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New Year, New Members of the Anthro Department!
Welcome our new student, Sangharsh Telang!

Sangharsh's work examines the interrelationship between highly affluent neighborhoods and the politics of redistribution.

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In this undergrad-only course, Prof. Gershon asks some crucial questions: "Is one culture's bully another culture's great leader? Do some organizations or cultures make bad behavior the road to success?"

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...skills through public-engaged projects to identify problems that are susceptible to social design solutions. Special design foci this year will include: architecture and cities, environments and ecology, objects and technologies, infrastructures and futures."

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Are you ready for the fall semester?! 🍁🍂

Social Design Studio (ANTH 368/568)
Prof. Dominic Boyer
Fridays 2:00-4:30pm
Read more below.

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The course includes an overview of the culture history of indigenous cultures in this study area, with emphasis on topics of social archeology that hold relevance to today's world." #archeology #mesoamerica #riceanthro

Working with and through abstraction asks how we can reconsider the forms of evidence we mobilize, and it inspires experimentation in relation to ways of seeing, listening, and documentation.

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Join us for the Spring Brown Bags! ✒️📝📚
Here is our calendar for the Spring 2025.
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Zoom links will be provided here and on our website before every meeting! Stay tuned.

The fall semester ended but here is a throwback to the end-of-term class of People and Animals in the Past. #RiceAnthro

Students of the class presented their posters and celebrated their last class on December 5th.

Here are some photos! Poster titles below:

Sydney Coldren’s article comprises one chapter of her award-winning honor’s thesis, and examines the historical flows of capital, calories, and care to an Indigenous community in central Bolivia.

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is a stunning and powerful exploration of how the violence of Palestinian genocide travels beyond Gaza and the limits of language, seeping into mundane life."

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and development projects. Thus, this course focuses on legal, ethical, and community mandates for the management of heritage sites, objects, landscapes and intangible heritage.
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Spring class registrations are ON! ✨
Introducing Anthropology Department Spring classes!

ANTH 373/573
Applied Archeology
Wednesdays, 12:00-2:30p.m.
Dr. Molly Morgan
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Over the course of the semester you will be exposed to-and participate in—all aspects of the archaeological process through our own excavations at Varner-Hogg Plantation. #Spring2025 #RiceAnthro

This course denaturalizes the corporation by looking at its historical origin and how cultural contexts shape what corporations have become. #AnthropologyofCapitalism #RiceAnthro

Melanie Ford Lemus is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. Her doctoral research focuses on the shifting political nexus of property, environmental management, and urbanization in postwar Guatemala.

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Introducing "Reconstructing Olduvai: The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site", co-written by our visiting professor Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo. The book provides the necessary information for future generations of archaeologists to peer into the lifestyle of early humans.
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...by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS), a more objective way of identifying to species-level. We also surveyed for more sites around Gogo Falls."

She will continue her research and combine further fieldwork with laboratory work. #RiceAnthro

Dr. Jeffrey Fleisher was rewarded with 'Rice University Faculty Award for Excellence in University Service and Leadership'. Congratulations to our professors for their much-deserved awards and recognition. #RiceAnthro