Dr. Gillespie HISTORICITIES is a 3-credit reading-intensive seminar focused on the twinned phenomena of the “historical turn” in anthropology: non-Western “historicities” and historical processes. Historicities, also referred to as “modes […]
Dr. Gillespie Principles of Archaeology is a 3-credit course designed for MA students in anthropology (all subfields) and graduate students in History, Classics, or other disciplines in which a basic […]
Dr. Kernaghan In this course we examine how the material specificity of physical terrains affects legal phenomena as they come to be expressed, sensed and practiced. We observe and track […]
Dr. Stephanie Bogart and Dr. Kim Valenta We will explore the central and cross-disciplinary concepts of primate behavior, which include, but are not limited to genetics, ecology, behavioral diversity, evolution, […]
Dr. Kernaghan This course asks how prohibition-infused social types and things (but also events, terrains and times) can be approached ethnographically. It asks how an ethnographer’s need for extended durations […]
Dr. Contreras This course introduces students to the basic quantitative methods required to describe and analyze archaeological data. Each week will introduce a new data analysis or data visualization technique, […]
Dr. Contreras Our current moment in planetary history is one in which human activity is the dominant influence on Earth’s ecosystems. Scientific consensus in the 21st century is that this […]
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Dr. Daegling Skeletal growth and variation is examined through the lens of mechanobiology –how physical forces influence the development and evolution of bone tissue. Theories of bone adaptation and their […]
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Dr. Chalfin Political Anthropology is a vast field covering the spectrum of human political organization past and present. In addition to documenting the organization of political life in small-scale societies, […]
Dr. deFrance Humankind has lived along coastal habitats throughout history. Life in coastal and maritime settings has led to great creativity in the development of economic systems dependent on littoral […]