Tag: Department of Anthropology
Crisis at the border? Anthropologist looks at Central American migration
Professor and author Daniel Reichman gives an overview of the last 40 years of Central American migration to the United States, and describes a system that is far more complicated than what’s often presented in the news.
‘Lewis Henry Morgan at 200’ reintroduces a landmark scholar
A new digital project and exhibitions on and off campus mark the bicentennial year of one of the founders of social and cultural anthropology.
In remote regions of the South Pacific, cell phones have transformed daily life
In a new book, The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones, Rochester anthropologist Robert Foster describes the sometimes surprising developments when governments open up the telecommunications sector to competition.
‘High-risk’ research receives University seed funding
University Research Awards for 2018-19 have been awarded to 15 projects ranging from an analysis of the roles of prisons in the Rochester region, to a new approach to genome editing, to new initiatives for advanced materials for powerful lasers.
Three faculty members named 2018–19 Fulbright Scholars
Two University of Rochester faculty members will be in India next fall, and a third will be in London after receiving Fulbright Scholar awards.
John Osburg to receive a Carnegie Fellowship
The associate professor of anthropology is one of 31 scholars in the humanities or social sciences to be awarded the prestigious honor, which will support his research exploring the revival of religion in China.
Scholars call for more research into gun violence
More than a dozen researchers—from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other major institutions around the country—presented at the two-day symposium, aimed at addressing dearth of research data on gun violence.
Symposium on gun violence research attracts leading scholars
“The Social Life of Guns” symposium brings researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and other universities and institutions to the University of Rochester for two days to spur more research on guns and gun violence.
Looking at urban history as a fight for space, power
Chicago and Delhi. Rome and Rochester. The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” take a virtual tour of them all, while pondering an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?
One question sparks student’s research around race in America
Why does racism play a part in motivating some students to go on to college, while it seems to deter others? Winston Scott ’19 is spending his summer preparing a study into how children react when they begin to perceive racism.