A "New York Times" reviewer writes that in DeSilva's new book, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human," the associate professor of anthropology "proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species ... neatly braiding his own research with the wider narrative and history of human evolution."

Dartmouth professor, Sienna Craig, in collaboration with anthropologists from several other institutions was awarded a competitive Social...

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit New Hampshire, many public health leaders worried about the state's rural communities. Smaller towns...

Anthropology Associate Professor, Sienna Craig, has received funding for a project to address the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the outbreak. "Structural Inequality and Epidemiological Invisibility: Himalayan New Yorkers Respond to COVID-19" is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, The Endangered Language Alliance, and University of British Columbia.

The paper is titled, "Peer review at the Ministry of Silly Walks" and it is published in the journal Gait & Posture ( available here)...