This anthropology course explores human attempts to extend sensory capacities through robots, sensors, nonhuman animals, and plants, considering how colonialism, race, disability, gender, and surveillance shape the desire to sense beyond the human.
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This history course explores Indigenous women’s experiences in the history of Latin America including the dynamics of women’s social movements in the region, whose agendas often conflict with established gendered traditions.
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This course explores anthropological approaches to the law and legal regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between law, power and politics, social hierarchy, and the institutionalization of inequality in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.
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This health studies course explores the human experience of cancer patients and their families to provide a lens to critically examine the healthcare system and sociopolitical conditions of their societies.
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A new paper by a team that includes Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jonathan Wilson provides a new perspective on a chapter in plant evolutionary history by focusing on the role of low temperatures in shaping terrestrial forests.
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This modern Japanese language course immerses students in an array of common Japanese media forms that subtly reinforce powerful, widely held, and often unquestioned historical, cultural, and political preconceptions underlying popular ideas about Japanese identity.
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The assistant professor of physics and astronomy was awarded a $135,000 grant from the NSF to both fund research in cosmology and help support students.
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“The Contest in the Fruits” exhibition in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery puts a modern, hip-hop spin on an ancient Uyghur poem.
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This first-year writing seminar explores the structural and historical conditions that define higher education, and offers an opportunity to explore those conditions by asking what college is as a historical, political-economic, and cultural institution.
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Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
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Learn more about the new assistant professor of biology.
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Learn more about the new assistant professor of neuroscience.
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The grant will support the assistant professor of psychology’s research on how children overlap race and gender in their representation of social categories.
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The assistant professor of psychology will study how estrogen fluctuations during the postpartum period impact brain circuitry and behavior thanks to a new $439,072 grant.
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The associate professor of computer science will take a leave of absence from the College to become the assistant director for data and democracy.