ANTHROPOLOGY

Pomona College

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Note: News items are listed, roughly from more recent down to less recent.



  • NANETTE BARKEY is the recipient of a 2007-2008 Collegiate Teaching Awards, given by the College of Liberals & Sciences of The University of Iowa


    • Nanette Barkey is assistant professor of Anthropology; she holds a joint appointment in the the University of Iowa's College of Public Health. She teaches courses in medical anthropology, international health, and the anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa. Students praise her dynamic presence in the classroom, her engaging presentations, and the productive discussions she leads. She has also been a generous mentor to students wishing to pursue professional interests in anthropology. Her co-authored book, The Medicalization of Social, Economic, and Political Distress, will be published this year. Her current research focuses on the long-term health effects of war trauma in Angola and community-level efforts to heal Angola after the war.


    This information was gotten (14 February 2008) from The University of Iowa web page.

    Professor Barkey taught at Pomona College under a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2004-2005.





  • At the November 2006 meetings of the American Anthropological Association, RALPH BOLTON was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the AIDS & Anthropology Research Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology. The award reads:


    • In recognition of his outstanding scholarly and personal response to the AIDS crisis from its very beginning and his meritorious contributions in educating colleagues and communities on HIV/AIDS issues.





  • CLAUDIA GARCÍA-DES LAURIERS joined us for the 2006-2007 year to replace Jennifer Perry while she was on her Steele Leave. Professor García-Des Lauriersis a Ph.D. Candidate in Mesoamerican art and archaeology at UC Riverside.





  • DRU GLADNEY is heading up the College's Pacific Basin Institute; he joined the Anthropology Department as well, beginning in 2006-2007.





  • Medical Anthropologist PARDIS MAHDAVI joined the department in 2006-2007.





  • ROBERT FLETCHER taught in the department in the 2005-2006 year. He now teaches at Feather River Community College, in the central California Sierras.





  • For information about the Spring 2007 Distinguished lecture series, BEYOND MACHU PICCU: LIFE IN ANDEAN COMMUNITIES, click here.






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