Dr. Debra Vidali’s undergraduate course visited the Etowah Mounds. Home to several thousand Native Americans from 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D., this 54-acre site protects six earthen mounds, a plaza, village site, borrow pits and defensive ditch. Etowah Mounds is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeast.
Dr. Debra Vidali’s undergraduate class visited New Echota. New Echota was the Cherokee Nation capital in 1825 and the starting point of the 1838 Trail of Tears. Also the location of Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper published by Native Americans, and in a Native American language.
The Anthropology Department successfully hosted a lively Showcase on Native American issues on Tuesday November 8th. Students in Emory University’s Indigenous Peoples of North America course presented their enlightening projects exploring public education and social justice applications on Native American histories, identities and present day controversies including the #DakotaAccessPipeline and #WaterisLife movement. The class had the opportunity to present to an audience from the Emory community and beyond, including the President Dr. Claire Sterk and Senior Vice President Ajay Nair.
The event was followed by an animated discussion.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, GA announces a special initiative to recruit excellent research scientists, scholars and teachers with a strong, established commitment and history of mentoring students from underrepresented and underserved populations. Two tenure track (open rank) and two lecture track (open rank) faculty appointments will contribute to our commitment to excellence and diversity in one or more of the following departments/ areas: Biology, Biological Anthropology, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Physics, and/or Psychology. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline.
Candidates for two open rank tenure track positions should have outstanding records of scholarly publications, research support and teaching. Faculty appointments will be made at a professorial rank commensurate with current academic standing and achievement. The successful candidates will be expected to continue her/his active research program and to participate in campus-wide interdisciplinary and departmental programs that provide research and professional development opportunities for our diverse student body.
Candidates for two open-rank lecture-track positions should have outstanding records of teaching, curricular development and advising. Faculty appointments will be made at the Lecture Track rank commensurate with current academic standing and achievement (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor of Pedagogy). Successful candidates will be encouraged to participate in campus-wide interdisciplinary and departmental programs that provide research and professional development opportunities for our diverse student body.
Emory College has a tradition of dedicated teaching and mentorship of undergraduates that will be enhanced through this special initiative. Emory is a private university recognized internationally for its undergraduate Emory College of Arts and Sciences as well as its graduate and professional schools. Together Emory College and the university’s seven graduate/professional schools feature renowned faculty and offer more than 100 degree programs and majors, with an enrollment of nearly 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
As a campus with a highly diverse student body, we encourage applications from women, minorities, and those with a history of mentoring students of under-represented groups in the sciences.
Applicants should apply through:
apply.interfolio.com/37312 – Lecture track positions
apply.interfolio.com/37231 – Tenure track positions
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2016 and continue until positions are filled.
Questions should be sent to Carla Freeman, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, emorysciencesearch@emory.edu.
The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position to begin August 2017. While we are seeking an Assistant Professor, in unusual circumstances we will also consider applicants at the Associate Professor rank. We seek a scholar who specializes in the study of race, social inequality, and/or social justice. We welcome applications from candidates whose work is explicit in its use of social theory and rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative research methods. We also welcome applications from scholars who in their research and teaching will offer unique and compelling perspectives on diversity.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses related to the individual’s specializations as well as more general introductory courses in Anthropology. Consistent with Emory’s mission of engaged scholarship and excellence in liberal arts education, we seek a scholar with a documented record of innovative field research, demonstrated strength in teaching, and a PhD in hand by the time of appointment.
A complete application will include a letter of intent that includes a research and teaching statement, CV, a writing sample consisting of an article, thesis chapter, or book chapter, and names of three referees. Initial consideration of applications will begin immediately and applications will be accepted through November 14, 2016. To apply for this position, please visit apply.interfolio.com/37447 and submit your materials free of charge through Interfolio.
Emory University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Disability/Veteran employer. The Department of Anthropology, Emory College, and Emory University are all strongly committed to recruiting female and minority candidates. Women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Dr. Adrian Jaeggi’s work studying the relationship between male social status and reproductive success in non-industrial societies has been featured in Emory’s eScience Commons.
“We were surprised to learn that the correlation held up for a range of societies and their different measures for status,” says Adrian Jaeggi, an anthropologist at Emory University focused on primate and human behavioral ecology. “It doesn’t matter whether a man is a better hunter, owns more land or more livestock – men with high social status had more children compared to men with low status.”
The work of ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave (BS, Emory Anthropology) was featured in the New York Times Magazine in an article titled “Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?” She was also featured on NPR’s On Point.
Dr. Jenny Chio’s book, A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China, has been reviewed in American Anthropologist!
In addition to the Krotovo film festival in Macedonia, Dr. Anna Grimshaw’s film “At Low Tide” will be screened at the 2016 American Anthropological Association meetings in Minneapolis, the Days of Ethnographic Cinema Festival in Moscow, and the Greek Ethnographic Film Festival in Athens!
This film was supported by an Emory University Research Council grant. Check out the trailer at https://vimeo.com/172429715.
Isabella Alexander, Visiting Assistant Professor and Alumna of Emory Anthropology, wrote an article for Public Radio International (PRI) on the migrant crisis at the Moroccan border.
You can also listen to the accompanying radio special on PRI’s The World at http://www.pri.org/node/154322/popout (starting at minute 6.25).
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