Professor Bolten among top LEAD Women at Notre Dame!
Professor Catherine Bolten is listed among seven outstanding women faculty members at Notre Dame whose work is contributing to better understanding and quality of life in our world.…
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Dr. Rebecca Gibson Featured in Martian Opportunity Rover News
Prof. Rebecca Gibson, a Visiting Professor at the ND Department of Anthropology, was recently featured in a news article on the Mars Opportunity Rover:
Anthropologist’s exploration of migration, music, and poetics wins trio of book awards
Notre Dame anthropologist Alex Chávez’s first book, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño, has certainly caught the eye of his peers. The in-depth look at Mexican migrants’ cultural expression through music has earned three prestigious awards in the fields of anthropology and ethnomusicology.Chávez’s work has earned the 2018 Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize and 2018 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, and now the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Anthropologist's study shows fathers’ postnatal hormone levels predict later caregiving
In a first-of-its-kind study, Notre Dame anthropologist Lee Gettler and psychologist Patty Kuo focused on how dads’ biology around the birth of their children relates to their parenting down the road. Dads whose cortisol levels were elevated while they held their newborns on the day of their birth – either skin to skin or clothed – were more likely to be involved with indirect care and play with their infants in the first months of their lives.
Notre Dame study shows fathers’ postnatal hormone levels predict later caregiving
Dads whose cortisol levels were elevated while they held their newborns on the day of their birth – either skin to skin or clothed – were more likely to be involved with indirect care and play with their infants in the first months of their lives.
New Article on Prof. Glowacki, "Reading the Remains"
Kellogg International Scholar Pursues Career in Public Health
The summer after her sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame, Lauren O’Connell ’18 found herself working in a hamlet in the Peruvian Amazon so small it couldn’t even be found on a map.
With no cars and just a few dozen families, it was a far cry from the large Atlanta suburb where she grew up. But her study of the region’s medicinal plants – through an Experiencing the World (ETW)
…ND Professors Agustín Fuentes and Celia Deane-Drummond featured in ORBITER Magazine on "The Wisdom of Collaboration
News Article in Chicago Tribune features Prof. Mark Schurr on expedition at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
Prof. Alex Chávez Receives Collaborative Research Grant for Humanities Without Walls Consortium
Anthropology Professor Alex E. Chávez was a recipient of a collaborative research grant from the Humanities Without Walls consortium on the theme of “The Global Midwest” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As co-principal investigator of the team, the main focus of their work was to examine how Latina/o visual and performing arts advance collective social expression of globalization in the Midwestern United States. The edited volume titled Latina/o Aesthetics in the Global Midwest…