College of Arts and Sciences

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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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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