Prof. Runnels publishes blog post about “How Modern Greek Came to America”
Prof. Runnels, an expert in Palaeolithic archaeology in Greece, contributes to From the Archivist’s Notebook a story about how Americans first heard Modern Greek being spoken in the early 19th century. An aficionado of antiquarian shops, Prof. Runnels has frequently discovered unique documents of great historical and informational value, such as the four documents presented in this […]
BU Anthropology at #AAPA2019
The Department of Anthropology will be well-represented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Cleveland, OH March 27-30. If you’ll be at the AAPA, make sure to stop by a presentation or two (or all 18)! Presentations by current BU Biological Anthropologists (and recent Ph.D. alumni) will include (* […]
Postdoc Dr. Stephanie Poindexter on Primate Venom and Movement Ecology
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Stephanie Poindexter, of the Department of Anthropology’s Sensory Morphology and Genomic Anthropology Lab, recently published a paper establishing the facial markings of her study species, the Javan slow loris, as an aposematic signal advertising their toxicity (lorises are among the only known venomous mammals) in the journal Toxins (Nekaris et al., 2019), […]
Prof. Eva Garrett on Attraction in BU Today
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Prof. Eva Garrett of the Department of Anthropology’s Sensory Morphology and Genomic Anthropology Lab (SMGAL) is featured in a video on BU Today among other faculty seeking to explain human attraction. So watch out for pheromones this coming week… or, as Prof. Garrett explains… don’t.
Congratulations to Dr. Cartmill!
The Darwin Award for 2019 has been conferred upon Matt Cartmill, Professor and former Chair of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at BU! The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor given by the leading international professional society for biological anthropology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. The award […]
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BU profs seek to unlock mysteries of the human foot By Amy Sutherland Last winter Jeremy DeSilva and Simone Gill met over coffee to talk shop about how the human foot works. DeSilva is interested in prehistoric feet, how their anatomy changed when our ancestors gave up tree climbing for walking upright. Gill studies modern […]
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
Thomas Barfield introduced the audience to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He showed how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order […]
10 Years Later: Islam in the U.S.
Robert Hefner, professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, discusses the state of Islam and Muslim society in the U.S. since the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The World, Post 9/11
BU faculty and staff on what’s changed in decade since Edited by John O’Rourke By sheer coincidence I was teaching Sophocles’ Antigone in my course on conflict resolution on that fateful September day that changed the world—alas not for the better, at least not so far in America.
One Class, One Day: Studying What You Eat
CAS course examines how food defines culture By Amy Laskowski Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU.