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Kelsie Geyer ’12 went to New Orleans for several months in 2017 to volunteer with local Red Cross chapter, New Orleans-Southeastern Louisiana. Her dream job has always incorporated the idea of helping communities overcome or prepare for whatever environmental challenges they may face. It wasn’t until after her first Red […]

Both recipients of the Ohio University Sociology & Anthropology Department’s Outstanding Senior Awards are Food Studies theme students. Joy Kostansek and Patrick Fahey were selected by the department faculty due to their exemplary commitment to their studies. Both Kostansek and Fahey will be receiving the Food and Society Certificate upon […]

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. Gene Ammarell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, presented “Mindfulness Practice in Socially Engaged Ethnographic Fieldwork” at the 1st Social Sciences, Humanities, and Economics Conference at the Universitas Negeri Surabaya in Surabaya, Indonesia in November 2017. The conference theme was “Promoting Social Change for Sustainable Development Goals.” Ammarell’s paper was published […]

During her freshman year, Abigail Guerra ’18 learned about the Human Rights, Law & Justice spring break program in Northern Ireland during a meeting with Dr. Haley Duschinski. Taking the course, which focuses on the post-conflict transition of Northern Ireland after its long legacy of violence and human rights abuses, […]

Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presents “Renewed explorations of the Mid-Pleistocene site, Isimila, Tanzania” at a joint meeting this month of the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin, Texas. The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature […]