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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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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Here the evidence from the archives is murky, but it appears that only Egbert’s skull and the teeth of Ksâr ‘Akil 4 were successfully extracted. 998-27-40/14628.1.30 998-27-40/14628.1.27

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Learn more about: Micro-Nations: Constructing Boundaries of Inclusion in Latin America

Political Science Now

All of his research employs a multi-method approach, utilizing experimental and natural experimental data alongside extensive interviewing and archival research.

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Meet DFP Fall Fellow, Josiah Jacobs, Johns Hopkins University

Political Science Now

Currently, he is a second-year Predoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, assisting Dr. Vesla Weaver with archival research on Black police organizations during the Black Power Era and their influence on local politics at the height of their prominence.

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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.

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Underwater Caves Provide New Insights Into Sicily's Earliest Human Inhabitants

Anthropology.net

This initiative has relied heavily on archival research, including the review of local records dating back to the 19th century and collaborations with local archaeologists, divers, and fishermen.

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Learn more about: “Why Autonomy? Extraction, Resistance, and Historical Origins of Indigenous Demands in Latin America”

Political Science Now

All of his work employs a multi-method approach, using experimental and natural experimental data as well as extensive interviewing and archival research. He also has published or has forthcoming work on local governance in Latin America, methods for causal inference, and the regulation of gig economy labor in the United States.