Dec. 2, 2024 — The department is thrilled to announce that on December 5, 2024, graduate student Anne Parfitt will defend her dissertation, “Variability in Northeastern Early Paleoindian-Period Basecamps: Implications for the Peopling of New Landscapes.” The event will be held at 1:00pm in Annette Caldwell Simmons Room 213. You can join on Zoom with Meeting ID 993 7851 8802 – Passcode 270407.
Oct. 29, 2024 – 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, “Coping with Aging and Adversity in the Pandemic’s Aftermath: Perspectives from Latinx Immigrant Women in NYC,” will be held on Zoom at 5:30pm CST on November 13 with Heather Wurtz, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. 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).
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).
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.
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.