anthropology

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…

The Anthropology Student Association (ASA) and Department of Anthropology will host a film watch party today (Feb. 18) to celebrate Anthropology Day. The film, The Anthropologist, will be streamed live on Zoom from 5:30 to 7 p.m. EST. The film will be followed by a student-led panel and informal…

Lihong Shi, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an op-ed published by Sixth Tone, a digital English publication in China. Her piece described the grief faced by Chinese parents who have lost their only child. Five years after China ended…

Under the auspices of the Office of the Provost’s Northstar Experiences, the international studies honor society, Sigma Iota Rho, and the International Studies Program will host an interactive workshop titled “Addressing Illegal Drug Use” Saturday, Sept. 26, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The session will be…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct…

From trying to understand lung immunity in COVID-19 patients to recognizing the impact the pandemic has had on mental health, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and affiliated health care systems have joined forces to expand and improve research on the virus in the community and beyond.…

Lihong Shi, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, wrote an op-ed article published in Sixth Tones, a digital news media outlet in China, discussing the recent changes in the long-held tradition of Chinese couples trying for a son. In her article, Shi discussed the history of…