Debating Darfur

Professor Rogaia AbusharafAssociate Professor of AnthropologySchool of Foreign Service, QatarGeorgetown UniversityRead more about Debating Darfur

Foreign Study

The Department of Anthropology offers a foreign study program (FSP) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only off campus program in the South Pacific, and is held during winter term in Hanover, which is of course summer in New Zealand. Themed around an exploration of "Colonialism and its Legacies," the program offers students intensive introductions to anthropology of the region, and to Maori studies, the Maori being the indigenous people of New Zealand. 

40th Anniversary Celebration Wraps Up With NAS Symposium

Dartmouth will host a group of distinguished academic and tribal scholars and elders for two panel discussions next week as part of a symposium on the “Collaborative Research in the Study of Native American Cultures.” Read more about 40th Anniversary Celebration Wraps Up With NAS Symposium

The symposium is part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Dartmouth’s Native American Studies Program. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Kes Schroer's takes her "Your Inner Chimpanzee's" class climbing

Dartmouth’s Kes Schroer has taken her students on an unusual adventure “in order to put themselves into the mind of a chimpanzee,” she says. “Chimpanzees provide a critical counterpoint for understanding the potential uniqueness of human behaviors.” Read more about Kes Schroer's takes her "Your Inner Chimpanzee's" class climbing

Student Studies Prehistoric Canals in a Mexican Metropolis

Support from the Lucas Family Fund for Undergraduate Research and the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture enabled Andres Mejia-Ramon to conduct investigations at the pre-Columbian metropolis of Teotihuacan.  Read more about Student Studies Prehistoric Canals in a Mexican Metropolis

Andres Mejia-Ramon ’16, with Dartmouth professors Deborah Nichols and John Watanabe; and Peruvian archaeologist Adán Umire Alvarez, explores a tunnel beneath the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan.

Undergraduate Searches for ‘Cultures Lost to Time’

Genevieve Mifflin '14 took part in an archaeological dig this summer at the site of Zincirli Höyük in southern Turkey, where she spent five weeks working with Dartmouth professors Virginia and Jason Herrmann. Read more about Undergraduate Searches for ‘Cultures Lost to Time’

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