When the coronavirus pandemic first hit New Hampshire, many public health leaders worried about the state's rural communities. Smaller towns tend to have more elderly patients and fewer health care resources. Some doctors warned that even a small number of cases could overwhelm the region's hospitals.
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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.
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Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award. The award, established in 2013, recognizes a member of the Human Biology Association, in the early years of her or his career, for a significant contribution to the field of human biology and the promise of future significant contributions.
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The paper is titled, "Peer review at the Ministry of Silly Walks" and it is published in the journal Gait & Posture (available here).
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Dartmouth's Neukom Institute announced next year's class of Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows, recruited out of a pool of 106 applicants. Incoming fellows include Ryan Collins (PhD. 2018) [Anthropology & Geography; Mentors - Deb Nichols, Jesse Casana, and Jonathan Chipman]
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