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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

These include everything from interviewing and archival research to textual interpretation, discourse analysis and ethnographic inquiry. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example. They are therefore invaluable within a host of interesting and impactful professions.