Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cara Ocobock’s gift to her niece — a curated lab manual — inspired graduate students and others in the Notre Dame community to raise funds and gift all the materials for the lab manual experiments to kids at a local school.
News article by Anthropology and Peace Studies graduate Kristina Hook and PhD student Richard Marcantonio in Small Wars Journal: https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/environment-warfare-related-policy-making-case-ukraine…
Lee Gettler, associate professor of anthropology at Notre Dame, led a team that worked with the BaYaka and Bondongo societies in the Republic of the Congo.
The students, faculty, and staff of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame stand in solidarity with the local, national, and global movements against systemic racism and state and police violence against Black communities in the United States. As anthropologists, it is our responsibility to actively dismantle false ideas about race within and outside of academia, and to remove systemic barriers that exclude Black people in our field and dehumanize them in our work.…
In a world with over 70 million displaced persons, the average refugee will spend over 17 years displaced, with many settling long-term in refugee camps dependent on humanitarian aid. The continued prevalence and growth of protracted refugee camps has become unsustainable for host states and insufficient for refugees, who have the right to dignified and productive lives.…
With a Side of Knowledge is a podcast produced by the Office of the Provost at the University of Notre Dame. It brings listeners informal interviews with fascinating scholars and professionals from both Notre Dame and elsewhere that take place over brunch.
The 17th episode of the show’s third season, “On Reindeer Herders and Powerlifting,”…
Notre Dame anthropologist Alex Chávez has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities long-term residential fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago. During the nine-month fellowship, Chávez will work on a second book project, tentatively titled Audible City: Urban Cultural History, Latinx Chicago, and the Sonic Commons, which explores the relationship between sound and the city of Chicago.
The Department of Anthropology is offering new courses for Fall 2020!
