College of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar position in our program in medical anthropology and global health beginning in the 2020-2021 academic year. This is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal for...

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Starting in January we have an exciting line up of scholars coming to present on their latest research: January 23rd Rethinking Diabetes: Considerations of Hunger, Trauma, Precarity, and Insulin Emily Mendenhall, Ph.D., MPH   Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh, School of Foreign Service Georgetown University Dr. Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and author of Syndemic...

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Congratulations to Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, who was named by Nature magazine as one of the top people in science in 2019 in recognition of his important work on human evolution. Nature...

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“Childhood in Sri Lanka: A Perspective from Twenty Years of Fieldwork” Thursday, November 7, 2019 — from 4:30 to 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial Room 201 Dr. Bambi Chapin is an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For over 20 years, Bambi Chapin has...

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Dr. Rachel Chapman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington. Join us on Friday, March 22nd from 5:00 – 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial 201 for her talk on “Austerity, Precarious Use and the Elusive AIDS Free Generation in Mozambique”.

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The Anthropological Student Association invites you to stop by their table on February 21 in the Tinkham Veale University Center, between 11:00AM - 2:00PM. Majors and minors can stop by for free American Anthropological Association Merchandise! Later, join us for a showing of Smoke Signals, a 1990's movie about modern Native-Americans coming to terms...

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