Undergraduate Award Recipients

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

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CANCELED (Upcoming Plimpton Lecture: Dr. Patricia Sunderland)

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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Dr. Colleen Walsh Lecture

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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Dr. Susan Crate Lecture

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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Dr. Emily Mendenhall Lecture

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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