Dr. Ostebo This course offers anthropological perspectives on global public health. Students will be introduced to various global health challenges and problems, and to the initiatives and approaches that have been undertaken to address them. This includes a focus on the main actors and institutions that constitute the field of global health and on the […]
Dr. Paulson This political ecology course explores how masculinities and femininities are shaped by—and influence—environmental management and the (re)production of rural and urban landscapes. Course participants develop skills and strategies to strengthen their work in conservation and development with gender-aware language, image analysis, survey design, mapping, photovoice, interviews and focus groups, use of contested terms, […]
Dr. Paulson This course brings together natural and social scientists and practitioners to ask: How does power work in and through ecosystems, economies, environmental governance systems, institutions, bodies, and science itself? Participants explore environmental challenges and conflicts on scales ranging from local farms and forests to earth systems of atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Attention […]
Dr. Prieto The sacrifice of men, women and children is one of the most controversial acts in ancient societies. Practiced around the world, this act is imbued in intricate rituals that explain the essence of human nature. This course explore human sacrificial practices around the world and its social, political and economic implications, as well […]
Dr. J. Johnson Applied anthropology is the application of anthropological knowledge, theory, and methods to the solution of practical problems or “putting anthropology to use”. The overall objective of this course is to give students an introductory understanding of the elements of applied anthropological work and the work of actual applied anthropologists in universities, government, […]
Dr. Oyeula-Caycedo The objective of this course is to create a solid foundation in the study of the theories and methods in historical ecology today. This will be accomplished by evaluating the new trends that have driven historical ecology in the last ten years. This new approach demands an interdisciplinary view. The first part of […]
Dr. Daegling A practical survey of the human skeleton for aspiring bioarchaeologists, forensic anthropologists and paleoanthropologists. Emphasis is on developing techniques for the identification of human remains, including methods for establishing a biological profile from skeletal remains. This course provides hands-on experience with complete and fragmentary human remains, and includes a basic introduction to skeletal […]
Dr. Prieto One of the major challenges in the academic life of graduate students is dealing with the fieldwork for a master/doctoral dissertation project. This is more difficult when the work has to be done overseas in different countries with foreign languages and cultures. This course is designed to explore how we should design a […]
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Dr. Gravlee Anthropology encompasses a dizzying array of substantive areas and theoretical approaches. But no matter your interests, you share at least one thing in common with every other graduate student (in anthropology and beyond): the desire to conduct meaningful research. That means you must master research design. This seminar focuses on elements of research […]
Dr. Davidson Archaeology is the study of the past –people and everything they were, their public acts and private hopes –or at least it is an earnest attempt to “construct” this past through a meticulous examination of material objects, the greater landscape, and the social milieu under which these men, women, and children lived and […]