Departmental speaker Series
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is very pleased to support a ongoing conversation among faculty, students, and community members through engagement with a variety of issues related to the core concerns of the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. The occasional speaker series will feature scholars renowned in their fields. Please join us!
Spring 2011
Jack Levin, PhD. - Northeastern University, Hate and Violence – American Style - 14 March 2011
See a Parthenon article describing the event.
Tracie McKinney, PhD. - Marshall University, Monkeys in Our Midst: The Impact of Human Disturbance on the White-faced Capuchin Behavior and Ecology - 02 March 2011
Fall 2010
Mats Grieff, Ph.D. - Malmö University
, From Women's Experiences to the Cowboy Myth: Associations Between Societal Changes and Transformations in Song Lyrics When Folk Music Became a Commercialized Country Music - 01 December 2010Brian Roberts, PhD - University of Central Lancashire, A (Former) Mining Valley in Wales: A Research Story - 20 October 2010
Spring 2010
Elizabeth Faier, PhD, Ladies and Laborers: Regulating Bodies and Spaces in Urban Development - 31 March 2010
John Walden, MD, Marshall University - 40 Years of Living, Working, and Trekking with the Amazonian Indians - 25 February 2010
Dan Evans, PhD, Marshall University - Ethnobotany of Indigenous People in the Upper Amazon Basin and High Andes of Ecuador- 27 January 2010
Fall 2009
Tim Boekhout van Solinge, PhD, University of Amsterdam - Tropical Deforestation as a Harmful and Criminologist Issue - 05 November 2009