Social Anthropology

Prof. Davíd Carrasco W 3-5pm This seminar is an intensive introduction to the writings of Mircea Eliade and his influence on the “Chicago School” of the History of Religions. We will read selections from his scholarly works, literary writings and journals...

Prof. Ryo Morimoto M 3:00-5:45pm The rapid growth of applied robotics and remote and automation technologies is reconfiguring the human-machine relationship from industry to commerce, education, healthcare, public safety, security, and warfare. Machines’...

Prof. Ryo Morimoto W 12:00-2:45pm How have the global, historical engagements with nuclear things had latent colonization effects on the contemporary and future ecologies and generations? How have the toxic effects of nuclear things been (re)presented...

Dr. Damina Khaira W 3:00-5:45pm How are stories told? How do anthropologists render lived experiences into ethnographic text? How might ethnography - as a mode of witnessing and a way of knowing - be distinct from other genres of writing? Geared towards...

Dr. Lindsey Zeve T 12:00-2:45pm In recent decades, macroscale demographic and epidemiological trends have led to a marked increase in the number of older adults as a proportion of the global population. This transition is predicted to accelerate...

Prof. Ping-hsiu Lin Th 12-2:45pm This course explores fundamental questions about economic life through an anthropological lens: What is a market, and how do different societies understand and practice exchange? How do gifts differ from commodities, and...

Dr. Lindsey Zeve Th 3:00-5:45pm Social medicine is a multidisciplinary field of practice that draws insights from the social sciences to improve care delivery and address health inequities. Medical anthropology is a core contributing discipline to the...

Dr. Lindsey Zeve Th 3-5:45pm Over the last two decades, health scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a perceived methodological crisis centered on the reliable replication of research findings—a crisis exacerbated by growing public mistrust...

Prof. Shayla Monroe M 9-11:45am This course surveys of wide variety approaches to ecological studies in Africa and places them in dialogue with paleoecology and environmental archaeology. We will interrogate the relationships between the following...