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ANTHR 3950Day/time: TR 1:00pm - 2:15pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Durba GhoshThis course explores the practice, theory, and methodology of humanities research, critical analysis, and communication through writing and oral presentation. We will study the work and impact of humanists (scholars of literature, history, theory, art, visual studies...
ANTHR 3703Day/time: MW 2:45pm - 4:00pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Viranjini MunasingheThe common perception of ethnicity is that it is a natural and an inevitable consequence of cultural difference. Asians overseas, in particular, have won repute as a people who cling tenaciously to their culture and refuse to assimilate into their host...
ANTHR 3475Day/time: TR 2:45pm - 4:00pmMode: In personInstructor: Vilma Santiago-IrizarryDescription: In this course, we examine the role that law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We will approach law from a critical anthropological perspective, as a...
ANTHR 3422Day/time: TR 9:40am - 10:55amMode: In personInstructor: Paul NadasdyThis course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. The focus is on the indigenous peoples of the region and...
ANTHR 3420Day/time: MW 9:40am - 10:55amMode: In personInstructor: Andrew WillfordThis course approaches the study of religion, symbols, and myth from an anthropological perspective. The centrality and universality of religion and myth-making in social and symbolic life has been fundamental in the development of cultural theory. Our aim is...
ANTHR 3413Day/time: TR 1:00pm - 2:15pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Alex NadingThe term global health refers to an aspiration and a set of problems. As an aspiration, global health seeks to unite biosecurity, humanitarian, and philanthropic efforts to rid the world of disease. Seen as a set of problems, global health is more unruly. Deciding...
ANTHR 3405Day/time: MW 2:45pm - 4:00pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Sofia VillenasDescription: This 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...
ANTHR 3390Day/time: MWF 12:25pm - 1:15pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Adam 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...
ANTHR 3230Day/time: MWF 11:20am - 12:10pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Nerissa RussellHuman-animal relationships are often seen in utilitarian, nutritional terms, particularly in archaeology. But animals and meat have significance far beyond their economic value. This course focuses on a broad range of these non-dietary roles of animals in human...
ANTHR 3061Day/time: TR 1:00pm - 2:15pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Malte ZiewitzComputers are powerful tools for working, playing, thinking, and living. Laptops, PDAs, webcams, cell phones, and iPods are not just devices, they also provide narratives, metaphors, and ways of seeing the world. This course critically examines how computing...
ANTHR 3042Day/time: TR 2:45pm-4:00pmMode: Hybrid-Online and In Person (Split Hybrid class. All students meet ONLINE on Tuesdays and IN PERSON on Thursdays.)Instructor: Maia DedrickThis course will prepare students to identify, analyze, and interpret plant remains gathered from archaeological sites. We will build a conceptual framework to...
ANTHR 2750Day/time: MW 10:10am - 11:00amMode: OnlineInstructor: Zhenglong GuExamines the theories and mechanisms of modern evolutionary biology as they apply to present-day humans and their hominid ancestors. Lectures and discussions of molecular and paleontological evidence of human evolution, the causes and consequences of contemporary...
ANTHR 2482Day/time: TR 11:25am - 12:40pmMode: OnlineInstructor: 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....
ANTHR 2468Day/time: TR 9:40am - 10:55amMode: OnlineInstructor: Stacey LangwickMedicine 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...
ANTHR 2400Day/time: MW 11:20am - 12:10pmMode: OnlineInstructor: Natasha RahejaThis 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...
ANTHR 2201Day/time: MWF 9:05am - 9:55amMode: OnlineInstructor: Nerissa RussellDescription: Throughout 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...
ANTHR 1300Day/time: MWF 10:10am - 11:00amMode: OnlineInstructor: 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...
Over the summer, the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) joined with the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA), the Indigenous Archaeology Collective (IAC), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and SAPIENS to create a nation-wide coalition of archaeology centers. The goal is to address the sources of systematic racism and move...
Amid catastrophic wildfires in northern California, Indigenous Karuk people are using time-tested practices of prescribed burning to protect lives and lands within their ancestral territory and strengthen sovereignty and community wellbeing. The Karuk Department of Natural Resources (DNR) critiques and works to dismantle the settler state’s...
Gillian Harrill '22 is a Communication major who enjoys fencing and capturing the human experience in filmmaking. She shares her experiences minoring in Anthropology. What inspired you to minor in Anthropology? Do you have a specific area of interest?I was always the kid who needed to get her hands on National Geographic Magazines and had...
The department of anthropology supports its faculty and graduate student instructors who choose to participate in #ScholarStrike, a national collective action to be held on Sept 8-9 to protest against white supremacy, police brutality, mass incarceration, and other manifestations of racism in this country. It is up to individual instructors to...
Dear members of Cornell’s Anthropology community,The recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, alongside the disproportionately high health and economic costs of the coronavirus pandemic born by people of color over the past three months, have once again thrown into sharp relief the systemic racism of the...
Professor Lucinda Ramberg has been awarded a 2020 Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies/ the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation in Buddhist Studies. The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies offer support for research and writing in Buddhist studies. The fellowship is made possible...
On behalf of the Department of Anthropology, Congratulations to our 2020 graduates! We wish you the very best and hope you'll keep us updated on your projects, work, and adventures in the future. Master of ArtsXinyu GuanAnna Paola Passerini Bachelor of ArtsNicole Blumenfeld, magna cum laudeEve HallockArmine KalbakianLakshmi...
Anthropology Major Eve Hallock '20 reflects on her experiences at Cornell.Eve Hallock Anthropology, Biology & Society Major Latin American Studies Minor What inspired you to choose Anthropology? Do you have a specific area of interest? Why is this work important? My high school senior history teacher inspired me to apply...