Last night we held the annual town hall meeting and it was an absolute success. We discussed future changes in the department, student research and much more. Thank you to all those who attended!
Town hall meeting
It’s that time of year again! Ready for the annual Anthropology Town Hall Meeting? All students, whether you’re an anthropology major or minor, are welcome to attend and share their ideas and opinions on how the anthropology department can improve. The faculty will also share their new programs and initiatives and allow students to become […]
Anthropology Club Goes to Washington, D.C. for AAA Conference
Recently, eleven students from the Anthropology Club had the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. to attend the 2017 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. They met Professor Luis Vivanco for coffee and discussion, also met with Professor Jeanne Shea, and were graciously given a tour of the city by UVM Anthro alumna Cara […]
UVM Anthropology Faculty and Students featured in local exhibit
Feel like a really quick local field trip? A brief study break during finals period? The UVM Dana Medical Library lobby is hosting an exhibit “Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health” with a slide show on global health activities at UVM. It is up from this week until mid December and includes […]
Fall 2015 Departmental Newsletter Now Online!
Our Fall 2015 Newsletter is now online! To see what our students and faculty have been up to over the last year, please take a look! AnthropologyFall2015Newsletter
Distinguished Alumni Lecture a Success!
In the first lecture in our Distinguished Alumni series, Lauren-Glenn Davitian (’82), founder of CCTV’s Center for Media and Democracy, shared an interactive presentation about her work, responsible citizenship, and the ways in which she sees Anthropology as an important way of approaching the human experience. You can see the audio-visual materials from her talk […]
UVM Anthropology at 2015 NEAA Annual Meeting
UVM Anthropology was well-represented at the 2015 Northeastern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Eleven students and one faculty member made the trek down to Franklin Pierce University for the two-day conference, March 27-28. During the conference, three students delivered papers and one student presented a poster, including: Riker Pasterkiewicz: 100 Years of Socioeconomic Separation: The Subte […]
Professors VanValkenburgh and Eastman Awarded Humanities Center Multidisciplinary Collegial Network Grant
Anthropology faculty Parker VanValkenburgh and Benjamin Eastman received one of the first three grants from UVM’s Multidisciplinary Collegial Network program, to support a series of critical discussions and presentations on the “ontological turn” in the humanities and interpretive social sciences — a wave of new research examining how categories of being are constructed, as well […]
Read our Fall 2014 Newsletter!
It’s been a busy year for the UVM Anthropology Department! To read through our Fall 2014 Newsletter, please click here (and follow the hyperlinks within for even more great news!): UVMAnthroFall2014Newsletter
A Thousand Ghost Maps Event Featured on Vermont Public Radio
Professor Jonah Steinberg was recently interviewed on Vermont Public Radio about “A Thousand Ghost Maps,” a public symposium he has organized in conjunction with the visit of Burack lecturer J.R. McNeill, University Professor at Georgetown University. Click here for more information on the public symposium scheduled for April 28th and for information on the Burack lecture scheduled […]
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