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Duschinski Chairs Panel, Presents at American Anthropological Association

Dr. Haley Duschinski

Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, chaired a panel on “Political Dramas and the Politics of Evidence” for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 2016. The theme […]

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February 21, 2017 at 3:43 pmResearch

Curran and Team Awarded NSF Funds to Continue Pleistocene Research in Romania

Newly excavated partial mammoth skeleton n in lab at Institute of Speleology in Romania.

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Last summer Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to Romania to continue her research involving the geographical movement of the Homo erectus species, an ancestor of modern humans, during the early Pleistocene. Her interest in this project began in 2008, when she first traveled to […]

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February 14, 2017 at 10:16 amNews

Sociology Student Presents Research at American Society of Criminology

Sociology Student Presents Research at American Society of Criminology

  Babz Jewell, a Sociology master’s student in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, presented research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November. The paper, “Marked Men: A Photography Study of Veterans Court Participants” was part of a panel on “The Same […]

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February 13, 2017 at 4:27 pmResearch

New Archaeology Professor Receives National Science Foundation Grant

Dr. Joseph Gingerich

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Joseph Gingerich, was recently awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to continue research on artifacts from the Shawnee-Minisink archaeological site, located in the Upper Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania. According to Gingerich’s project summary, “detailed excavations of the Clovis level, dated to […]

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February 13, 2017 at 10:46 amNews

Li Speaks at an International Symposium on Green Development and Global Governance

Li Speaks at an International Symposium on Green Development and Global Governance

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, was invited to deliver his research talk entitled “Environmental Justice and Green Development” at Dong Hu forum – an international symposium on Green Development and Global Governance held at Wuhan, China in Nov., 12-13, 2016. Environmental Justice and New Horizon of […]

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February 9, 2017 at 11:39 amResearch

Musaraj Presents on Corruption, Hidden Cameras and Satire at Symposium in Portugal

Dr. Smoki Musaraj presenting at the 2016 Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium in Sintra, Portugal. Courtesy of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, presented a paper at the Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium in September 2016 at Tivoli Palacio de Seteais in Sintra, Portugal. Musaraj presented the paper “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Anti-corruption.” The paper examines the rising […]

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February 2, 2017 at 1:36 pmResearch

Terman Probes Identity Issues Facing Young Adults in Rural Appalachia

Dr. Anna Rachel Terman

Over three years, Dr. Anna Rachel Terman was engaged in field research in West Virginia. Now in her second year at Ohio University, Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has completed her research and presented a portion of her findings Aug. 9 at the Rural Sociological Society Conference in Toronto. In […]

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September 24, 2016 at 11:45 amResearch