The Faculty of the Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the appointments of Jesse Casana, Assoc. Professor; Jeremy DeSilva, Assoc. Professor; Sabrina Billings, Senior Lecturer; and Jennifer Carballo, Visiting Professor from Harvard University.
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In an article for Pacific Standard, Associate Professor Sienna Craig discusses the discovery of distinct genetic traits among Tibetans living at high altitude, how these traits can inform advances in medicine, and the challenges of communicating medical science across cultures.
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Dartmouth biological anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy and his colleagues provide elegant insight into ancient Egyptian ecology in their most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology John Watanabe, who studies the Maya peoples of Guatemala and Mexico, has been traveling to a venue outside of his specialty area to shepherd Dartmouth undergraduates through the cultural landscape of New Zealand
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A team-teaching collaboration between a Dartmouth College anthropologist and a Geisel School of Medicine infectious-disease expert turned out to be an educational experience for both the students and the faculty.
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