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ANTHR 35164 credits MW 11:25-12:40Instructor: Marina WelkerExamining the symbolic within cultural and social processes in Southeast Asia, anthropologists have produced contextually rich accounts of cultural uniqueness. Interpretive ethnographies tend, however, to downplay the role of power and domination. Using the traditional...
ANTHR 3487Instructor: Amiel Bize MW 2:45-4:00This course introduces students to a tradition of radical scholarship on the articulations of race and racism with capitalism, and uses it as a frame through which to examine the ongoing role of racialized difference in structuring capitalist extraction. Beginning with chattel slavery's...
ANTHR 3405TR 1:00-2:15Instructor: Sofia VillenasThis course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural and social premises undergirding educational practices in diverse communities and...
ANTHR 3390MWF 12:25-1:15 Instructor: Adam Clark ArcadiThe course will investigate all aspects of non-human primate life. Based on the fundamentals of evolutionary theory, group and inter-individual behaviors will be presented. In addition, an understanding of group structure and breeding systems will be reached through an evaluation...
ANTHR 3255MW 9:40-10:55Instructor: John HendersonAn introduction to ancient Mesoamerica, focusing on the nature and development of societies that are arguably the most complex to develop anywhere in the precolumbian Americas. The course provides a summary of the history of the region before the European invasion, but the emphasis is...
ANTHR 3245MW 2:45-4:00Instructor: John HendersonThis course considers the possibility of connections between the America and the Old World before the Spanish discovery not only as an empirical question, but also as an intensely controversial issue that has tested the limits of the scholarly detachment that archaeologists imagine...
ANTHR 3235TR 2:45-4:00Instructor: Matthew VelascoBioarchaeology is the study of human remains from archaeological sites. Like forensic scientists at the scene of the crime, bioarchaeologists search for clues embedded in human bone and mummified tissues to reconstruct how ancient peoples lived and died. As a dynamic living system, the...
ANTHR 3042MW 9:40-10:55Instructor: Maia DedrickThis course will prepare students to identify, analyze, and interpret plant remains gathered from archaeological sites. We will build a conceptual framework to explain how human behavior relates to plant patterning, drawing on case studies from around the world. Through hands-on...
ANTHR 2720TR 9:40-10:55Instructor: Kurt JordanWho lived in the Ithaca area before American settlers and Cornell arrived? Where do these indigenous peoples reside today? This class explores the history and culture of the Gayogoho:no (Cayuga), which means people from the mucky land. We will read perspectives by indigenous authors, as well...
ANTHR 2482TR 1:00-2:15Instructor: Chloe AhmannWhat does it mean to study humanity at a time when it has become a geological force? What is required of us as thinking subjects under the Anthropocene? In this course, we will argue that anthropologists have an important role to play at this historical juncture. But we will also consider how...
ANTHR 2468TR 11:25-12:40Instructor: Alex NadingMedicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this medicalization of life may be one of the reasons that medical anthropology is currently the fastest- growing subfield in anthropology. This course...
ANTHR 2465TR 9:40-10:55Instructor: Adam SmithHeritage typically conjures images of a glorified human past, and evokes sentiments of care for lost or endangered cultures that symbolize humanity's diversity. But heritage is also the foundation for a multi-billion dollar tourist industry and a basis for claims to national sovereignty. A...
ANTHR 2440Instructor: Amiel BizeMW 10:10-11:00What is money? How do people use money in the real world? How are technological innovations changing people's perceptions of money? This course introduces anthropological perspectives on economy and society through a variety of ethnographic studies of money and finance. Topics of discussion...
ANTHR 24003 credits MW 12:25-1:15Instructor: Magnus FiskesjoThis course will introduce students to the meaning and significance of forms of cultural diversity for the understanding of contemporary issues. Drawing from films, videos, and selected readings, students will be confronted with different representational forms that portray...
ANTHR 2201MWF 11:20-12:10Instructor: Nerissa RussellThroughout most of the human career, people survived by hunting and gathering wild foods. The advent of food production is one of the most profound changes in history and prehistory. This course examines the current evidence for the appearance and spread of agriculture - plant and...
ANTHR 1300 MW 10:10-11:00Instructor: Adam ArcadiThe evolution of humankind is explored through the fossil record, studies of the biological differences among current human populations, and a comparison with our closest relatives, the primates. This course investigates the roots of human biology and behavior with an evolutionary framework.
The Department of Anthropology has many partners on campus and around the world that enable our students to explore collaborative research opportunities. The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce a new round of competition for the Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology and the Engaged Learning in Anthropology...
We celebrate our Class of 2020 alumni. Congrats & Welcome back.Whether you are joining us in person or virtually, we're excited to celebrate the Class of 2020 this weekend as part of Homecoming Weekend. Learn more about the in-person ceremony at Schoelkopf Stadium this Sunday, September 19 at the Alumni Parents, and Friends website. There...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Sarahi Elizabeth Rivas was awarded an Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarship. She will use funds from this scholarship to organize community engagement projects, including a multi-lingual podcast, a virtual workshop, and video-recorded oral histories which will give refugee scholars...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Mia Narae Song '22 was awarded an Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarship. She will use funds from this scholarship for her ethnographic study of Asian Americans and the creation of resources to help people of color to protect themselves and others from social injustices in the...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Gillian Harrill was awarded an Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarship. She will use funds from this scholarship to conduct research in southeastern Arizona and work on her ethnographic film Heaven’s Forty Acres. Gillian is a senior majoring in Communication and minoring in...
I am interested in how people live with doubt of many kinds. As an environmental anthropologist working in postindustrial Baltimore, this interest takes a couple forms: there is the uncertainty that comes with the unraveling of former life-worlds, and there is the kind that hangs in the air when one lives in an ambiguously toxic place. My work...
Eudes Lopes is the Department of Anthropology's newest P.h.D. Lopes graduated with his Doctor of Philosophy and served as one of the Degree Marshals for the Graduate School Doctoral Candidates Banner during Commencement on May 29, 2021. This honor is awarded to the most academically distinguished student in each program. Degree Marshals have the...
Congratulations to all of our graduates and best wishes! Doctor of Philosophy Eudes Lopes Master of Arts Xavier Robillard-Martel Undergraduate Majors Ruby French Prinita Mukherjee - with honors Arianne Seenauth - with honors Mickayla Smith Harper Tooch Undergraduate Minors Anna Beck Diego Burga...
There are still seats available in these NEW anthropology courses... Community Engagement in Archaeology ANTHR 3030/6030 - TR 1:00-2:15 pm - Dedrick, Maia Meaningful community-engaged archaeology has the potential to transform the discipline. Increasingly, archaeologists engage intentionally with communities, through...