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Collaboration across boundaries
Our chapter on adapting to the challenges of interdisciplinary research of coupled systems is out. Here is the full citation. Email me for a copy. Laborde, Sarah, Sui Chian Phang, and Mark Moritz…
Living their way into a new way of thinking
The Department of Anthropology recently changed the course Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTHROP 2202), which has been taught for almost as long as the department has been around, by no…
Crossing boundaries
Initiated by the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and authored by Jonathan Davies et al of the International Union for Conservation of…
Paper in PNAS
Our paper Emergent Sustainability in Open Property Regimes is out in PNAS. In the paper, we compared eight cases with more or less open access to common-pool resources to develop a theoretical model…
ASOM field visit
The ASOM research team is currently in its third field season, collecting hyrax middens, conducting a botanical study, and surveying the area for monuments and settlements. I had the pleasure of…
Making education affordable and transformative
We recently redesigned our introduction to cultural anthropology course using the ANTH101 course from award-winning professor Michael Wesch from Kansas State University. The premise of the course is…
Research in the red zone
Our paper on Research in the Red Zone is published in The Geographical Journal. The paper describes how our research team adapted to increasing insecurity in the field caused by Boko Haram. Here is…
Mark Anthony Arceo awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship
Mark Anthony Arceño is one of 20 recipients of the Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences fellowship, which is sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the U.S. The…
Presentation at SESYNC workshop
At the SESYNC Boundary Spanning conference I presented the preliminary synthesis of our MORSL project in a poster titled Synthesizing data, concepts, and models in interdisciplinary research of…