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Tales from the Field: Doing Research in Peru in a Time of Terrorism, Cholera, and Hyper-Inflation

Alumni Building, Room 308 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

  About the Speaker Brian Billman Associate Professor Area of Interest: Archaeology of Chiefdoms and States, Political Economy, Human Violence, the Evolution of Human Behavior, Heritage Preservation, Settlement Pattern Analysis, the prehistory of the Andes and the American Southwest. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- … Read more

Kathy Galvin, ‘Research and Engagement in the Savanna of East Africa’

Alumni Building, Room 308 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Kathy Galvin is professor of anthropology and director of the Africa Center at Colorado State University. She has conducted interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research in the savannas of East Africa for over 30 years. Galvin has worked with local pastoralists on … Read more

Ruth Goldstein, ‘When Mines are Like Women and Men are Like Mercury: Riddling Human-Environmental Relations’

Alumni Building, Room 308 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Ruth Goldstein is assistant professor of global and international studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests are in environmental, medical and feminist anthropology. Her current book project, Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold Along the Interoceanic Highway, … Read more