anthropology
March 21, 2018
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…
February 27, 2018
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…
February 06, 2018
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,…
November 17, 2017
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…
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…