Haverford College Anthropology Department

03/18/2024

It's that beautiful time of year at Haverford College! Register for a campus tour https://www.haverford.edu/admission/visiting and while you are here, sit in on an Anthropology class or make plans to chat with a member of the faculty!

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02/21/2024

Friday, March 1, at 4:15 in Lutnick 200 at Haverford College

NAVIGATING MEDIA AT TIMES OF CONFLICT AND CRISIS.
From newspapers to smartphones, social media to daily emails, advertisements to campus posters, we live in a world oversaturated with media. How does the ubiquity of media in our daily lives relate to our experience of the conflicts and crises around us? During this event, a panel of anthropologists will share insights about the complexity of media production and consumption. By examining media producers and consumers as agents grounded in specific socio-cultural, historical, and interpretive locations, they will discuss the underlying biases, values, and perspectives that influence the creation and reception of media messages. At a time of rising tensions over truth claims in media and beyond, this event aims to foster a more critical, informed, and nuanced understanding of the information we consume in times of conflict and crisis. Panelists include:
• Narges Bajoghli, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
• Wazhmah Osman, Associate Professor, Temple University, Klein College of Media and Communication
• Introduced and facilitated by Zeynep Sertbulut, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College

This program is supported by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship in collaboration with the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program and the Political Science department.

02/07/2024

What does it mean to attempt a critical anthropology of the body, illness experience, disease etiology, healing practices, and the epistemology of contemporary biomedicine across a diverse group of cultures and traditions? How do we grapple with the entanglements between ethnographic film/documentary and colonial structures of power? What can we learn about the Middle East by examining media?

These are just a few of the questions asked in our Spring 2024 anthropology curriculum. See for yourself at: https://www.haverford.edu/anthropology/courses

01/24/2024

Welcome back to all our students and faculty for the Spring 2024 semester!
For more information on our program, please visit us at https://www.haverford.edu/anthropology

12/15/2023

Congratulations to Professor Hong and her film "Above and Below the Ground"

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies Emily Hong’s Above and Below the Ground made its debut at the BlackStar Film Festival in August and is now on a global tour. Six Bi-Co community members supported its creation.

09/06/2023

Welcome back! We are excited to start our Fall 2023 semester!

07/19/2023

Congratulations to Cathy Zhu '23! The anthropology and psychology double major, and Asian American studies minor, will spend nine months in St. Louis with the program, which is aimed at developing emerging leaders to work and lead across different sectors.

The anthropology and psychology double major, and Asian American studies minor, will spend nine months in St. Louis with the program, which is aimed at developing emerging leaders to work and lead across different sectors.

07/05/2023

On May 3rd our anthropology seniors presented their thesis to faculty friends and family! It was a full house!

The anthropology thesis is a year-long, two-credit independent research project designed and implemented by each senior anthropology major. Each student selects a research topic, defines a specific research question, describes how that question relates to a broader field of ethnographic and anthropological writing on the topic, conducts independent, original research with primary source materials that can be ethnographic, archival, and/or material, and develops and writes up an original argument, supported by evidence, about the primary source materials. This argument is informed by the relevant theory and by ethnographic and anthropological scholarship. Thus, a successful anthropology thesis will provide substantial evidence that students are able to conduct independent research and synthesize theoretical arguments with ethnographic materials, as well as displaying strong skills in presenting their research, and entering into intellectual dialogue with peers and faculty.

We are so proud of our seniors!

06/21/2023

Spotlight on Anthropology
What's new this Fall in Anthropology?

Professor Michael D'Arcy's class ... ANTH H336 Science, Technology, Medicine, Power: (De)colonial knowledge production & epistemological community

This course traces the relationship between scientific knowledge production, notions of technological "progress," and political, economic, and institutional power through the disciplinary histories of anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. Texts will include STS classics that frame contemporary science and medicine as the products of political and economic history, as well as work in anthropology and STS that center non-western and indigenous traditions of knowledge and the voices of BIPOC and feminist scholars.

06/14/2023

Live the HaverLife .... learn more about our beautiful campus and culture! https://www.haverford.edu/about

06/09/2023

Nearly 700 alumni came home to Haverford for dinners, panel discussions, readings, parties, and reunions with old friends.https://haver.blog/2023/06/05/alumni-weekend-2023/

05/17/2023

Did you know Haverford College is a 216 acre arboretum? Check out our beautiful campus! https://www.haverford.edu/arboretum/arboretum-highlights