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The Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, a leader in the field of Medical Anthropology, announces an exciting new programmatic emphasis in Medical Anthropology and Global Health that aims to train a new generation of scholars to meet the challenges of our increasingly globalized world. Since the inception of medical anthropology, the world and anthropology have changed. Increasingly, the local is interconnected with the global through the movement and exchange of peoples, cultures, popular ideas and practices, goods and capital, science, technology and ethics.
The department is very excited and pleased that, for the first time, over 100 students are currently majoring in Anthropology!
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| Department Highlights... |
| •Certificate in Anthropology and Global Health |
| •Learn about the extraordinary success of Anthropology graduate students in obtaining national funding for their doctoral dissertation research. |
| •Interactive Map of Anthropology Research Conducted by Faculty and PhD Candidates at Case Western Reserve University |
| •The Anthropologist (Newsletter of the Department of Anthropology) |
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| In the news.... |
Congratulations Professor Eileen Anderson-Fye |
Eileen Anderson-Fye was awarded the 2012 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring. This is awarded annually to faculty members that have made exemplary contributions to graduate students through advising and mentoring. |
Congratulations Professor Melvyn Goldstein |
Melvyn Goldstein will receive the 2012 Frank and Dorothy Hovorka Prize at the upcoming commencement. This prize is awarded annually to recognize exceptional achievement by an active member of the faculty whose accomplishments in teaching, research and scholarly service have benefited the community, the nation and the wolrd.
On March 16, 2012 Professor Melvyn C. Goldstein, the J.R. Harkness Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Tibet, participated in a Roundtable panel titled "A Quarter Century of Fieldwork in Tibet: A Panel in Honor of Melvyn Goldstein" at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Toronto. |
Congratulations Professor Atwood Gaines |
Atwood Gaines, professor of anthropology, bioethics, nursing and psychiatry, has been signed for another four-year term as editor-in-chief of the journal Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. In his first four years, the journal has seen its rank among health-related anthropology journals rise to No.1. Rankings are based on the citation index and Internet downloads; the latter have increased some 300 percent under his tenure. Gaines has also been tapped to edit a new book series for Springer Publishing Inc., tentatively titled Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine, which focuses on the humanities and social studies of medicine and science. |
Special issue of Ethos, the journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology |
Eileen Anderson-Fye, assistant professor of anthropology, and Jill Korbin, associate dean and director of the Schubert Center, served as editors of the December edition of Ethos. The edited publication covers bridging research, practice and policy with regard to adolescent well-being. |