College of Arts and Sciences

Each year the Department of Anthropology presents the Kassen Lecture, featuring a top female scholar in the social sciences to present a lecture to the department and to the campus community. The Kassen Lecture for 2017 will feature Dr. Nicole Burt, Curator of Human Health and Evolutionary Medicine at the Cleveland Museum...

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Sydney Stark (BA, 2017) was awarded the XLII National Lambda Alpha Scholarship.  Lambda alpha is a national Anthropology honor society (click here for information on our chapter).  The award comes with a check for $5000.  Next year Sydney will complete an M.A. in medical anthropology and global health at CWRU. ...

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This fall the department welcomes Dr. Sara Thiam, a new visiting assistant professor to our medical anthropology and global health program. Dr. Thiam received her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, focusing on Medical Anthropology and the study of humanitarianism, human rights, and childhood.  Her research is on the...

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Alex Bridges successfully defended his dissertation “Two Monasteries in Ladakh: Religiosity and the Social Environment in Tibetan Buddhism.”

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We are proud to announce the outstanding achievements of students in our graduate program this past spring.   Kelley Kampman was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Becoming a Mother and Mothering in the Context of Biomedicalized Addiction Treatment.”   Julia Knopes was awarded a 2017...

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The following anthropology students were recipients of a Certificate in Global Health; Manvir Bhagrath, Anupama Cemballi, Shannon Chua, Charles Halbeck, Sofia Murillo, Sydney Stark, Raghav Tripathi, and Harini Ushasri. Congratulations to all!  The Certificate in Global Health was established as part of the Framework for Global Health Curricula, which is coordinated by the Center for Global Health and Diseases in...

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