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Reconstruction of a Crannog, an Iron Age loch-dwelling found in Scotland and Ireland [Photo Credit: Tabea Mastel]
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An Education in Anthropology
Anthropologists study human beings from every time period, in every way possible, and in all their complexity. Click here to learn more about what a degree in Anthropology can do for you.
The Department of Anthropology at Berkeley has long been ranked among the top five departments in the United States.
Berkeley Anthropologists have a history of innovation and leadership in emergent areas of the discipline, whether conducting their research in modern biological labs, in globalizing villages throughout the world, or at places being developed as sites of cultural heritage and national identity. The Berkeley faculty includes the largest number of winners of the J. I. Staley Prize(link is external), awarded annually to an outstanding anthropology book by a living author, the only discipline-wide award in anthropology.
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Professor James Holston has been awarded $3.1 million for five years from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The NIH award funds “Proyecto Tariki” (Quechua for I found you), a collaborative research and implementation initiative developed with three other principal investigators, Dr. Josefina Coloma (immunologist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health), Dr. Valerie Paz-Soldan (social epidemiologist based at Tulane University and in Lima, Peru), and Dr. Amy Morrison (entomologist based at UC Davis and in Iquitos, Peru). The goal of the project is to reduce the risk of dengue virus infection and improve health outcomes for dengue fever in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru.
Project Tariki proposes such a paradigm change through the use of new digital technologies (the platform DengueChat) and direct democratic assemblies of neighborhood residents.
Developed by the Social Apps Lab at the Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, DengueChat was successfully deployed to reduce dengue risk in Nicaragua and Paraguay.
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Anthropology Faculty Member: Carolyn Smith featured on Berkeley News
Indigenous anthropologist and new Berkeley professor finds family, hope in basket weaving
In addition to her research on baskets, Carolyn Smith is teaching museum methods this fall. "We have to shine a light on the painful legacy of the field of museum anthropology so that there can be remediation and reconciliation," she said.
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