anthropology

Before beginning graduate school, Regan Gee took a gap year to get to know her local community on a different level. To do that, she decided to participate in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, where she had the opportunity to teach at a primarily Indigenous-serving K-8 school near where she grew up in t...

Case Western Reserve University researchers helped unearth evidence for ritualistic gathering in upper Paleolithic

Case Western Reserve research sheds light on hidden networks fueling narcotics trade

Countless faculty members have called Case Western Reserve University their professional home over the years—and recently, the university bid farewell to some of them as they chose to retire. The Daily reached out to faculty members who announced their retirements after more than 25 years of servic...

The Department of Anthropology will welcome Bridget Haas, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, to Case Western Reserve University for a book talk on her forthcoming book Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System. Haas’s book explores the experience of asylum se...

Four Case Western Reserve University faculty members will describe the accomplishments of the 2023 Nobel laureates in science Thursday, Feb. 9, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. The following faculty members will present at the CWRU Nobel Symposium: Jesse Berezovsky, associate pr...

Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, “Understanding psylocibin (‘magic mushrooms’) in the context of the modern ‘psychedelic renaissance’”, received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Expanding Horizons Initiat...

The Department of Anthropology will host the 2022-23 Kassen Lecturer Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. Alexandra Brewis, President’s Professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, will present “All Stigmas...

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at CWRU, has been awarded the Association for Asian Studies’ 2022 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize for his 2019 book: A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of th...

The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Tiantian Zheng, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. Zheng will present “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China” Friday, Feb. 11, from 2 to 3 p.m. via ...