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Talk at African Studies Program
I visited Penn State University to give a talk about Insecurity and its impacts on pastoral systems in the Chad Basin in the Seminar Series of the African Studies Program and meet with colleagues…
Wenner-Gren Workshop: Beyond Ranchers and Pastoralists
Nikolaus Schareika and I received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to study the diversity and dynamics of livestock husbandry systems, i.e., go beyond the categories of ranchers…
Designing Ethnographic Research
I will present a new talk in the EED Research Seminar Series on how anthropologists use rigorous research design in ethnographic research projects in which I draw from my research…
Growing Pastoral Societies
Daniel Peart presented preliminary results from our ASOM project at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Vancouver, Canada.
Modeling Pastoral Dynamics
It's official. The National Science Foundation will support our modeling study of the demographic dynamics of herds and households in pastoral systems. The team consists of Ian Hamilton (EEOB/…
Innovate Fall Showcase
Mark Anthony Arceño and I presented how we use Carmen Canvas to support transformative learning in the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course at the Innovate Fall Showcase. We explained…
Mobility Data Published
All the mobility data from my CAREER project has now been published in the Movebank Data Repository. Today I published the second dataset that we used to examine whether there was an ideal free…
Go Theory!
This week, students played Go Theory in my graduate seminar on anthropological theory. The game is based on the Dutch game Kwartet, which is a more complex version of Go Fish. The suits of…
Camel culture
My photo "Camel Culture" has been selected for the 2019 International Photography Exhibition of the Office of International Affairs. It is a picture of me taking a picture of our guide Hassan…