Category: Publications
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Oezle co-authors article on early transatlantic movement of horses and donkeys at Jamestown
Associate Professor Vicky Oelze co-authored “Early transatlantic movement of horses and donkeys at Jamestown” in Science Advances, which highlights how Equids were central to the colonization of the Americas. The settlement of the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was among the first to bring horses to the eastern seaboard. An analysis of domestic equid remains…
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Ph.D. candidate Rikki Brown featured in Anthropology News for creative reflection on ethnographic methodologies
Utilizing multi-media sources including audio, photography (by Rowan Twine), and linguistics, Brown discusses how ethnographic practices intersect with sounds and noises, shaping engagements in the field.
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Distinguished Professor Gifford-Gonzalez contributes to five chapters to book on Central Coast Indigenous archaeology
Distinguished Professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez co-authored four chapters in The Study of Indigenous Landscape and Seascape Stewardship on the Central California Coast: The Findings of a Collaborative Eco-Archaeological Investigation, edited by Kent G. Lightfoot, Michael A. Grone, and Gabriel M. Sánchez. This summarizes nearly 20 years’ collaborative investigations into Native land management in pre-colonial times. Chapters…
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Megan Moodie leads two NSF-funded events, publishes in Medical Humanities
Associate Professor Megan Moodie is a co-Principal Investigator on an almost $95,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to hold a cross-subfield anthropology conference. This conference is planned for March 2025 and is titled “Approaches to disability in anthropology: Creating space for convergence and innovation.” She also recently co-authored the paper “Patients as knowledge partners in the…
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The Reparative Work of the Imagination
Assistant Professor Askwak Hauter published ”The Reparative Work of the Imagination” in the American Journal of Islam and Society. The essay and community-based project traces the works of Yemeni artists that meditate on the conditions of the image of the Yemeni as lacking migrants and how it weighs heavily on community, trust, and individual and communal well-being.…
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Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Associate Professor Jon Daehnke co-edited and contributed to this book, published by the University Press of Florida, which examines the interplay of heritage and democracy in practices and institutions across scales of governance. This volume explores cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and…
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Negotiated Cartographies in the Relaciones Geográficas de Indias: The Descripción de la provincia de Yauyos Toda (1586)
Assistant Professor Carla Hernández Garavito published this article in Ethnohistory, where she explores her findings of using spatial modeling to investigate a map from the 16th-century Peruvian Ande. This may allow researchers to explore the way in which Indigenous representations and understandings of the landscape influenced the portrayal of what would otherwise be considered a…
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Addressing the Gap of Nutrition in Medical Education: Experiences and Expectations of Medical Students and Residents in France and the United States
Professor Nancy Chen published this article in Nutrients analyzing nutrition education in U.S. and French medical schools based on interdisciplinary collaboration with a medical sociologist, a medical anthropologist, and a medical doctor. Through ethnographic research, they compare historical contexts of systemic nutrition knowledge and the growing role of culinary medicine, teaching kitchens, and social justice…