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The World, Post 9/11
BU faculty and staff on what’s changed in decade since Edited by John O’Rourke By sheer coincidence I was teaching Sophocles’ Antigone in my course on conflict resolution on that fateful September day...
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10 Years Later: Islam in the U.S.
Robert Hefner, professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, discusses the state of Islam and Muslim society in the U.S....
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
Thomas Barfield introduced the audience to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political...
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BU profs seek to unlock mysteries of the human foot By Amy Sutherland Last winter Jeremy DeSilva and Simone Gill met over coffee to talk shop about how the human foot works. DeSilva is interested in...
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Congratulations to Dr. Cartmill!
The Darwin Award for 2019 has been conferred upon Matt Cartmill, Professor and former Chair of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at BU! The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award...
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Talk on Climate Change and Animal Behavior 2/9/19
Please join Department of Anthropology Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Stephanie Poindexter at her discussion of the effects of climate change on animal behavior with Dr. Richard Primack (Biology) at...
View ArticleProf. Eva Garrett on Attraction in BU Today
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Prof. Eva Garrett of the Department of Anthropology’s Sensory Morphology and Genomic Anthropology Lab (SMGAL) is featured in a video on BU Today among other faculty...
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Postdoc Dr. Stephanie Poindexter on Primate Venom and Movement Ecology
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Stephanie Poindexter, of the Department of Anthropology’s Sensory Morphology and Genomic Anthropology Lab, recently published a paper establishing the facial...
View ArticleBU Anthropology at #AAPA2019
The Department of Anthropology will be well-represented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Cleveland, OH March 27-30. If you’ll be at the AAPA, make...
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One Class, One Day: Studying What You Eat
CAS course examines how food defines culture By Amy Laskowski Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one...
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