UCSC Department of Anthropology

This fall, we asked UCSC Anthro Profs to talk about music. In UCSC Anthro Profs Playlist Volume 1, we asked each professor to name a song that connects them to their research. You can find the Playlist on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ciNCXlkGD29ELHop2Pdjj?si=BxaIJb3-TxWKu2dyjkVQdQ

Explanation via QR code in the comments!

UCSC Anthro Profs Playlist Playlist · Megan Moodie-Brasoveanu · 21 items

Join us on Friday, March 4, at noon, for a Roundtable on the War in Ukraine. The roundtable will feature a number of campus experts, including our very own Rikki Brown, April Reber, and Lissa Caldwell.

You can find details about the roundtable and registration here:

War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty, PhD students, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine, tension w...

Attention all AnthroSlugs! The Writing Assistant Center is open for business on Zoom this quarter! Need someone to bounce ideas around with while brainstorming a paper? Want to shore up your citation skills? Could you use some feedback on how you're structuring an argument?

All writers need support at every stage of the process -- whether you consider yourself a strong writer or someone who could use a bit of support.

Book an appointment now via Slug Success. Find details (including WA profiles) here:

Writing Assistant Program One of the most important skills students take with them is the ability to write well, providing accurate and polished documentation, wherever their careers lead.  The Writing Assistant Program, the only departmental writing support program of its kind at UCSC, was created to train strong writers t...

Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. S. Chava Contreras, who has filed his dissertation "Toxic Landscapes in Sacred Wixaritari Territory: Chemicals and Food as Environmental Epigenetic Triggers in a Metabolic Epidemic in Mexico."

Dr. Contreras is now off to be a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley!

Congratulations to Professor Nancy Chen, who received the 2020 MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology! We all know what an amazing mentor Professor Chen is -- and it's nice to see the rest of the world recognize it, too.

Undergrads and grads should check out this announcement from the department!

Direct questions to Professor Lissa Caldwell ([email protected]) or Professor Megan Moodie ([email protected]).

Hot off the presses -- this article by Professor Tsim Schneider in American Anthropologist!

“Dancing on the Brink of the World”: Seeing Indigenous Dance and Resilience in the Archaeology of Colonial California In California, Indigenous hinterlands served as places of opportunity and safe harbor for Native people responding to colonization during the Mission Period (1769–1830s) and afterward. Even as Native...

On December 10, join the AAA event "Collaborative Scripts: Disability & Chronic Illness Through Ethnographic Theatre & Film" as Professor Megan Moodie presents her screenplay-in-progress.

AAA Webinars - Attend Events The American Anthropological Association provides educational and professional development webinars for the anthropological community.

In an era when people feel disconnected from reality and Zoom-fatigued, Professor Moodie's senior seminar "Radical Craft" is doing something radical: lovingly working with the course syllabus to create a work of art by hand. In this way, students engage with and think about the document and the material it contains a bit differently, just like many of the extraordinary "craftivists" -- from Cecilia Vicuna to The Aids Memorial Quilt -- they are learning about this quarter.

Stay tuned for updates about student projects throughout the quarter!

Where in the world is UCSC Anthropology?

The department may be dark and quiet, but that doesn't mean that exciting things aren't going on or that our absences means that we're completely invisible. As good anthropologists, we always know how to read the silences and absences to see and hear what's there.

We'd love to see where you are doing UCSC Anthropology right now. What does UCSC Anthropology mean to you? And where would you like UCSC Anthropology to take you?