2023

How is our understanding of the past, and of scientific discovery in general, determined or framed by the concerns of the present? How does popular media cover scientific research about the past? How do ingrained social biases affect this media coverage...

Prof. Sarah Hlubik W 12-2:45 pm This is a lab-based class intended to showcase how experimentation helps to answer archaeological questions. Students will participate in experimental modules, conducting experiments, collecting and analyzing data and...

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...

F 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM