anthropology

As the fall semester winds down, it’s officially time to start thinking about spring. Registration for the spring semester begins today (Nov. 8) for undergraduate students; depending on the school, graduate program registration may already have started or may begin in the coming weeks. Whether…

Heidi Larson, Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, will present the 2021 Kassen Lecture in Anthropology. Her talk "Emotional Contagion in Times of COVID: From Fear to Hope" will…

Case Western Reserve University team led by computer and data scientist awarded $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop AI-powered framework to combat infectious disease outbreaks Computer and data science researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing an…

Hispanic Heritage Month takes place each year from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. Throughout the month, The Daily will highlight members of the university community who are of Hispanic heritage to celebrate their accomplishments and shed light on their experiences at CWRU. Estefania Hernandez hasn’t…

Estefania Hernandez and Stephanie Griggs Stephanie Griggs, assistant professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Estefania Hernandez, graduate research assistant in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, received the American…

May is Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi and Asian American Heritage Month. Throughout the month, The Daily will highlight members of the university community who are of Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi and Asian American heritage to celebrate their accomplishments as members of the campus community and…

The Anthropology Student Association will host a talk with Alisa Goldberg (CWR ‘90), a women’s health and family planning specialist, Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. EST. Goldberg will discuss her accomplishments as a physician, researcher and founder of numerous family planning…

The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Sienna Craig, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Thursday, April 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Craig will present “Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New…

The Department of Anthropology will host Patricia Sunderland, founding principal at Cultural Research and Analysis, for a presentation titled “Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design” Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Sunderland is a specialist in the…

The term vaccine hesitancy is frequently in the news these days, but what does it mean and why is it important to understand it as we continue the COVID-19 vaccine roll out? Janet McGrath, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, shared her…