Post Tagged with: "sociology and anthropology research"

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, authored a chapter on “Hunger and Food Insecurity” in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems edited by A. Javier Treviňo. New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract: In this chapter I examine hunger and food insecurity as social problems. I focus […]

The Food Studies theme congratulates Daniel Williams on receiving the best poster award at this year’s conference of the Society for Economic Botany and the Society of Ethnobiology. Williams is a second-year candidate in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs’ Master of Science in Environmental Studies program. The […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-edited the volume, Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design, which explores changes in the uses and meanings of money in various sites across the Global South. The book, published by Berghahn Books, is part of The Human […]

Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, co-edited a book titled Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (University of Pennsylvania Press). “Resisting Occupation in Kashmir presents new ways of thinking and writing about Kashmir that cross conventional boundaries and point toward alternative ways […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, authored an article on “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption” in Current Anthropology. Abstract: Since 2002, the satirical investigative television show Fiks Fare (“Right On!” or “Exactly”) has aired immediately after prime-time news at a leading national broadcasting […]

Dr. Joseph Gingerich, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, chairs a session: Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of Mobile Peoples and presents “Modeling Discrete Paleoindian Work Areas” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C., this month. The mission of the Society for American Archaeology is to expand understanding […]

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, delivered the keynote address at the fifth annual Northeastern Ohio Undergraduate Sociology Symposium at Oberlin College. The theme of this year’s symposium was #sociology:asrelevantasever. The title of Scanlan’s talk was “Sociology and Its Discontents: The Ongoing Significance, Persistence, and Necessity of the Sociological […]