Tags: Department of Anthropology Speaker Series

Dr. Carla Hadden will give a talk, A Matter of Time: The Role of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Building Better Archaeological Chronologies, on Friday, November 8th, from 3:30-5:00 pm in Baldwin Hall room 322. Dr. Hadden is the Director and Research Scientist at Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at the University of Georgia. She is an environmental archaeologist specializing in zooarchaeology with over 13 years of experience in the…

Guest speaker, Dr. John Sherry, will be presenting Anthropology and Innovation in the Technology Industry on Monday, April 10th, at 3:00 pm at the Innovation District Presentation Room (100). This will be followed immediately after by a meet and greet with snacks provided. Dr. John Sherry holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona. He was the first anthropologist hired at Microsoft, and a few years later, at…

Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she received her MA and her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.  She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982. Her pioneering, long-term field research has been…

Listening to the Dead: Biocultural anthropology, violence studies, and the political lives of dead bodies. 

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder is a human behavioural ecologist working on projects relating to life history, conservation, and global patterns of cultural variation. HBE-ers explore the big “Why“ questions about our species, such as why do people marry, what is the basis of gender roles in economic and social behaviour, why has fertility dropped so radically in most parts of the world, why are people such poor conservationists of natural resources,…

Since joining Purdue in 1976, Professor Emeritus Blanton has done approximately 36 months of archaeological fieldwork over many field seasons in Guatemala, Mexico, and Turkey, and has also completed several cross-cultural comparative research projects.  He has reported on this research in twelve books and 67 articles and chapters published through diverse outlets, including Cambridge University Press, Science, American…

“The body is parchment where violence is written.” Ventura Pérez is is a bioarchaeologist whose primary area of interest is interpersonal and institutional forms of violence. His work focuses on cultural representations of violence using an interdisciplinary inquiry that includes social science and behavioral and biological research (specifically skeletal trauma), along with the analysis of artifacts and ethnohistoric research. Pérez’s current…

Torben C. Rick is the curator and archaeologist in the anthropology division of Human Ecology and Archaeobiology in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  He specializes in North American Archaeology and Human Environmental Interactions. Rick conducts research on the North American Pacific Coast, with much of his fieldwork investigating a 13,000 calendar year archaeological record on California’s Channel Islands. Focusing on the…

Read Professor Kelly's faculty page here. His recent book published by the UC press expands upon the themes he'll present in the talk; find the synopsis here.