Spring 2021
Spring 2021
ANTH 102: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Valerie Lambert
This class is designed to give you a better understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience and the fact that there are multiple perspectives within and across different societies. You will be encouraged to explore these experiences and perspectives through readings, lectures and films which will help you try to see the world from different points of view. At the same time, you will learn what it is like to be an anthropologist and what skills and techniques anthropologists use to try to better understand the perspectives, experiences, and viewpoints of different peoples.
ANTH 206: American Indian Societies
Dr. Valerie Lambert
This course engages in an exploration of 20th– and 21st-century American Indian tribes in the United States. We will wrestle with material that provides insight into the experience and challenges of particular tribes or communities. As we learn about the different kinds of sociocultural landscapes and histories that shape Indian and non-Indian experience in these geographic spaces, we also gain a perspective on the range of experiences, problems, and challenges American Indians in the United States face both as tribes and as individuals.
ANTH 490: Race, Place and Violence: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Dr. Karla Slocum
The HBO series, Watchmen increased public awareness of the 1921 attack by Whites on an Oklahoma Black community known as Greenwood. But what more is there to know about this horrific event? This class uses an anthropological lens to explore not only what happened in Greenwood, but also what the historic massacre of a Black community tells us about race, place and violence in America. Through readings, podcasts, films, guest lectures and popular culture, students will understand how the past and present Black Tulsa experience relates to larger questions of race, place, and the long history of threats to Black life in the U.S.
ANTH 68: Forced Out and Fenced In | New Ethnographies of Latinx Migration
Dr. Angela Stuesse
Undocumented immigration receives considerable media attention in the United States today. But what does it actually mean to be undocumented? How does illegality shape the lived realities of migrants themselves? Through in-depth engagement with five new ethnographies on the topic, this course examines the social, political, and legal challenges faced by undocumented Latinx immigrants and their families.
ANTH 850: Engaging Ethnography
Dr. Angela Stuesse
What is engaged ethnography? We often speak of engaged research, but what does it look like on the ground? How is it represented through textual narrative? And what difference does it make in the “real” world? In this seminar students engage these questions through an exploration of ethnographies produced by politically- and community-engaged scholars. With an eye to how methodologies, epistemologies, and the products of research are transformed by various forms of engagement, students work toward defining their own approach to engaged scholarship.