College of Arts and Sciences

David Kaawa-Mafigiri, Ph.D. (CWRU Anth 2007) co-edited the first book on child abuse and neglect in Uganda (Springer, 2017). Kaawa-Mafigiri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and an Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor in the CWRU Department...

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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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