College of Arts and Sciences

Betwixt and Between: Studying up American Medicine Katharina Rynkiewich, Ph.D. September 17, 2020 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 989 6021 6345 Password: 307663 Event Flier Dr. Rynkiewich is a sociocultural anthropologist with research interests in antimicrobial prescribing and infectious disease practice in the United States. Her current research focuses on practices of infection...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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