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CANCELED: Culture, Mind, and Brain Seminar with Adrienne Strong

Oct. 2, 2024 — Note: due to unforeseen circumstances, the event with Dr. Strong (announced below) has been canceled.

We are pleased to announce the return of the Culture, Mind, and Brain Seminar Series, a collaboration between SMU’s Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and the UT Southwestern Medical Center. The first event of the 2024 series, “The Most Difficult Pain: Psychological Pain in Tanzanian Healthcare Settings,” will be held on Zoom at 5:30pm CST on October 9 with Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. 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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Kelly McKowen featured on Mergers & Acquisitions Podcast

Oct. 1, 2024 — Assistant Professor Kelly McKowen is the guest on the latest episode of Mergers & Acquisitions, the podcast for the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA). He joins Princeton University’s Nikita Taniparti to discuss the welfare system and “unemployment business” in Norway.

Notions of Unemployment and Welfare: A Conversation with Dr. Kelly McKowen

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Save the Date (Oct 31): Abigail Fisher Defense

Oct. 1, 2024 — The department is thrilled to announce that on October 31, 2024, graduate student Abigail Fisher will defend her dissertation, “Dogs as Proxies for Forager-Farmer Interactions along the Missouri River, North and South Dakota.” The event will be held from 11:00am to 1:00pm in the Founder’s Room (Room 407) in Heroy Hall.

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Save the Date (Oct 11): 2024 Wendorf Lecture

Sept. 30, 2024 — Wealth inequality actually has a long history: Tim Kohler will speak about it at SMU’s Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology on Friday, Oct. 11, 5 p.m. at Moody Hall Auditorium.

Kohler is professor emeritus of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology at Washington State University whose work involves quantitative analysis of archaeological data or simulation of aspects of prehistoric behavior.

He is especially interested in cooperative behavior, wealth inequalities and their consequences, reciprocity, and other processes with evolutionary implications in Neolithic societies, and large-scale patterning in prehistoric societies.

The Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology is named after Fred Wendorf, who founded the Anthropology Department at SMU in 1964.

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Erik Schlicht Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Erik Schlicht

Sept. 18, 2024 — Anthropology graduate student Erik Schlicht has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides three years of funding for his coursework and dissertation on Indigenous uses of fire in managing the landscape of the Sierra Nevada.