The Anthropology Department is pleased to congratulate Colin Walmsley '15 of Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Canada, who has been named the 78th Rhodes Scholar in Dartmouth's History. As a double major in Anthropology and Government, Colin plans to use the scholarship to pursue a master's degree in social anthropology at Oxford.
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The Anthropology Department congratulates anthropology major Karolina Krelinova ’14, who has been awarded the 2014 Runner-Up Prize by the John Sloan Dickey Center’s Chase Peace Prize committee. Each year, the Dickey Center awards the Peace Prize and Runner-Up Prize to senior theses or culminating projects that address “the subject of war, conflict resolution, the prospects and problems of maintaining peace, or other related topics”
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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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The Anthropology Department extends warm congratulations to Miriam Jerotich '14 of Nairobi, Kenya, who has been named the 76th Rhodes Scholar in Dartmouth's History. As an Anthropology major, Miriam plans to use the scholarship to pursue a master's degree in women's studies at Oxford.
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Christina Danosi '13, a modified Anthropology-Biological Sciences major, has published the results of her reading and research courses, Anth 85 and 87, in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
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