Augustana College Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Welfare

03/28/2017

The University of Iowa College of Public Health is pleased to host a lecture by Matthew Desmond, Harvard sociologist and author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City."

03/28/2017

Crash Course is a great series of educational videos by Hank and John Green. They are tackling sociology this year. Check it out!

Beginning Mondays in March, we are bringing you Crash Course Sociology. Host Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both s...

03/22/2017

Nice slide show of current population demographics! Enjoy!

03/09/2017

Interesting article -- thanks Alicia for sharing it!

Archaeologists have a mystery on their hands, and it’s not something they dug out of the dirt. It’s this: Where are the women in academia? Women earn more than 60 percent of archaeology Ph.D.s, and yet they represent fewer than 30 percent of archaeologists in American universities. Why is that? Do i...

01/19/2017

Wonderful work that Angie is doing!

Women Landowner Photovoice Exhibit at Reiman Gardens“River Stories” participants L to R: Betty Wells, Courtney Turnis, Danielle Wirth, Angie Carter, Patti Edwardson, Colleen Radebaugh, Jan Kaiser, and Chris Henning.“River Stories: Views from an Iowa Watershed,” a Photovoice exhibit co-sponsored by t...

12/08/2016

Anthropology club is having a movie night tonight (12/8) in Olin 305 at 8pm!

We'll be watching Christmas episodes of Bones and then discussing forensic anthropology and the CSI effect. Should be super interesting and fun so you should all come!!! See you there!!!

08/16/2016

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hormel-spam/?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business

How the 125-year-old company known for its iconic canned meat became one of the hottest food companies in America.

07/08/2016

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/07/world/americas/bolivia-climate-change-lake-poopo.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

An indigenous group that survived Spanish and Inca conquest cannot handle the abrupt upheaval of global warming. Lake Poopó was more than their livelihood: It was their identity.

06/29/2016

False correlations, Brexit edition: aligning the "leave the EU" voters with the spread of mad cow disease.

05/27/2016

A little anthropological satire to start your summer off right.

IQUITOS, PERU—Saying he was trying not to think about how awful the next few days would be, master ayahuasca shaman Piero Salazar expressed his sense of dread Tuesday as he confirmed his week would once again be spent guiding American tech CEOs to spiritual oneness.

05/12/2016

Thanks, Alicia, for all you have done for our students and our campus community!

05/11/2016

http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publication-pdfs/2000131-Death-Rates-for-US-Women-Ages-15-to-54.pdf