Students in ANTH 211 and PSCI 214 will present their research projects on environmental anthro and environmental politics in a poster session.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Assembling Networks of Care in Global Maternal Health; Technologies, Tasks, and Traditional Birth Attendants” with Prof. Margaret MacDonald.
What kind of new assemblages of care are needed to improve maternal health in global health settings? This talk opens with a focus on the social life of misoprostol, a controversial drug in reproductive and maternal health, as an entre into talking about how technologies and techniques (including medicines) are assembled alongside health providers in global health settings. Drawing on research tracking the global campaigns to reduce maternal mortality as well as contemporary ethnographic research on health projects in rural Senegal, another controversial figure emerges: that of the Traditional Birth Attendant whose recent return to favour in global health policy after decades of being sidelined, has opened the way for new assemblages of care, including new tasks and the use of new technologies such misoprostol, with the goal of improving maternal health outcomes.
Professor MacDonald is a medical anthropologist specializing in global maternal health and ethnographic research with NGOs in Senegal and amongst midwives and their clients in Canada. Her interests lie in how cultures of biomedicine, science, and technology as well as their alternatives shape our ideas and practices concerning health, illness, and health care.
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Virtual Middlebury
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The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “Resilient Democratization: Social and Political Change in Iran and Beyond” with Norma Claire Moruzzi.
Based on the author’s book, “Tied Up in Tehran: Women, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran” (Cambridge University Press, 2025), this talk examines the social conditions that gave rise to the widespread street protests in Iran and the ensuing violent state repression during the winter of 2025–26. It further explores the broader implications of these developments for democratization and regional security in the Middle East.
Norma Claire Moruzzi is Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies, with Affiliations in History and Art History, Director of the International Studies Program, and Co-Chair of the Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster at UIC. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Iranian Studies, and a past chair and member of the editorial committee of the journal Middle East Report. Her research and teaching address the politics of social identity, with particular emphasis on the intersection of gender, religion, and nationalisms.
In-person event. For more information on the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, click here.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
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November 2025: Poetry and illustrations by Fulya Pinar, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, were published in the latest issue of Otherwise Magazine. You can read the corresponding interview with her here.
September 2025: Marybeth Nevins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, gave the keynote presentation at the Anthropologie Linguistique dans la Québec et l’Ontario conference on September 26, 2025. Her talk was titled, Born in a Storm: A Short Narrative History of Linguistic Anthropology.
August 2025: A group of Middlebury anthropology students created a new online magazine called “Anthro Action.” Check out the first issue here!
For archived issues, contact the Department Coordinator.
Fitzsimmons, James L.
2024 “Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracan taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves,” The Conversation; https://theconversation.com/centuries-agothe-maya-storm-god-huracan-taught-that-when-we-damagenature-we-damage-ourselves-238180.
2021 “Termination and regeneration: the use of ash in ancient Mesoamerica,” in Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past, edited by Barbara Roth and E. Charles Adams, pp. 213–238. Berghahn Press, New York.
2018 “Transformations at Cuello: Results from the 2017 Season of the Classic Cuello Archaeological Project,” in Archaeology in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2017 Belize Archaeology Symposium, John Morris, Melissa Badillo, and George Thompson, eds., pp. 121–130 (with Natalie Figueroa ’18 and Prasanna Vankina ’18). Belmopan, Belize: Institute of Archaeology.
Nevins, M. E.
2024 Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Oxfeld, Ellen
2020 “The Moral Registers of Banqueting in Contemporary China,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
2020 “Life-Cycle Rituals in Rural and Urban China: Birth, Marriage and Death,” in Handbook on Religion in China, Stephan Feuchtwang, ed., pp. 110–132. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2020 “Bitter Greens and Sweet Potatoes: Food Practice and Memories of Hunger in Rural China” in Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival, Tamar Mayer and Molly Anderson, eds., pp. 166–179. New York: Routledge.
2020 “Rural Chinese Families: The Continuing Relevance of Moral Obligation,” in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society, Kevin Latham, ed., pp. 174–194. New York: Routledge.
Pinar, Fulya
2025 “Deportation as punishment and the everyday war on migrants from Turkey to the United States,” Middle East Research and Information Project, https://www.merip.org/2025/06/deportation-as-punishment-2/
Sheridan, Michael
2024 Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. London: Routledge. Paperback edition.
Stoll, David
2024 “Why immigrants need U.S. border enforcement,” Quillette, November 24, 2024. https://quillette.com/2024/11/26/immigrants-also-need-usborder-enforcement-us-mexico-border-control-trump latinos/
2018 “David Stoll: A Rush to Judgment?” (critique of the Jerry Sandusky trial), vtdigger.org, April 6.
2019 “Desperate Refugees or Desperate Debtors? Why the Latest Border Surge Is Bad News for Democrats,” American Interest, April 10.
