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Tyler Ball (BA Anthropology, 2013 from Marshall U) is completing a Master’s degree in Maritime Studies/Nautical Archaeology at East Carolina University and is now at the end of of 10-week internship with the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).  Ball is proud to have accomplished what he set out to do by completing 9

Benjamin Busch will deliver a multimedia lecture on how our sense of service has changed in the new century. As America transitions from manufacturing to an economy increasingly defined by service and consumption, laborers are struggling to hold their place as contributors to national production. As wealth consolidates in the one percent, few can work

Highlighted course offerings for Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 2018 Dr. Nicholas Freidin (Anthropology) ANT 322 – Archaeology  ANT & CL 326 – Classical Archaeology Dr. Brian A. Hoey (Anthropology) ANT 201 – Cultural Anthropology (MUOnline) ANT & SOC 362 – Health, Culture & Society (MUOnline) ANT 465 & 565 – Disaster, Culture & Health  

The Society in collaboration with the Psychology Department and Women’s Studies will be a screening the Netflix documentary Heroin(e) on Monday, October 2 at 7:00 in the Shawkey Dining Room. The three women featured in the film, Necia Freeman, Patricia Keller, and Jan Radar, will be present to answer questions afterwards. This event is free

This year’s Graduate Humanities Program Major Scholar seminar is with renowned anthropologist, Dr. Susie Crate, and is titled “Storying Climate Change.” Dr. Crate is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. More about her and the documentary that tracks some of her work in Sibera and elsewhere

This will be the final Research Seminar in Health for the 2017-2018 academic year.  The ongoing seminar has been an opportunity for students, faculty, and community members to come together to learn and share ideas around current research into human health and disease from a variety of different disciplines. This seminar will feature Dr. Robin

Dr. Brian A. Hoey (Sociology & Anthropology) together with students in his course “Culture and Environment” (ANT & SOC 466 and 566) are having a community event to demonstrate how cultural ecology provides us with a holistic vision of varied relationships over time and space that human populations have had with their environments.  The course

Explore the new, interdisciplinary Addiction Studies minor (that includes contributions from our department) with a lecture series on Substance Misuse, the War on Drugs, and Recovery.

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