers in the cross-cutting session included anthropologists, biologists, and physician-scientists who are using evolutionary principles to address health, optimal environments, vulnerability to...

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