Past Events
"Milk at Altitude"
Spring Colloquium: Dr. Kylie Quave
"Household, Faction, and Political Economy: Developing the Inka Heartland (Maras, Cuzco, Peru)”
Spring Colloquium: Dr. Leslie Reeder-Myers
"Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, and Human Eco-dynamics: Past, Present, and Future"
Spring Colloquium: Dr. Jose Capriles Flores
“Ecological release, paleoenvironmental change and the human peopling of South America: Insights from the Atacama Desert, the Andean highlands, and the Amazonian floodplains”
Global Gun Violence
A panel discussion focused on addressing gun violence
Spring Colloquium: Sarah Baitzel
"The Politics of Death and Identity in an Early Andean State"
Friday Archaeology: Supernova of Complexity: The Paradoxes of Poverty Point, a Late Archaic site in the Mississippi River Valley
Presented by TR Kidder
Friday Archaeology: The origin and spread of Chinese millets: Mixing model estimates of millet consumption in prehistoric China
Presented by Xinyi Liu
Research Funding Resources
Special presentation for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students
Friday Archaeology: Saltiness and Power: trade, niche economies, and Aksumite (50 BCE-900 CE) social organization
Presented by Helina Woldekiros
POSTPONED: Tea with a Professor
with Carolyn Sargent
The True Cost: Who Pays The Price For Our Clothing
Documentary viewing
Break before Break
For Anthropology students and faculty
Friday Archaeology: Prey mortality profiles and two million years of hominid hunting
Presented by Henry Bunn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring Colloquium: Dr. Bernard Wood
"Homo – what, who, when, where?”
N9B SolutionLab
Net Impact and CollaborateUp is hosting an idea-athon
Spring Colloquium: Dr. Brian Larkin
"Generator Life"
PNP Workshop on Decision-Making and Self-Control
This two-day workshop will include a variety of short invited lectures, panel discussions, and working groups.
PB&Joy
Food donations will directly benefit local youth
"American Food Production and Two Slow Motion Ecological Crises"
Tom Philpott, award-winning writer on food politics and correspondent for Mother Jones
Dissertation Defense: Jennifer Heil Heipp
“I’m trying to do the right thing”: Competing Responsibilities Among Teen Parents in the Context of Neoliberalism
Tea with a Professor
with Carolyn Sargent
Dissertation Defense: Andrew Flachs
Cultivating Knowledge: The Production and Adaptation of Knowledge on Organic and GM Cotton Farms in Telangana, India
Friday Archaeology: Investigation of an early Iron Age Irrigated Agricultural Community in Central Asia: New Survey Results at Mohuchahangoukou (MGK), Xinjiang, China
Presented by Yuqi Li
Online Anarchaeology Workshop
Join in the conversation with #anarchaeology2016
Research Poster Session
Anthropology undergraduate students present their research
The 51th Historia Medica: “Goat Gland Messiah: The Bizarre Rise and Spectacular Fall of Dr. John R. Brinkley”
Presented by Dr. Lewis L. Wall
Dissertation Defense: BrieAnna Langlie
Farming during the Auca Runa: Agricultural Strategies and Terraces during the Peruvian Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1100-1450) Altiplano, Peru
Friday Archaeology: Defensive Monumentality and Political Leadership in the late Pre-Columbian Andes
Presented by Professor Elizabeth Arkush, University of Pittsburgh
Religion in the Public Sphere: Case Studies in Hope and Stress
A forum organized by Washington University in St. Louis and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting with support from the Henry Luce Foundation
Dissertation Defense: David Mixter
Surviving Collapse: Collective Memory and Political Reorganization at Actuncan, Belize
Anthropology Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Washington University in St. Louis Commencement
Archaeology Day at Cahokia Mounds
Free public event
Dissertation Defense: Sarah Sobonya
Lactating in St. Louis: Attachments, Technologies, and Disparities
First day of classes
Dissertation Defense: Jenny Epstein
The Violence of Abstraction: Type-2 Diabetes in Everyday Life
Friday Archaeology- Silk, Tea, and Golden Mask: Tibetan Plateau and the Silk Route
Presented by: Huo Wei, Sichuan University
Friday Archaeology- Puzzling Pairs from Pavlov: Mortuary Mores in Ancient Moravia
Presented by: Erik Trinkaus, Piotr Wojtal, Jarosław Wilczyński, Sandra Sázelová, Jiri Svoboda
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Violence and the Logic of Care in Chinese Hospitals
Priscilla Song, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
On Africa and "New World" Blackness
Jemima Pierre, African American Studies and Anthropology, UCLA
Friday Archaeology- Donkey and Cat Domestication: Perspectives from the Margins
Presented by: Fiona Marshall
Friday Archaeology- Recent Investigations at Salinas de Los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: A Major Economic and Ritual Center throughout Maya History
Presented by: Alexander Rivas
Fall 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium Registration
Deadline: September 26
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Legalizing Sin: Moral Reckoning around abortion among Catholic women in Mexico City after recent legalization
Elyse Singer, Graduate Student, Washington University in St. Louis
Fall Colloquium: A Runaway World? Food and Class in the 2nd Millennium BC
Xinyi Liu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Friday Archaeology- Social Zooarchaeology in Mycenaean Greece: Perspectives from Iklaina in the Kingdom of Pylos
Presented by: Dr. Deborah Cosmopoulos
Friday Archaeology- Rescue archaeology in eastern Uganda: Middle Holocene fisher-hunter-gatherers or chicken feed?
Presented by: Mica Jones
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Class-based chronicities of suffering and seeking help: Comparing addiction treatment programs in Uganda
Julia Vorholter, Research Fellow, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: The Underground: The Roots of Urbanism in Bucharest
Bruce O'Neill, Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University
Fall Colloquium: Semi-tropical Wetlands to Semi-arid Drylands: From Origins of Agriculture to the Beginning of the Archaic State
Vern Scarborough, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
Local Food Policy Panel Discussion
Learn about food and social justice issues, food policy, and ways we can meet food demands through local networks
Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China
East Asian Studies program sponsored event
Friday Archaeology- Tianshanbeilu: Isotopic evidence for millet radiation into Xinjiang
Tingting Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Photography Contest Submission Deadline
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: The Creativity of Grace and Faith: A Somali woman's narrative about violence
Anna Jacobsen, Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
New Game in Town: How Chinese Involvement Affects the Governance of Latin America’s Oil Sector
Guest Speaker Barbara Hogenboom, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Friday Archaeology- Clouds of the Moon, Fires of the Sun, Some Reflections of the Feminine Divine as a Source of Rain
Presented by: David Freidel
GlobeMed Speaker: Barbara Pierce Bush, founder of Global Health Corps
"One Person Can Make A Difference: Confronting Today's Global Health Challenges"
Dissertation Defense: Monica McDonald
“How do the largest and smallest baboon species compete for reproductive success in a natural hybrid zone?”
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Pathologizing Haitian Independence: Race, Stereotypes, and the Biopolitics of Recognition
Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT
Fall Colloquium: Wounds of Charity, Haitian Immigrants and Corporate Catholicism in Boston
Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT
Public Lecture: Samer Frangie, Associate Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration, and Director, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, American University of Beirut
"Protests in Lebanon: The 'Trash Uprising' and the End of the Post-War Republic"
Before the Flood: WashU Movie Viewing
Movie widely acclaimed for exposing extensive cover-up of the urgency of climate-related issues
Dissertation Defense: Natalie Mueller
"Seeds as Artifacts of Communities of Practice: The Domestication of Erect Knotweed in Eastern North America"
Friday Archaeology- Dental health in terminal Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Northeast Africa: a pilot study at Wadi Halfa
Presented by Grace Apfeld
Friday Archaeology- Domestication as a Model for Evolutionary Biology
Presented by: Dr. Melinda Zeder
TEDxGatewayArch BOUNCE
TR Kidder Presents: History, climate change and future flooding of the Mississippi
Spring Colloquium: The Natural Variation of the Chimpanzee and Bonobo MHC: Balancing Disease and Reproduction
Emily Wroblewski, Stanford University School of Medicine
Friday Archaeology- Rediscovering North America’s Lost Crops: Seeds as Artifacts
Presented by: Natalie Mueller
Spring Colloquium: Genomic Insights into the Macaque Adaptive Radiation
Timothy H. Webster, Arizona State University
Spring Colloquium: Flexible Social Strategies and Their Fitness Consequences in Primate Societies
Eva Wikberg, University of Calgary
Spring Colloquium: Human Adaptation to Tropical Rainforest Habitats
George Perry, Pennsylvania State University
Library Faculty Book Talk Series: Shanti Parikh
“Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of Aids”
Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan’s Past
Laura Miller, The Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professorship in Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Spring Colloquium: Individual Participation in Collective Group Defense in Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra)
Sarie Van Belle, University of Texas at Austin
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Helen Human
Rehabilitated Ruins
Spring Colloquium: Fruit Syndromes: Do fruit traits match the behavior and sensory adaptations of primate mutualists?
Kim Valenta, McGill University
Terry Lecture: Almost Human- Homo naledi
Speaker: Lee Berger, Research Professor in Human Evolution & the Public Understanding
Spring Colloquium: Plasticity and its Possibilities: The impact of social and ecological factors on primate behavior and physiology
Krista Milich, University of Texas at Austin
Spring Colloquium: Sexy Sounds: Ecological, energetic, and anthropogenic influences on primate male long calls
Wendy Erb, Rutgers University
Global Health Speaker: Linda Garro, UCLA
Hot Breakfast, Salad, and Soul Food: A Health Portrait of an African-American Family Living in a Troubled Los Angeles Community
Spring Colloquium: Primate Frugivore Loss and Their Impacts on Plant Communities in Madagascar's Rainforest
Onja Razafindratsima, Harvard University
Spring Colloquium: Red Sea Exchanges, Agricultural Shifts, and Domestic Chickens in Ancient Africa
Helina Woldekiros, Washington University in St. Louis
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Heather O'Leary
Where the Pipelines End: Water, Urban Development and Resilience in Delhi
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Dominic Boyer
Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution
Spring Colloquium: Sacrifice and Utopia in the Anthropocene
Dominic Boyer, Rice University
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Sherria Ayuandini
Finger Pricks and Blood Vials: How doctors medicalize ‘cultural’ solutions to demedicalize the ‘broken’ hymen in the Netherlands
Milk with Altitude: Early Life Exposures in Tibetan Human Milk
Presented by E.A. Quinn
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Adrienne Strong
Jumping the Red Tape: Administrative workarounds, improvisation, and the social world of rumors in a Tanzanian hospital
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Lynn Morgan
A Fertile Alliance: Reproductive governance, neoliberal reform, and in-vitro fertilization in Costa Rica
Spring Colloquium: Miss Mexico's Dress and the Backlash against Reproductive Rights in Latin America
Lynn Morgan, Mount Holyoke
Research Poster Session
Anthropology undergraduate students present their research
Dr. Jean Hunleth book signing
Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Department Spring Party
For Anthropology students and faculty
Mental Health Conference 2017
Framing (Dis)Orders: Mental Health Institutions as Reflections of Political, Socio-Economic and Moral Orders in Different Historical and Regional Contexts
Book release celebration with Priscilla Song
Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China
Department of Anthropology's Commencement and Reception
First day of classes, Fall 2017
Science Matters Lecture Series: Ira Flatow
In conversation with Climatologists Bronwen Konecky and Gavin Schmidt
CANCELED: Fall Colloquium: Tiffiny Tung, Vanderbilt University
Violence, Food Insecurity, & Body Desecration: A Bioarchaeological & Isotopic Study of Climate Change & Imperial Collapse in the Peruvian Andes
Science Matters Lecture Series: Christian Parenti
The Climate Crisis, Political Pessimism, and Realistic Solutions
Fall Colloquium: James Rilling, Emory University
The Biology of Paternal Behavior
Decentering the West Lecture Presents - ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’
Professor Jafari Allen, University of Miami
GAFS Future of Food Studies Conference
Fall 2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Presentations by Anthropology majors
13th Documentary Viewing and Panel Discussion through the Brown School
Anthropology PhD student, Chelsey Carter, joins the panel
TALK RESCHEDULED: Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania MOVED TO 11/21
The Enchantment Effect: A Semiotics of Boundary and Profit
First the Seed, Still the Seed: Breeding and Property Rights from Mass Selection to CRISPR
Assembly Series Lecture with Dr. Jack Kloppenburg
Free WashU Screening: 'Jane'
On campus screening of documentary on Jane Goodall
Professor Brett Rushforth, "Deep Roots, Long Shadows: Sacagawea, Charbonneau, and the French Empire in Missouri"
2017 Gentry Lecture presented by the History Department
Interior Frontiers: Dangerous Concepts in Our Times
Presented by Ann Laura Stoler Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research
Cross-disciplinary Panel Conversation with artist Thomas Struth
Talia Dan-Cohen will join panel in discussion on the intersection of art, science, and culture
Fall Colloquium: Bradley Stoner, Washington University in St. Louis
Getting Burned: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Anthropology of Everyday Life
GlobeMed’s Hilltop Conference: "Daring to believe in your right to lead"
with Latanya Mapp Frett, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global
Photography Contest 2017
Open to all Washington University in St. Louis undergraduates and Anthropology graduate students
Agri-Food Research Discussion Group
John Bowen workshop on halal food in Europe,
GIS in the Community
Wash U. promotes spatial awareness, geography and geographic information systems (GIS)
Fall Colloquium: Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania
The Enchantment Effect: A Semiotics of Boundary and Profit
Agri-Food Workshop presentation by Lora Iannotti of the Brown School
"The Nutritional Value of Traditional Diets: Animal source foods in Ecuador and Kenya"
Agri-Food Workshop presentation by Tore C. Olsson
Roots of the Green Revolution: How the American South Became the Unlikely Laboratory for New Methods of Food Production
Colloquium Series: Crystal Biruk, Oberlin College
Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World
"Sighted Eyes Feeling Heart" free documentary screening
AFAS presents a new documentary about Horraine Hansberry
Colloquium Series: Ugo Edu, UC Davis
Beauty and the Black: Aesthetic Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil
Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology Speaker Series: Krista Milich
Pri-mating: Social and ecological influences on primate sexual behaviors and physiology
Science on Tap: EA Quinn and Geoff Childs Discuss Research
Milk with Altitude: At the Intersection of Biology and Culture in the Himalayas
Colloquium Series: Kwame Edwin Otu, University of Virginia
Normative Collusions, Amphibious Evasions: Sassoi and the Contested Queer Self-Making
Colloquium Series: Kimberley D. McKinson, University of Georgia
The Metallurgical Metropolis: Excavating the Aesthetics and Politics of Insecurity in Urban Jamaica
Colloquium Series: Saiba Varma, UC San Diego
Bonds of Love: Military and Humanitarian Adventures in Kashmir
Anthropology Major & Minor Welcome
Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology Speaker Series: Emily Wroblewski
A Tale of Two Pan: MHC Immunogenetic Variation and Disease in Wild Chimpanzee and Bonobo Populations
Agri-Food Workshop presentation by Jan Salick
The Narragansett Food Sovereignty Initiative
Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road
Michael Frachetti presents through The Long Now Foundation
Making Migrants Matter: The Migrant Domestic Workers Movement in Canada
WGSS Presentes Guest Speaker Ethel Tungohan
Colloquium Series: Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution
Environments and Ecology in East African Human Evolution
Wastelands of the Permanent War Machine: the Domestic Ruins of the American Military Industrial Complex
Joshua Reno, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University
Colloquium Series: Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA
Ritual Reforms in Late Bronze Age China
How Oil Makes Ecosystems: The Political Ecology of Ruin and Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico
Valerie Olson Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Colloquium Series: Tiffiny Tung, Vanderbilt University
Violence, Food Insecurity, & Body Desecration: A Bioarchaeological & Isotopic Study of Climate Change & Imperial Collapse in the Peruvian Andes
Menstrual Equity: Expanding Women's Rights
Panel discussion with Freweini Mebrahtu and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Colloquium Series: Gina Perez, Oberlin College
Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream
The Anthropology of Care: A Discussion
Featuring: Dr. Mutale Chileshe, Copperbelt University School of Medicine, Zambia and Dr. Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Anthropology Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Anthropology Spring Party
APIDA Recognition Ceremony
Dr. Priscilla Song, Keynote Speaker
Anthropology Departmental Graduation & Celebration
Wandering into Global Health
The Institute for Public Health Summer Research Program Seminar Series featuring Professor Lewis Wall
Integration of Endogenous and Exogenous Agricultural Systems: Domestic Chickens and Biodiversity in Ancient Africa
Join the Living Earth Collaborative/EEPB Biodiversity Seminar Series for a presentation by Helina S. Woldekiros, Assistant Professor with the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
Agri-Food Workshop Speaker Judith Carney to deliver "Seeds of Memory: Food Legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade"
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Judith Carney, Professor with the Department of Geography at UCLA
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis
"Performativity and Materiality in Halal Certification"
Fall 2018 Colloquium Series: Peter Benson, Washington University in St. Louis
"Open Letters and Open Wounds: An Anthropological Love Story"
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Anita Hardon, University of Amsterdam
“Valuing Supplements in Conditions of Precarity”
Agri-Food Workshop Speakers Corinna Treitel and Venus Bivar to deliver "Food and Fascism in Germany and France"
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Corinna Treitel, Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis and Venus Bivar, Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Agri-Food Workshop Speaker Glenn Stone to deliver "Cornmeal and Eugenics in the Blue Ridge"
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Glenn Stone, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Monica Eppinger, SLU Law
"Disintegration: Popular Sovereignty, Law, and the Crisis of Representation in Ukraine"
Fall 2018 Colloquium Series: Jeffrey Fleisher, Rice University
"The Archaeology of Public Space from the Ground Up: The Case of Songo Mnara, Tanzania"
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Bret Gustafson, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Battle Over Excess: Gas, Surplus and Redistribution in Bolivia"
Fall 2018 Colloquium Series: Chris Kirk, University of Texas at Austin
"Primate Special Senses—An Evolutionary Perspective"
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Joe Bosco, Washington University in St. Louis
"Birds and Red Beans: Pesticide Use and Misuse in Taiwan"
Agri-Food Workshop Speaker Cassie Adcock to deliver "Engineering the Sacred Cow: Cattle, Food and Politics in North India"
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Cassie Adcock, Associate Professor, Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Fall 2018 Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Elizabeth Davis, Princeton University
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Fall 2018 Colloquium Series: Elizabeth A. Davis, Princeton University
“ 'The Time of the Cannibals’: Propaganda and 'Conspiracy Theory' in Cyprus and Beyond"
Sustaining Community, Sustaining State: An Archaeology of Food, Farming, and Power in the Prehispanic Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru
Dana N. Bardolph, Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies, Cornell University
The Evolution of Agrobiodiversity: Experimental and Archaeological Approaches
Natalie G. Mueller, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
Shorelines and Seeds: Histories of climate change and sustainable agricultural landscapes on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes (1500 BCE-1000 CE)
Maria C. Bruno, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dickinson College
Alternative Food Production: Ferguson and Beyond
Scott Krummenacher; Environmental Studies, Sustainability Exchange and Rachel Levi; Earthdance Farm, Ferguson, MO
Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Interaction, and Human Adaptation in the Andes
Sonia Zarrillo, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
Traces of Restraint: Coercive Practice and Nazi Haunting in Contemporary German Psychiatry
Lauren Cubellis, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Potters, Weavers and Pastoralists: Durability and Change Among Bronze Age Communities Across Asia
Dr. Paula Doumani Dupuy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
From Social to Ecological Networks: How Network Structure Influences Disease Transmission Within and Across Species
Charles Nunn, Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and the Global Health Institute, Duke University
How the West Was Won: State Formation in Greece and the Bronze Age Capital of Iklaina
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Beyond Salafism: A View from Koenigshoffen, Strasbourg
Oguz Alyanak, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Fossil Capital and Revolutionary Affectation
Bret Gustafson, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Catastrophe and Opportunity During El Niño Disasters: Lessons for the Future
Benjamin Vining, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
Ethnographic Futures
Preliminary Research at Haimenkou, Yunnan, China
T.R. Kidder, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Ximena Lemoine, Graduate Student of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Caitlin Rankin, Graduate Student of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Anthropology Ethnographic Theory Workshop
Peter Redfield, Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Small Fixes: Humanitarian Design in a Broken World
Peter Redfield, Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comparing the tempo of cereal dispersal and the agricultural transition: Trajectories from Africa and West Asia
Dorian Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany, UCL Institute of Archaeology
Anthropology Ethnographic Theory Workshop
Amy Cooper, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, St. Louis University
Anthropology Friday Archaeology
Cahokian Women: Foods, Fields, and Feasts
Revanchist Kigali
Sam Shearer, Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
Partial stories: Maternal Death in Malawi
Claire Wendland, Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monsanto Trials and Monsanto Papers: A Critical Eye on Industry Influence and Pesticide Science
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Carey Gillam, Investigative Journalist, and author of Whitewash: The Story of a WeedKiller, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science.
Crops of the Past and Future
Join the Agri-Food Workshop for a presentation by Natalie Mueller, Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Allison Miller, Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University.
Proving halal: Knowledge, networks, and the state across Western Europe
John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Aging and survival in the natural world: insights from wild baboons
Susan Alberts, Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
Fieldnotes on the Future of Food Production
Bradley Jones, Graduate Student of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and James Babbitt, Graduate Student of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
Halal Food: Global Linkages and Controversies
Bahia Munem, Postdoctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and Lauren Crossland-Marr, Graduate Student of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West
Michael Harrower, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Diet and Indigenous Resilience in South America
Carlos Andres Gallegos, PhD candidate, Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto, EHESS, Paris
'Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland'
How Women's Subsistence Work Shapes Biology: Impacts of Shodagor Women's Work on Health and Development
Kathrine Starkweather, NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New Mexico
History as Image: Picturing a Collective Subject Through History
Stephen McIsaac, Lecturer in Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
The Energetics of Uniquely Human Subsistence Strategies
Thomas Kraft, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Permeability and Precarity: Gut Function, Immune Function, and Tradeoffs in Infant Growth in Highland Peru
Morgan Hoke, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Parasitic Disease Among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador: Testing Household Infection Patterns and Life History Trade-Offs
Theresa Gildner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
"Porn feels different than it looks”: Porn Work On Set
Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Contagious Affects: Fear and Biosecurity in the Age of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Katharina Rynkiewich, Graduate Student of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Faculty Book Talk: Rebecca Lester
The Ritualized Landscapes of the Andean Coast in the 1st millennium BC
Charles Stanish, Professor, University of South Florida
*CANCELED* Habilitative Care: Technologies of Potentiality and Disability after Zika in Brazil
Eliza Williamson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
*CANCELED* With Compliments From the Housewives: Settler Colonialism and Contesting White Public Space in Nairobi
Meghan Ference is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College. She teaches undergraduate courses in urban and economic anthropology. Her research interests broadly explore how the built environment impacts social relationships, particularly regarding transportation infrastructure in the urban environment.
Professor Ference graduated with a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013.
*CANCELED* Legacies of Inclusion: The Immigrant Second Generation from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood
Cynthia Feliciano, Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
*CANCELED* Guardians of the Body-Territory: A Public Symposium and Exhibit with Mirtha Villanueva and Patricia Schuba
*CANCELED* War, Diasporas, and Un/Re-rooted Familial Geographies
Bahia Munem, Postdoctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
*CANCELED* “Cut and Sew”: Migration, Crisis, and Belonging in an Italian Fast-Fashion Zone
Elizabeth Krause, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anthropology Major-Minor Fair
The Criminal Records Complex: Hiring and Job Seeking in the Age of Mass Conviction
Melissa Burch, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa
Sada Mire, Executive Director, Horn Heritage Foundation
African Experience in the Americas: Genetic Perspectives of Afro-descendants in Puerto Rico
Jada Benn Torres, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Human Ecodynamics and the Development of Monumentality on the Coastal Central Andes
Ana Cecilia Mauricio, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Where Are All the Black People At?
Kathryn Mariner, University of Rochester
Global Perspectives Panel: COVID & Leadership
Join four scholars, scientists, political and community leaders, all of whom are leaders in COVID-related public and community health globally.
Moderator: Sammi O’Reilly, Washington University in St. Louis
The Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Gary Schwartz, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
From fossils to machines: 3D imaging and artificial intelligence in paleoanthropology
Tesla Monson, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, Director of the Primate Evolution Lab, Western Washington University
Evolution and variation in Pleistocene Homo
Karen Baab, Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University
Hybrids, Chance, and Adaptation: Investigating Evolutionary Process in Human Evolution
Lauren Schroeder, University of Toronto, Mississauga
The Evolution of Bipedal Posture and Locomotion in the Human Lineage
Dr. Scott A. Williams, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Science in Strange Times: A Pandemic Presentation on Primate Obesity and COVID-19
Dr. Christopher Schmitt, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, Boston University
Amazonian Dark Earths, Polyculture Agroforestry Systems, and their Modern Legacy
Dr. José Iriarte, Professor of Archeology, University of Exeter, UK
Praxis in Anthropology/Medicine: Liminality in the Clinic and the Field
Dr. Puneet Sahota, MD, Ph.D., National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA); Assistant Professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
The Gastronomic Revolution and Other Stories of Race and Coloniality in Peru
Dr. María Elena García, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Fat and Dirty: Biocultural Studies of Water, Food, and Stigma
Alexandra Brewis, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Center for Global Health, Arizona State University
Intellectual Activism in Anthropology: Translation, Value, and the Politics of Engagement
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland and Addis Ababa University
Global Mental Health, Stigma, and Health Inequities: Fifteen Years of "Moral Experience"
Lawrence Yang, Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University
Engineering Ecosystems: The Evolving Role of Hominins in their Environments
Amelia Villaseñor, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
Race, Justice, and the Ecological Legacy of the Plantation in Southern Louisiana
Justin Hosbey, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Sick of Race: How Racism Harms Health and Misleads Medicine
Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida
Fossil Apes and Human Evolution
Kelsey Pugh, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History
"A Slow Moving Hurricane": Infrastructures of Environmental Racism in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Brian Walter, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Martial Matters: Race, Hazard, and Debility in the Suburb
Emma Shaw Crane, Fellow, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
New Insights on the Emergence of Human Upright Walking
Thomas Cody Prang, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University
Eating While Black
Psyche Williams-Forson, Professor and Chair, American Studies, University of Maryland & Rafia Zafar, Professor of English, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Digital Advancements in Reconstructing Hominin Shoulder Evolution
Stephanie Melillo, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst University
Crisis in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future
The Office of the Provost and Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective, Department of History, invite you to join a thoughtful discussion with a panel of distinguished Washington University faculty members.
Waterscapes of the Late Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley
Grace Ward, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Pastoral
Lisa Powell, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Sweet Briar College & Howard Sacks, Kenyon College Founder/Director, Rural Life Center
What Happened Next? Relatively Few Superhighways Directed the Initial Peopling of Sahul
Stefani A. Crabtree, Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University
Microbiopolitics Now in U.S. Food Safety and Beyond
Heather Paxson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Superalimentos
Matt Abel, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis & Emma McDonell, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The Origins of Inequality: An Analysis of a Contemporary Myth
David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL)
Disability in Brazil: Experiences, Arts, Activisms
This virtual panel features presentations by disabled Brazilian scholars, artists, and activists working towards disability visibility and justice.
Wild Sang
Kate Farley, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Twenty Years of Excavations at Amheida/Trimithis, a Graeco-Roman Polis in Egypt's Western Desert
Dr. Nicola Aravecchia, WUSTL Department of Classics and Department of Art History and Archaeology
Finding Your Way in the Field
Kyle G. Olson, Lecturer in Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
From Garden Cities to Isolated Households: Multi-level Settlement Scaling and Ancient Maya Urbanism
Adrian Chase, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and Department of Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
The Hole: An Ethnographic Descent into Mexico City’s Anexos
Angela Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Climb High and Dig Deep: Geoarchaeological Investigations at Haimenkou
Su Kai, Graduate Student of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
What I Learned about Plants Last Summer: Reflections on Fieldwork in Tacna, Peru
Megan Belcher, Graduate Student of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Archaeology in Kazakhstan: My Research, Personal Experoence, Methods, and Challenges
Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova, Graduate Student of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Tracking a Killer: Using Ancient DNA to Understand The Evolutionary History of Tuberculosis
Anne C. Stone, Regents’ Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Chronicles of War Biology East of the Mediterranean
Omar Dewachi, Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology, Rutgers University
“The Brain is a Box of Surprises”: Habilitating Bodyminds and Caring for Potential After Zika in Bahia, Brazil
Eliza Williamson, Lecturer, Latin American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Strangelove or: I had to do it and learn to love Hanford
Benjamin J. Deans, Department of Anthropology
The Next Generation of Therapists: Migration, Belonging, and Mental Health Care in France
David Ansari, Bridge to the Faculty Scholar, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Testimony as Transformation: Culturally- and Spiritually-Adapted Narrative Therapy among Cambodian Genocide Survivors
Elena Lesley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Science, Technology, and International Affairs; Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; Georgetown University
Syndemics: Meditations on theory, practice, and politics
Emily Mendenhall; Professor; Science, Technology, and International Affairs; Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; Georgetown University
Not the Body, Not the Mind: Functional Disorders, Unexplained Symptoms and the Ubiquity of Social Distress
Dr. Maddalena Canna; Postdoctoral Fellow; Northwestern University
The Experience: Cathartic Writing, Collectivity, and Care Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
Angela Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Subaltern Epistemologies of Health: Collaborative Ethnographies from Colombia
Cesar Abadia-Barrero, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
Friday Archaeology: Building a Regional Narrative in the Bronze Age Country of Towns
Friday Archaeology: Effects of Food Preparation and Labor Organizations on Domesticated Millet in Ancient China (8000-1000 B.P.)
Presented by Yufeng Sun
Friday Archeology: "Peopling the Tibetan Plateau: What do we know and how do we know it?"
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of UC-Merced
CANCELLED Friday Archaeology: Cultural Pluralism in Domestication: A long view from the east.
Dr. Xinyi Liu, Washington University in St. Louis
Land Use and Use Rights: Archaeological Perspectives of Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Simon Fraser University
Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Cool People Are Going to Present Cool Research on Anthropology!
The Anthropology of Anxiety
Nutsa Batiashvili, Free University of Tbilisi
Katie Hejtmanek, Brooklyn College
Susan Lepselter, Indiana University
Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis
Friday Archaeology: Open Often and Early
A conversation on consultation between Tribal Nations and archaeologists in eastern North America.
Spring Party
We're just having fun before the semester ends.
Anthropology Open House
Friday Archaeology Social!
Fall Kickoff Party
Friday Archaeology
Friday Archaeology presents: An Archaeological “Polycrisis”?
Friday Archaeology
Khiara Bridges Keynote Address
Join us for a keynote address from Khiara Bridges,Anthropologist and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
Embodied Inequality & Gender/Sex Diversity: Challenging Binary Concepts as Social Determinants of Health
The End of Çatalhöyük and Archaeology in the Time of Climate Change
Presented by Dr. Peter Biehl, Vice Provost & Professor of Archaeology University of California Santa Cruz
Humanitarian Danger and Palestinian Life in Gaza
Ilana Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University