College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Melissa Cefkin, Ph.D. leads the Human Centered Systems research division at the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley that examines the challenges of creating autonomous vehicles. Join us on Monday, February 11 from 5:00 – 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial 201 for her talk on “Anthropological Forays into the Future: Living with Autonomous Cars”.

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This year marks the 30th year of the research collaboration between researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Uganda. The collaboration began at the invitation of the Ugandan government who invited the late Dr. Frederick Robbins, Nobel Laureate and Dean Emeritus of the CWRU School of Medicine, to visit...

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Susan Greenhalgh, Ph.D. John King & Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard "Big Pharma, Big Food, and the Management of the Global Obesity Epidemic" Friday, November 2, 2018 - starts at 5:00 PM in Mather Memorial, 201 (Snacks provided) Professor Greenhalgh’s work seeks to...

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Crystal L. Patil, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Interim Department Head, Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago "Invisible and in the Spotlight: Situating Sickle Cell Disease in our Teaching and Research" Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - from 5:00 to 6:00 PM in Mather...

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Svea Closser, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College "Does Volunteer Community Health Work Empower Women? Evidence from Ethiopia's Women's Development Army" Monday, September 17, 2018 - from 5:00 to 6:00 PM in Mather Memorial, 201 Professor Svea Closser is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on the interaction between...

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Graduate students Yunzhu Chen, Allison Schlosser, and Jing Wang successfully defended their dissertations. Congratulations to all!! Yunzhu Chen: "The Revival of "Visiting Marriage" - Family Change and Intergenerational Relations Among Matrilineal Tibetans in Southwestern China." Allison Schlosser: "Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the United States." Jing Wang:...

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