College of Arts and Sciences

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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Megan Schmidt-Sane was awarded a highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her proposal entitled “Doctoral Dissertation Research: A mixed-method study of health vulnerability and social resilience in Kampala, Uganda.” The NSF grant allows doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to...

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Jonathan F. Plimpton, a 1970 graduate of the Department of Anthropology of Western Reserve College, was recently featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Donor Stories for his continued generosity of a funded fellowship that enables anthropology undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research abroad. The Jonathan F. Plimpton...

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Save the date! On April 16th, the Department of Anthropology is excited to announce the fourth guest lecturer of the new annual Anthropology Lecture Series. The series invites prominent anthropologists from across the world to speak to the community. This lecture will feature Ellen Oxfeld, Gordon Schuster Professor of Anthropology,...

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