anthropology

The Anthropology Spotlight Lecture Series will feature Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor, vice president for research at FrameWorks Institute, on Monday, April 13, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial, Room 201. Kendall-Taylor will present on “Framing for Change: A Cultural-Cognitive Approach to Communi...

The Department of Anthropology will celebrate National Anthropology Day on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial 201. This event is rescheduled from Thursday, Feb. 19, when the university was closed. The celebration will include pizza, raffles, prizes, and a screening of the doc...

The Moms Offering Moms Support Group will meet on Monday, Feb. 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248. The meeting will feature a discussion with Vanessa Hildebrand, assistant professor of anthropology, about mothering...

Kelvin Smith Library will host presentations by the 2014 Freedman Fellows: Melvyn Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, and Justin Gallagher, assistant professor of economics. The fellows will discuss their research and h...

It was a dark and chilling night in 2006 when Michele Hanks, a Case Western Reserve University anthropologist and SAGES Fellow, waited for a ghost to appear. She sat, knees to her chin, with a half-dozen people in the lightless upstairs room of the haunted Golden Fleece, a pub in York, England, on ...

UNAIDS Science now selected a recent paper titled “Challenging the paradigm: Anthropological perspectives on HIV as a chronic disease” by Janet McGrath, associate professor of anthropology, and colleagues. The paper was selected for inclusion in the 4th issue of HIV this month, an online forum that ...

Katia Almeida delights in how her students represent various majors and interests—medicine, business, engineering, the arts and more. Because, she believes, the study of anthropology is relevant and applicable, no matter the discipline. “It enables you to see the world from a different perspective...

Cheryl Mattingly, professor at the University of Southern California, will present the 2013 Kassen Lecture, titled "Vulnerability, Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Suffering." The lecture will be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building 201. With the support of Ai...

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, was featured in "Dancing in Amdo," a documentary film on the Sino-Tibetan conflict. The documentary explores the Tibet issue from both sides, and it includes interviews wit...

Leading an archaeological dig in a northern Israeli cave, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine have unearthed clues about early man’s lifestyle in an important area along the transcontinental path from Africa to Eurasia. Researchers found teeth from an adult, a...