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By Elizabeth Cychosz ’16 Studying Anthropology, Journalism (HTC), and Museum Studies Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia It’s one week after waving goodbye to Cambodia from a tiny airplane window, and I can finally take myself off my antimalarial medication. Sounds trivial, yes, but today has been a day of reflection. […]

By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia After my first experience working with the Siem Reap Muslim Community Development Organization (SRMCDO), I returned to Phnom Penh to resume research there. After only a few days, I found myself missing the friends I […]

By Morgan Chaney ’10 Anthropology alum studying capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica “Morgan, Morgan, Morgan — are you there?” My radio’s staticky transmission cuts the serenity of the forest like a buzzsaw, startling me out of a meditative hike as I search for my troop. It’s been around seven hours since […]

By OHIO Center for Law, Justice & Culture in Cambodia Last week we had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the Angkor Archaeological Park, comprised of the more than 40 temples and ruins that once made up the capital cities of the Khmer Empire. From the 9th to 15th centuries, this empire […]

By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia Up until this point, we’ve been writing these posts collectively. That’s mostly because we’re all sharing the responsibility of updating you on our travels. But after spending a week in Siem Reap, staying on my own […]

Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, wrote about research by two Ohio University anthropologists on June 15 in an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch titled “Ancient cultures affected by climate change, too.” Climate change must have presented challenges as well as opportunities for ancient cultures […]

Picture Athens County today. Dense forests and rolling hills. But it hasn’t always looked like this. Climate change and human activity have combined, research suggests, to alter the hills of Southeastern Ohio many times over the past 3,000 years. Prairie grassland? Ragweed gardens? Park-like woods without dense undergrowth? Clear-cut forests? […]