| Medical Anthropology and Global Health |
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The Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, a leader in the field of Medical Anthropology, announces an exciting new programmatic emphasis in Medical Anthropology and Global Health that aims to train a new generation of scholars to meet the challenges of our increasingly globalized world. Since the inception of medical anthropology, the world and anthropology have changed. Increasingly, the local is interconnected with the global through the movement and exchange of peoples, cultures, popular ideas and practices, goods and capital, science, technology and ethics.
| Highlights... |
| •Certificate in Anthropology and Global Health |
| •Learn about the extraordinary success of Anthropology graduate students in obtaining national funding for their doctoral dissertation research. |
| •Interactive Map of Anthropology Research Conducted by Faculty and PhD Candidates at Case Western Reserve University |
| •The Anthropologist (Newsletter of the Department of Anthropology) |
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| •Interested in a career in Anthropology? American Anthropological Association (AAA) website, This Is Anthropology, may have helpful information. |
| In the news.... |
5-16-2013
Dr. Eileen Anderson-Fye's "contagious enthusiasm" in teaching and mentoring spreads across campus
Dr. Anderson-Fye, winner of the 2012 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring and the 2013 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, has been featured across campus media for her "contagious enthusiasm" in teaching and mentoring both graduate and undergraduate students. She was featured in The Daily, digital news source of Case Western Reserve University, in an article titled "Anthropology's Eileen Anderson-Fye wins back-to-back university awards" on May 8, 2013. Dr. Anderson-Fye is also being featured in think, the online news source for Case Western Reserve University. Click here to see the video, titled 'Best in Class' What's it like to learn from our award-winning faculty - in and out of the classroom?
5-15-2013
Graduating senior Arundhati 'Cherry' Bharati featured in think
Graduating senior Cherry Bharati shows how living in a Nepalese monastery changed her world view - and her photography. Click here to see the video in think, the online news source for Case Western Reserve University.
5-8-2013
Congratulations Dr. Eileen Anderson-Fye and Dr. Katia Almeida
Congratulations to Dr. Eileen Anderson-Fye for receiving the 2013 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Dr. Katia Almeida for being nominated for the award. This award is presented annually to two faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching.
4-24-2013
Dr. Cynthia Beall elected Fellow member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In addition to being a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Dr. Beall was elected a Fellow member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chartered in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and others, the “end and design of the institution is...to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Click here to read more in a featured article in The Daily, digital news source of Case Western Reserve University.
Fall/Winter 2012
Dr. Lee Hoffer and his students were featured in art/sci Fall/Winter 2012 Magazine
"Street-Level Anthropology: Lee Hoffer and his students enter the worlds of illegal drug users" by Arthur Evenchik. Click here to read the full story in art/sci Magazine or view as pdf.