Fall

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...

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...