Graduate

Prof. Malavika Reddy Th 12-2:45pm This course considers how anthropology has understood sovereignty, as theoretical object and political process. What is at stake in asking about how authority is founded and sustained? How have anthropologists posed these...

Prof. Amy Clark T 12-2:45pm This course provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students an introduction to quantitative methods utilized in archaeological research. Although there will be a lecture component to this class, most of the class will be...

Prof. Shayla Monroe T/Th 9:00-10:15am This course is meant to serve as a follow up to the primary Theory Course in Archaeology. It is designed to help graduate students think through contemporary and theoretical issues in preparation for their General...

Prof. Ajantha Subramanian Th 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM This required seminar offers an overview of theoretical trends in social anthropology from approximately the 1960s and situates these trends within longer genealogies of social thought. The central animating...

Profs. Ajantha Subramanian and Vincent Brown W 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Explores exchanges between the disciplines of History and Anthropology, emphasizing overlaps and distinctions in the treatment of mutual concerns such as the representation of time and...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM This seminar examines the mediation of socio-cultural life by sign phenomena in multiple modalities of experience.

Prof. Ruth Mandel W 6:00 PM - 8:45 PM What can we learn from alternative, multimodal forms of knowledge production? This course applies anthropological approaches to Jewish graphic narratives. We will explore the ways Jewish authors grapple with complex...

Prof. Steven C. Caton Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM The discursive construction of culture and its complex politics are examined in a wide range of ethnographies that have been written recently on countries in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Jordan, Israel...

Prof. Christina Warinner T/Th 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM All good research begins with a strong foundation. This course is aimed at providing you with the foundational knowledge and basic tools you need to succeed as a professional archaeologist. Aided in part by...

Profs. Jason Ur and Bill Fash M 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM This seminar delves into the world’s earliest cities: their origins, their operations, and their collapses. It considers how we define this term, and why every settlement doesn’t grow into a city. The...