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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…
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.…
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…
Critical transition from pastoralism to ranching
Nikolaus Schareika and I presented our paper on Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa at the Workshop Land deals and their consequences in the Global South…
Le parc est une jungle
Interview with Mouazamou Ahmadou, collaborator from the University of Maroua, in newspaper
File Dossier Mouazamou Ahmadou.pdf (opens in a new window)109.95…
Paper in Human Ecology
New paper in Human Ecology by Sarah Laborde et al. on the interplay of top-down planning and adaptive self-organization in an African floodplain. Here is the abstract: Natural floodplains are…
Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Pallavi Oruganti, a former undergraduate in anthropology, published her undergraduate thesis in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife. The article is titled Hunters’ knowledge, attitudes, and…