2025

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. Christina Warinner M W 3-4:15pm This course surveys the evolution of human diet, from the foods of our earliest ancestors to the contents of today’s supermarkets. We’ll cover the definition of food, human nutritional requirements, major dietary...

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...

Prof. Ryo Morimoto M W 1:30-2:45pm What is the relationship between “catastrophe” and human beings, and how has “catastrophe” influenced the way we live in the world now? This course investigates various types of catastrophes/disasters (i.e., earthquakes...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness T 12-2:45pm What is the voice? Where is the voice? Whose voice is it? This course is an exploration of the way different scholarly disciplines, thought traditions, and cultural systems have oriented to the human voice. We will...

Prof. Ping-hsiu Alice Lin M 3-5:45pm How does movement reshape our understanding of contemporary Asia? What happens when we shift our gaze from fixed places to flows of people, ideas, and things? In this introductory-level class in sociocultural...

M 9-11am Dr. Lindsey Marten Zeve This is an introductory social medicine discussion seminar designed specifically for undergraduate students who are interested in applications of medical anthropology to health and medicine. Social medicine uses insights...

Dr. E. Irem Az W 6:00-8:00pm Is disability a human constant? Is it the physical outcome of an event/accident (including particular genetic combinations and developmental events in the fetus) or exposure to toxicity? Is it merely a social consequence of...

Dr. Elisa Tamburo W 3-5:45pm The course interrogates the engagement of China on the African continent in the past century, mostly through ethnographic writing. We will critically evaluate the involvement of China in the region through various analytical...

Prof. Rowan Flad F 9-11:45am Elephants, elk, whales, wolves, great apes, pandas, giant turtles, big cats, buffalo, bears -- these animals populate human cultural imaginations in recent times and they did so in antiquity as well. So-called "charismatic...