anthropology

The Origins Science Scholars Series will continue with a presentation by Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and the Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, titled “Tracing Evolution: Where Modern Human Variation Comes from and Why.” Beall's lecture will be held Tuesday, Oct. 9,…

Students are invited to an information session on the Global Health Design in Uganda spring break travel course Friday, Sept. 21, at 12:30 p.m. in Wickenden Building, Room 328. Attendees will hear from past participants and meet faculty leaders Janet McGrath, professor of anthropology, and Andrew…

The fourth lecture in the Anthropology Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, will feature Ellen Oxfeld, the Gordon Schuster Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College. The lecture, titled “Food as Moral Discourse in Contemporary Rural China,” will take place Monday, April…

The Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University offers a one-year Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology and Global Health program, including a certificate in global health. The program has a rolling admissions policy. International students are welcome, and an anthropology…

The Department of Anthropology will host medical anthropologist Jean Schensul for the third guest lecture of the Anthropology Lecture Series. She will present "Building Complex Collaborative Community Intervention Studies” Monday, March 26, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room…

The Department of Anthropology will host the second installment of its inaugural Anthropology Lecture Series Tuesday, March 6, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201. Sara Thiam, visiting assistant professor or anthropology, will present “Perpetrator-less Child Trafficking in…

The inaugural installment of the Department of Anthropology’s new Annual Anthropology Lecture Series will held Thursday, Feb. 15, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201. Carolyn Lesorogol, professor and associate dean of Brown School of Social Work at Washington University,…

Alum and adjunct assistant professor David Kaawa-Mafigiri co-edited Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda, published by Springer. David Kaawa-Mafigiri (GRS '07, medical anthropology), an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology, co-edited Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda, published by…

Stanford University Press has published Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lihong Shi's book Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. The book explores an emerging reproductive pattern in rural China in which a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single…

The Case Western Reserve University Graduate Society of Medical Humanities (GSMH) will hold the first installment of the 2017-18 GSMH Student Lecture Series Wednesday, Dec. 6, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Sears Library Building’s bioethics conference room (TA200). Megan Schmidt-Sane, a PhD student…