10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)
On campus: E51-095
Dissertation Committee Graham Jones
Professor of Anthropology
Committee Chair
William Deringer
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Stefan Helmreich
Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology
Heather Paxson
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology
Robert Weller
Professor of Anthropology
Boston University
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Tim Loh, a 5th year student, interviewed Michele Friedner, professor and medical anthropologist, on her book, Sensory Futures .
Cross-STS is a workshop and seminar series hosted by PhD students in HASTS.
“Colonial Rodent Control in Tanganyika and the Application of Ecological Frameworks”, written by Jia Hui Lee [link to alumni directory page] ‘21, has been published in the Annals of Science. It was also the winner of the Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize 2022.
Caroline White-Nockleby, a 4th year student, was interviewed by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS) as part of the Solving Climate | Humanistic Perspectives from MIT series.
Nadia Christidi [link to student bio page], a 7th year student, was interviewed by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS) as part of the Solving Climate | Humanistic Perspectives from MIT series.
Caterina Scaramelli ‘16 is a research assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Scaramelli’s class, Culture & Environment, implemented a hybrid approach to teaching during the pandemic.
This has been a banner year for Teasel Muir-Harmony PhD ’14, curator of the Apollo spacecraft collection at the National Air and Space Museum.