anthropology
November 17, 2017
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…
November 16, 2017
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…
September 28, 2017
Students are invited to learn more about the short-term spring break program “Global Health Design in Uganda” at an information session Friday, Oct. 6, at 12:30 p.m. in Wickenden Building, Room 328. Andrew Rollins, professor of biomedical engineering, and Janet McGrath, professor of anthropology,…
August 18, 2017
Vanessa M. Hildebrand, assistant professor of anthropology, co-wrote a book titled Health, Culture, and Society: Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications. This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts that are foundational in the development of the health disciplines and…
March 28, 2017
The Department of Anthorpology will host John Bing, founder and chairman of ITAP International, for the Anthropology Spotlight Lecture Series: Applying Anthropology to Real World Problems. Bing will present "The Case for Comparative Quantitative Measures of Cultures: The Many Dimensions of Geert…
March 17, 2017
Heather Baily, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, wrote a guest blog for Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, an international journal of cross-cultural health research. Titled “Telemedicine in Ghana,” her post described a trip to Ghana, where she investigated how the country is…
February 09, 2017
Celebrate National Anthropology Day by stopping by the Department of Anthropology’s table in Tinkham Veale University Center for a piece of cake Thursday, Feb. 16, from noon to 2 p.m. While there, learn about the opportunities open to anthropologists.
April 12, 2016
More than 1,000 stakeholders and community members are expected to visit Research ShowCASE April 15 to see the latest innovations from faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University. Among them: Four of the university’s most prominent researchers, who will be recognized as Faculty…
March 31, 2016
This year’s Anthropology Spotlight Lecture Series, "Applying Anthropology to Real World Problems," will be held Monday, April 18, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial, Room 201. Dawn Nafus, senior research scientist at Intel, will present “Getting Out of the Clouds: Context and Data within…
March 23, 2016
Disposal of medical waste is not the most glamorous issue in global health, yet the risk it poses to health workers, community members, and the environment is significant in resource-poor locations around the world. At rural health clinics in Uganda, for example, medical waste—from wrappers to used…