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.
Dissertation Defense
An Epidemiological and Evolutionary Investigation of Mother-Offspring Vitamin A Transfer
Masako Fujita
Biocultural Anthropology
Thursday, July 24th
2:30 pm
Denny Hall, 401
Undergraduate and Graduate Track in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH)
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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.
Archaeology Field School
****Apply Now ****
for the Winter Quarter 2009 Archaeology Field School in Indonesia
Earn 12 UW credits and learn archaeological field methods, including survey, excavation, field analysis, and film/video documentation, in the fascinating country of Indonesia. The course provides preliminary intensive Indonesian language training in Yoygyakarta, followed by archaeological training in the Banda Islands.
Click Here For More Information and Application Materials
Anthropology Graduation Ceremony 2008: Photos
View photos from the Anthropology Graduation Ceremony held in spring 2008. The event was coordinated by the Graduation Ceremony Committee, chaired by Director of Student Services Diane Guerra.
Anthropology Undergraduate Awards
Announcing the winners of the Curtis Wienker Anthropology Awards for Undergraduate Students:
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Best Honors Thesis in Anthropology 2007-2008
Winner: Nathan Miles
Thesis Title: "Host Community Experience of Drug Tourists
in Santa Maria Xochitlan, Oaxaca , Mexico"
Advisor: Dr. Bettina Shell-Duncan
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Best Anthropology Essay Awards 2007-2008
Sociocultural Winner(s)
This year there was a tie:
“Once Bitten” a blog about FOOD”
Chad Larson
Course: Anth 361
Professor: Dr. Ann Anaganost
“Kawaii” On-line project
Alex Urmeneta
Course:Anth 469
Professor: Dr. Sasha Welland
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Biocultural Winner
“Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Humans and Non-Human Primates:
implications for the Future of the Disease”
Rachel Wilbur
Course: BIO A 469
Professors: Drs. Lisa Jones-Engel and Laura Newell.
In the News
Did Walking on Two Feet Begin with a Shuffle?
Read about UW Anthropology Professor Patricia Kramer's research in the Science Daily on the energetics of walking and shuffling and how bipedalism may have evolved in the human line.
In the News
New Faculty Book:
Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying
James W. Green
University of Pennsylvania Press
More Information
In the News
In the Race to the Top, Zigzagging is more Efficient than a Straight Line
Archaeology Assistant Professor Marcos Llobera is in the news these days as a result of his recently published research in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. Find out more at the following sites:
http://www.physorg.com/news122733534.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3412581.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23297119/
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080222-zigzag-better.html
In the News
Recent post in New Mandala’s series of interviews with academics, activists and writers who contribute to major debates in mainland Southeast Asian Studies. The tenth in New Mandala’s series of discussions with prominent personalities is with Professor Charles Keyes.
Read the interview here.
Anthropology Graduation Ceremony 2007: Photos
View photos from the Anthropology Graduation Ceremony held in spring 2007. The event was coordinated by the Graduation Ceremony Committee, chaired by Director of Student Services Diane Guerra.
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Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
Co-edited by Ylva Hernlund and Associate Professor Bettina Shell-Duncan
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Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
By Professor Stevan Harrell (author), Ma Lunzy (author), and Bamo Ayi (author)
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In the News
UWeek published an article focusing on the work of Affiliate faculty member and King County Department of Transportation archaeologist Tom Minichillo. The article spotlights a co-authored publication that appears in Nature. The Nature article reports new findings that move back the timeline for the evolution of modern humans, and shows that lifestyles focused on coastal habitats and resources may have been crucial to the evolution and survival of these early humans.
Read the article here.
Luce Fellowship and UW SE Asian Archaeology Program
The UW anthropology department has a program in SE Asian Archaeology, in collaboration with the UW Museology Program, Libraries and the Asian Law Center. The new program is offering a graduate fellowship for students studying the archaeology of Southeast Asia.
For more information
Read more about it in University Week
In the News
Columns Magazine recently published an article regarding the work of anthropology Assistant Professor Dr. Peter Lape.
The article focuses on the collaborative research that Peter Lape (along with Robert Kopperl, PhD 2003, and others) is doing with local tribes. The article spotlights Native American traditional diets, reservation diets, diabetes, and wellness, and the challenges of making archaeology useful to Native Americans.
Read the article here.
Getting Together: Photos from the Anthropology Outreach Event
Best Undergraduate Honor's Thesis and Best Undergraduate Essays for 2006-2007
The thesis and essays winners of this year's "Curtis Wienker Undergraduate Prizes" are listed here!
Anthropology Teaching and Mentoring Awards
(from the Anthropology Graduate Students)
Teaching Award
Dr. Gerald Eck
Mentoring Award
Dr. Rachel Chapman
In the News
UWTV recently interviewed anthropology Assistant Professor Dr. Rachel Chapman.
The interview focuses on the intertwining of work and personal experience in Dr. Chapman's research on why ethnicity and race have such a bearing on a person’s life chances. Her research seeks to illuminate the social and cultural factors that hinder access to quality health care for vulnerable and impoverished women, both in Africa and in the United States.
Read the interview with Dr. Chapman here.
In the News
Anthropology Director of Student Services, Diane Guerra, is featured on the cover, and in an article, of UW A&S Perspectives Magazine.
The article is about the UW Exploration Seminars this year, and has some great photos of Diane! See also Diane's blog about her trip with an undergraduate Exploration Seminar class to Senegal and the Gambia in August 2006.
Second Semi-Annual Breadth in Anthropological Research (BAR) Conference
Seattle Archaeology
Visit the new Burke Museum Web Exhibit on
The West Point Archaeological Site (near Discovery Park):
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/westpoint/
This site provides a wealth of information on the cultural background, archaeological methods, and natural science of this site, from archaeologists, Native Americans (Muckleshoot, Suquamish and Tulalip), geologists, and students.
The website has also been selected as a "Competition Winner" in the Information Design category of the CommArts Interactive Design Annual 2006 juried competition. It will also be featured in the September/October issue of Communication Arts.
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