Month: January 2025

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Save the Date (March 7): 2025 Foster Lecture

Jan. 29, 2025 — The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to share that this year’s George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology will be given by Bill Maurer. Dr. Maurer is Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology and Law, and Director of the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. His lecture, “Three Models for How Americans Money,” will be held at 5:30pm on Friday, March 7, 2025, at Moody Hall Auditorium.

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Save the Date (Feb 5): Culture, Mind, and Brain Seminar with Elizabeth Fein

Jan 29, 2024 – Next week, the Culture, Mind, and Brain Seminar Series, a collaboration between SMU’s Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and the UT Southwestern Medical Center, will feature Elizabeth Fein, Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology at Duquesne University. Her talk is entitled “Autism as a Mode of Engagement: Neurodevelopmental Difference and the Spark of Social Innovation in Creative Communities.” Further details are available on the poster above.

The Culture, Mind, and Brain Research Cluster is convened by Neely Myers (SMU Anthropology), Anthony Petrosino (SMU Teaching & Learning), Edward Glasscock (SMU Biological Sciences), and Adam Brenner (UT Southwestern Psychiatry).

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Four Anthropology Undergraduates to the 2025 NCUR

Jan. 28, 2025 — The Department of Anthropology will make an impressive showing at the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Pittsburgh: of the twelve SMU students invited to participate, four are Anthropology majors. We congratulate our presenters:

Feaven Fasil – “Addressing Mental Health Barriers among Ethiopian-American Youth in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”

Alexis Schroeder – “Intersectional Crip: How Identity and Disability Impact Medical Discrimination”

Shriya Siddhartha – “An Ethnographic Examination of Factors Affecting Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment Access and Adherence in South India”

Vivian Thai – ““Paths to Parenthood: IVF Narratives from Quy Nhon, Vietnam”