News and Events
Highlighted here are newsworthy items, colloquia, lectures and events that are of special relevance and interest to anthropology.
Please see the menu to the side for regular department seminars open to the public, the department newsletter, posters on display, and other events links. All events have been posted to the Anthropology Calendar. To access and download the public calendar please click here
Dissertation Colloquium/Defense
Sarah Van Hoy
"Authenticity, depth and healing at the end of the world: an auto-ethnography of Chinese medical practices"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Communications 226
3:30-5:30pm
Dissertation Colloquium
Henry F. Lyle III
"Collective action and social networks in Andean Peru"
Friday, March 5, 2010
Denny Hall, 206
3:00-4:00pm
In the News
For those of you who are interested in food studies on campus, you might want to take note of a new social networking site set up by students: http://uw-food.ning.com/
There is a link on the site that will also take you to the UW Farm's webpage: http://students.washington.edu/uwfarm/
The bag lunch series is always on Tuesdays, 12:30, Guggenheim 218
In the News
The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize was established by the Society for Medical Anthropology to promote excellence in research on gender and health. The Basker Prize is made annually to scholars from any discipline or nation, for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the preceding three years. The Basker Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to scholarship in the area of gender and health.
This year's recipient of the Basker Prize is Janelle Taylor, for her book “Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption and the Politics of Reproduction.” She was presented with this award at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Congratulations, Janelle!!!
Please click here to read more on the Basker Prize.
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Michelle Kleisath, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, has an article about the NGO she co-founded to empower Tibetan women and their communities through grassroots development in the December edition of A &S Perspectives.
Please click here to read the article in A&S Perspectives.
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Jason De León, lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, has an article about his course Anthropology of Rock and Roll in the December edition of A &S Perspectives.
Please click here to read the article in A&S Perspectives.
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Steve Harrell, professor in the Department of Anthropology, and several of his students created an NGO in the Liangshan, or Cool Mountain, region of southwestern China, whose purpose is to fund education. To read more about the Cool Mountain Education Fund click here. An article on the fund is in the December edition of A&S Perspectives.
Please click here to read the article in A&S Perspectives.
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Mary Abrums, a former PhD from the Department of Anthropology, and current associate professor at the School of Nursing on the UW Bothell campus, has just come out with a new book on poverty and faith entitled Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church.
Please click here to read the article in UWeek..
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Noel Chrisman, an adjunct with the anthropology department, will receive the George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in early December. The Award “recognizes those who have made significant contributions to applying theory and methods in medical anthropology (particularly in diverse contexts), to multidisciplinary audiences and with some impact on policy.”
It is one of the three “Career Awards” given by the Society for Medical Anthropology to recognize long term contributions to the field.
Interestingly enough, George Foster was one of Noel’s professors when he was in graduate school, where he specialized in applied anthropology. (Berkeley did not have a course in medical anthropology until after he received his PhD.)
Congratulations, Noel!
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Jessica Johnson, a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology, is the recipient of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology's 2009 Student Paper Prize Competition for an article based on her dissertation entitled "Masculinity, War, and Sacrifice at Home."
The award will be made at the upcoming AAA meeting, please click here for more information.
Congratulations Jessica!
In the News
Anthrosource keeps track of the number of times anthropology publications are downloaded, and they just released a list of the most frequently downloaded articles in 2009.
And note that in the top 25, there are *four* UW anthropologists:
Coming in at #4 is Janelle Taylor, On Recognition, Caring and Dementia.
At #12 is James Pfeiffer (with Mark Nichter), What can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health?
And at #15 is Bettina Shell-Duncan, From Health to Human Rights: Female Genital Cutting and the Politics of Intervention.
And at #20 is Susan Reynolds Whyte, Health Identities and Subjectives.
Congratulations UW Faculty and Alumni!
To see the full list click here
Anthropology Graduation Ceremony, 2009
We are overjoyed to annouce the class of 2009, and congratulate them all to a successful future.
The Anthropology Department Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday, June 12th, 2009. To see photos from the event, please click below:
Click here to see photos from the 2009 graduation ceremony
Undergraduate and Graduate Track in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)
****New****
The Anthropology Department is pleased to announce a brand new undergraduate and graduate track called
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)
The new program provides training at both the undergraduate and graduate level via the following avenues:
* Undergraduate Track in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
* Graduate Study in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
* Concurrent MPH/PhD Program
Exploring phenomena from the molecular to the global level, MAGH integrates approaches from social, cultural, medical and biocultural anthropology into a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing local and global health issues. With anthropology faculty renowned for their scholarship on population and health, and links to programs across campus addressing global health, the area of emphasis provides a venue for new insights, new approaches and new opportunities for understanding human health and well-being.
To find out more about this exciting new program, visit the MAGH web page.