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ANTH 327(10775): Media Ethnography, Living Archives

Spring 2025 What is an archive? What gets archived by and for whom? What does it mean to preserve a collection of photographs, songs, recipes, audio, video, or any other kind of media? In this class, students take these questions as starting points for inquiries that bring ethnographic methods into conversation with arts-based research in two video projects—one group, one individual—addressed to alternative histories of topics they choose and develop over the semester.  Read More

ANTH 343/HIST 302: Heritage Archaeology

Spring 2025 Throughout the course we will explore issues such as current threats to cultural heritage, the roles of public opinion and tourism in the protection and interpretation of cultural heritage, impacts of development, questions of authenticity and identity, international law, ethics, and emerging and non-traditional areas of the field. Read More

ANTH 255: Culture, Performance, and Personal Narrative

Spring 2025 This course will look at personal narratives—the stories people tell about their own lives and experiences—as objects of artistic expression and sites for the formation of individual and social identity. As new technologies allow artfully told firsthand experiences to reach ever more remote publics, how do personal narratives operate on a more-than-personal scale, influencing journalism, law, medicine, and global politics? Read More

MDED 505: Intersubjectivity

Spring 2025 This graduate course examines the human fact of our dependence upon others, particularly in situations of physical, social or emotional vulnerability and precariousness. We will consider specifically how people’s lives, hopes and fragilities are shaped by the experience of chronic illness or disability. Read More

REL 485: Transnational Religion

Spring 2024 How do living religions move across space and take on new characteristics in new places? How has the concept of indigenous religion been changed by refugee migrations and displacements? How do new forms of spirituality merge with tourism or terrorism? These are all questions for an anthropological perspective on transnational religion Read More

FRENCH 260gp: Global Women’s Narratives

Spring 2024 In this experiential learning course, students will take part in a multifaceted exploration of global women’s narratives of the past and the present. Using the Francophone world as a literary and cultural anchor, this course asks students to engage with the theory and practice of women’s narrative storytelling, especially as it applies to “minor” narratives, that is, those not issuing from official spaces of knowledge production. Read More

ANTH 602: The Anthropology of Popular Culture

Spring 2024 This course will explore in detail the advanced theoretical study of popular culture and its role in human society. The course will explore the concept in premodern, modern, and postmodern forms, and will focus on theories which help illuminate the current and future role of popular culture in the digital age. Read More

ANTH 499 Future of Facts in Latin America*

Spring 2024 This class takes an expansive approach and examines the making, use, and erasure of facts in Latin America. It will ask: Who produces a fact? Where is it produced? How is it circulated? And, how is it discredited? Students will learn social science and humanities tools to expand the analysis of facts and better understand what is often referred to as the post-truth era. Read More