Category: Publications

Associate Professor Megan Moodie is a co-Principal Investigator on an almost $95,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to hold a cross-subfield anthropology conference. This conference is planned for March 2025 and is titled “Approaches to disability in anthropology: Creating space for convergence and innovation.”  She also recently co-authored the paper “Patients as knowledge partners in the…

Assistant Professor Askwak Hauter published ​​”The Reparative Work of the Imagination” in the American Journal of Islam and Society. The essay and community-based project traces the works of Yemeni artists that meditate on the conditions of the image of the Yemeni as lacking migrants and how it weighs heavily on community, trust, and individual and communal well-being.…

Associate Professor Jon Daehnke co-edited and contributed to this book, published by the University Press of Florida, which examines the interplay of heritage and democracy in practices and institutions across scales of governance.  This volume explores cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and…

Assistant Professor Carla Hernández Garavito published this article in Ethnohistory, where she explores her findings of using spatial modeling to investigate a map from the 16th-century Peruvian Ande. This may allow researchers to explore the way in which Indigenous representations and understandings of the landscape influenced the portrayal of what would otherwise be considered a…

Professor Nancy Chen published this article in Nutrients analyzing nutrition education in U.S. and French medical schools based on interdisciplinary collaboration with a medical sociologist, a medical anthropologist, and a medical doctor.  Through ethnographic research, they compare historical contexts of systemic nutrition knowledge and the growing role of culinary medicine, teaching kitchens, and social justice…