2024

Prof. Arthur Kleinman T 12-2:45pm In this course we explore work from a variety of genres- ethnography, biography, film, and the novel- that tell us about the person and personhood more generally in historical and cultural context. The idea is to compare...

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...

Dr. Elisa Tamburo M 3-5:45pm This course will enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the recent history and contemporary society, culture, and politics of China through ethnographic writings. We will read contemporary ethnographies on...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness M W 10:30-11:45am This course introduces undergraduate students to the discipline of Sociocultural Anthropology. Lectures will develop and explain sociocultural anthropology’s central questions and discoveries, concepts and...

Prof. Christina Warinner M W 3-4:15pm This course surveys the concept of health and the major nutritional and infectious diseases that have impacted human populations over the past ten thousand years. Special attention is paid to the methods used to...

Prof. Shayla Monroe T 9-11:45am Survey of African Archaeology from 12,000 BCE to present.

Prof. Gabriella Coleman W 3-5:45pm This course examines computer hackers to interrogate not only the ethics, diversity, and technical practices of hacking but to examine more broadly how hackers and hacking have triggered and transformed changes in law...

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. Joseph Gone M 12:00 PM - 2:45PM American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities attribute this distress to their...