College of Arts and Sciences

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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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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