Spring 2018
GOOD NEWS
Summer Courses ANTH221: Introduction to Forensic Sciences Erin Guthrie ANTH222: Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology Erin Guthrie & Miguel Vilar ANTH240: Introduction to Archaeology Joshua Samuels ANTH260: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics Stanley Herman ANTH263: Sexuality and Culture Charneka Lane ANTH265: Anthropology of Global Health Laura Jung ANTH266: Changing Climate, Changing Cultures Jana Kopelentova Rehak & Jared Schultz ANTH473: Native American Languages and Cultures Jacqueline Messing ANTH474: Language, Racism & Identity Jacqueline Messing
Message from Chair This year we performed a faculty search and in the fall semester we are welcoming two new faculty members to the Department. Dr. Daniel Contreras is an Environmental Archaeologist with strong computational analytical skills. He works in interdisciplinary teams and his modeling work can be applied in a variety of cultural contexts. He does fieldwork in Andean South America and Mesoamerica as well as the Mediterranean. Dr. Yancey Orr explores indigenous environmental knowledge as well as how the sustainability movement emerges out of heterogeneous actors and communities. He mostly works in an international context - Southeast Asia, and he has a strong background in anthropological theory. Also - Good News - is the promotion of Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy to Associate Professor. Over the past few years she has developed a variety of research programs that varied from fracking in western Maryland to studying migrant health issues on Maryland’s eastern shore. This issue of “Good News” provides an overview of the excellent research, scholarship, and teaching that our students, staff and faculty perform in service to local, state, and national communities. This work is quite broad and varied and you will find that their work is truly good news. Congratulations to all, and wishing you all the best for a great summer. 1 Paul