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Dr. Chris Wolfe, assistant professor of anthropology, also is a consulting forensic anthropologist with the Regional Autopsy Center at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. In a collaborative effort to bring closure to a 42-year-old missing persons cold case in Washington, N.C., East Carolina University graduate students and faculty were called upon to support local and … Read more
Pursue a Master of Arts or Doctorate degree in Anthropology, specializing in prehistoric/historical archaeology, cultural, biological/physical or linguistic anthropology. Our program will prepare you for your dream career with hands-on research experience led by highly our accomplished faculty. The Anthropology Department’s Master of Arts program offers a robust academic journey that allows students to specialize … Read more
Through a combination of anthropologic research and digital technology, it’s now possible to experience an immersive, 3D representation of a Guatemalan forest inhabited by the Kaqchikel people as it was more than 300 years ago. Dr. Kathryn Sampeck, a professor of anthropology at Illinois State University, and Creative Technologies major Noah Davison collaborated on a … Read more
The Wellesley College website is currently in transition. This temporary site is for current Wellesley College community members. If you’re a prospective student or employee, please go to our new site at www.wellesley.edu. Engaged in questions on the evolution of biological variation and its connections to culture through the fossil record. As an anthropologist, I … Read more
Genocides demand discipline and disciplines. The Holocaust is a prime example of the academisation of genocide. In his 1933 speech at the Nuremberg Nazi party convention, Adolf Hitler employed a creolized language of anthropology, politics and science: National socialism professes… the heroic teaching of evaluating blood, race, and personality as well as the eternal laws … Read more
Episode: 1205 Henry Chapman Mercer: An aristocrat redirects anthropology. Today, a shy aristocrat redirects anthropology. Episode: 1205 Henry Chapman Mercer: An aristocrat redirects anthropology. Today, a shy aristocrat redirects anthropology. Houston Public Media is supported with your gifts to the Houston Public Media Foundation and is licensed to the University of Houston
Research reveals that Neandertals showed care and support for young child BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — A new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, documents the first case of Down syndrome in Neandertals and reveals that they were capable of providing altruistic care and support … Read more
M.A. thesis title: Aquatic Taphonomy: An Analysis of Human Decomposition in Natural Waterways of New York City Ginelle Köcher is a biological anthropology Ph.D. student with interests rooted in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. Her primary interests consist of skeletal trauma analysis of contemporary populations in Brazil, ethics, and the international professionalization of forensic anthropology. She earned … Read more
What makes us human? The Anthropology program at Whitman College can help you examine this universal question. Bridging science and the humanities, the Anthropology major explores how people relate to each other and to the environment. It’s an expansive and comparative study of how people talk, work, pray and play—in other words, how we live. … Read more
In its final report, the American Anthropological Association’s Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains recently outlined principles and recommendations for the field. NEH Professor Michael Blakey, founding director for the W&M Institute for Historical Biology, at Commencement 2024. Blakey served as co-chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Commission for the Ethical Treatment of … Read more