Recent Anthropology Ph.D. graduate Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein is a researcher at New Knowledge Organization, Ltd. From her profile in the October issue of Anthropology News:I lead media research at an interdisciplinary New York City-based think tank. I consider myself primarily a linguistic anthropologist, with a focus on various kinds of large-scale communication and theories of community […]
The prize was for her talk on decision making in capuchin monkey coalitions, “Testing hypotheses about social cognition with observational data: coalitions in white-faced capuchin monkeys.” Authors: Kotrina Kajokaite, Andrew Whalen, Karthik Panchanathan, and Susan Perry.
A new website called HowtoBeAMonkey.org provides a glimpse into life inside a Costa Rican tropical dry forest — both for the capuchin monkeys that call it home and the humans who observe them. Article @ UCLA Newsroom.
PhD Candidate Sonya Rao weighs in on how the professional community of anthropologists and academics can support the profession of interpreting, and in turn support migrants both at the border and throughout the process of seeking asylum. At UCLA, Rao writes about language rights and the labor issues of language service professionals, with a focus […]
Prof. De Leon is the director of the Undocumented Migration Project. Based at the University of Michigan, the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) is a long-term anthropological study of undocumented migration between Mexico and the United States that uses ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to better understand this clandestine social process.The article @ National Geographic
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Heather Loyd, Ph.D., talked to American Public Media’s Marketplace about her course “Careers in Anthropology.” The course provides an overview of various career paths for students with degrees in anthropology, and helps students develop academic and professional skills in preparation for life after UCLAListen to the story here.
