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  • Alice Selipanov '21

    Alice Selipanov ’21: Visual Approach to Anthropology

    For her senior project, she built a sculptural house to demonstrate her ideas.
  • Professor Shaka McGlotten

    Professor Shaka McGlotten Named to HFPA Advisory Board

    Professor of Media Studies has been selected to join the advisory board for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization behind the Golden Globe Awards.
  • Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies Jason Pine (Photo: Annette Hornischer)

    The Alchemy of Meth by Professor Jason Pine Earns Honorable Mentions

    Acknowledged by The Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.
  • David Graeber, 2016

    Renowned Anthropologist David Graeber ’84 Has Died

    He was considered by many in the field of anthropology to be one of the most brilliant minds of his generation.
  • Janette Yarwood '96

    Janette Yarwood ’96 Honored

    For contributions to US national security and foreign policy.
  • Jorge Acuña (Biology, '20) presents research at ABRCMS 2018.

    Students Attend National STEM Conference

    Eleven students explore opportunities in STEM research.
  • Karen Beltran '02

    Karen Beltran ’02

    Attorney in family court and coordinator of summer internship program for high school students.
  • Abandoned vehicles and refuse fill a lot near a meth lab in Missouri.

    Meth and Modernity

    Anthropologist Jason Pine’s research into homemade meth production in rural Missouri shows that a backwater drug epidemic is in fact the spectre of an advanced mode of capitalism.
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Anthropology

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