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...
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...
Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in our program in medical anthropology and global health beginning in the 2017 – 2018 academic...
April 10, 2017
4:15 – 5:30PM
MATHER MEMORIAL | ROOM 201
The Department of Anthropology Spotlight Lecture Series will feature Dr. John Bing, Founder and Chairmen of ITAP International. The lecture is entitled “The Case for Comparative Quantitative Measures of Cultures: The Many Dimensions of Geert Hofstede.” Light refreshments will be provided.
ABOUT:
Dr. John Bing is founder and Chairman of ITAP International, a consulting firm with global operations. His consulting experience spans the Americas, Europe and Africa and the pharmaceutical, consumer product, information technology industries and United Nations Agencies. He designed the original version of ITAP International’s Team Process Questionnaire family of consulting instruments and developed a new version of the Culture in the Workplace Questionnaire, originally created by Geert Hofstede. The field of cross-cultural research and practice has come into its own over the past fifty years, with the work of Geert Hofstede as the exemplar. His extensive published work on dimensions of culture has not been without controversy, but his methodology has prevailed and yielded practical approaches to comparing national cultures that have opened new approaches to learning. This lecture will review his methodological approaches and a practical application of his methodology.
March 23, 2017
11:30 – 12:45 PM
TINKHAM VEALE UNIVERSITY CENTER | SENIOR CLASSROOM
This lecture, co-sponsored with the Schubert Center for Child Studies, is featuring Seinenu Thein-Lemelson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Personality and Social Research (IPSR), University of California, Berkeley. The lecture is entitled “Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Tracing Possible Pathways Towards Resilience.”
ABOUT:
There is a growing literature indicating that individuals often respond to traumatic experience with resilience, yet it is not clear what specific factors facilitate recovery. In particular, it has been challenging to identify the larger historical, structural, political, and cultural factors that predict individual outcome in the context of life-span development. This lecture will discuss the comparative case analysis of two historic national tragedies in Southeast Asia: one in Burma, the other in Indonesia. The two case studies illuminate how the social and political landscape, following traumatic events, can be shaped to allow victims of trauma to thrive, rather than recede into silence.