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The Virtual Mystery Webtool: Open access online Hybridized Problem-based Learning

Teaching Anthropology

The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology. In the introductory course in biological anthropology and archaeology, “92% of students agreed that the Virtual Mystery web-tool helped them understand what a professional anthropologist does; 88.3% Smithsonian Institute).

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

I call this a “confession” because “ (bio)archaeologists ” like me—scholars who identify with archaeology, biological anthropology, or both—are not necessarily known for centering social theories like Intersectionality in our subdisciplines. Bio)archaeology is no stranger to its colonial baggage. Intersectional Anthropology.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence).

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CFP: 2025 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States

Society for Classical Studies

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and workshops/roundtables on any aspect of the Greco-Roman world, including but not limited to poetry (from epic, lyric, and pastoral to elegy, satire, and the epigram), drama, history, philosophy, archaeology, religion, and social life (from family and gender roles to slavery and prostitution).

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Exploring Iowa Archaeology ). What does best practice for integrative STEM pedagogy look like? Is ‘STEM pedagogy’ just layering applied PBL and inquiry lenses onto STEM subject areas? Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.