Department of Anthropology

Using satellite imagery, Prof. Jesse Casana uncovered surprising evidence relating to looting of artifacts in Syria - on both sides of the conflict.

After the devastating earthquakes in Nepal earlier this year, Sienna Craig began to conduct field research in Mustang to understand how communities in the area perceived and dealt with the earthquake.

Dartmouth's Prof. DeSilva is one of the international team members working on the recent discovery that will fill a gap in the chain of human evolution.

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.

Jeff Kahn
May 8, 2015

Canny smugglers, daring migrants, and entrepreneurial spirits all combine to populate the mystically infused land- and seascapes of the Haitian imagination. This talk will examine Haitian cosmologies of mobility and wealth in the wider Caribbean and the alternative visions of circulating value they conjure in the face of external efforts to police and contain the perceived threat of Haitian biological and social disorder.

Alison Brooks and John Yellen
May 1, 2015
Alison S. Brooks (George Washington University) and John E Yellen (National Science Foundation) are members of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program and its Olorgesailie Research Project, both led by Rick Potts. 

Robert Kelly
University of Wyoming
April 23, 2015

Seth Holmes, MD
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology
University of California, Berkley

April 6th, 2015
Rockefeller Center 003
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Seth M. Holmes is a cultural anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which such inequalities are naturalized and normalized in society and in health care. He is Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkley and Director of the Berkley Center for Social Medicine.

Karen Ho
Associate Professor of Anthropologya
University of Minnesota

April 13th, 2015
Rockefeller Center, 002
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

The funding provided by the NGS Waitt Grant will help Venkataraman and Kerby to develop a multi-camera array to measure and study morphological traits of wild primates.