Tags: Department of Anthropology Speaker Series

On Thursday, January 23rd, 5:30 PM at Ciné (234 W. Hancock Ave), Dr. Todd Braje will discuss Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Our Past Can Guide Our Future. Drawing from examples in his new book, Understanding Imperiled Earth, Braje makes connections between history and today’s hot-button environmental news stories to reveal how the study of our ancient past can help us build a more sustainable and resilient future.  

A talk by Dr. Kristin Philips "Making & Breaking Homes in Georgia's Black Belt: Energy, Utility Bills, & the Infrastructures of Belonging" Abstract: For many comfortable middle-income households, paying the electricity bill is a mundane, even mindless, act. But for an increasing number of families in the United States, the electricity bill—filtered through the racialized materiality of poor-quality and energy-inefficient housing stock,…

A talk by  Dr. Todd Braje   How Chinese Immigrants Built and Lost a Shellfish Industry: Social and Environmental Lessons from California History   Abstract: In the midst of the California Gold Rush, a small group of enterprising Chinese immigrants recognized the untapped resources along the Pacific Coast. Freed from both human and sea otter predation for decades, coastal California was teeming with abalone stocks. By the mid-…

A talk by Dr. Emily Zavodny:   Surf and Turf: zooarchaeometry as a tool for understanding the role of environment in shaping past risk-management systems in Croatia and Florida   Abstract: Understanding how humans navigated their environments in the past can inform modern strategies for increasing resilience and sustainability. Zooarchaeometric studies- traditional faunal analyses coupled with stable isotopic data- provide an…

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…