The Michigan State University Department of Anthropology is hosting the joint annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference and the Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference October 7–9, 2021, on MSU’s campus. Jodie O’Gorman, MSU associate professor and archaeologist, is leading the team responsible for organizing the conference. 

“Our membership gets together to share the research we’ve been doing. It’s an important opportunity for us to see colleagues, meet new and prospective students, and debate and discuss issues that are important to all of us,” O’Gorman said. 

The Midwest Archaeological Conference is the regional association for archaeologists and students working in the Mid-continent. It has been held annually for the last 64 years, except last year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Department of Anthropology is looking forward to bringing over 150 people and 21 student volunteers together again with special precautions to allow for social distancing.

“MSU has always been one of the most influential institutions in Midwest and Great Lakes archaeology,” O’Gorman said. “Many of our archaeology alumni still live and work in the Midwest and are members of MAC. They hold some of the most influential archaeology positions in national, state, and private organizations. We celebrate the opportunity to reconnect with them. We also see it as an opportunity to let others see how strong our program is.” 

The meeting this year is a joint meeting with the Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference because O’Gorman and her colleagues decided to co-host this meeting to stress the importance of both kinds of archaeology at MSU. The co-organizers are Drs. Jessica Yann and Stacey Camp, Director of MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program. 

“I hope people enjoy reconnecting with colleagues. Some of the papers reflect on archaeology in the time of COVID, and I think it’s important for us to share that and to support each other,” O’Gorman said. “I think people will also enjoy just getting back to a bit of normalcy in terms of hearing research papers.”

Attendees will attend sessions, workshops and a Campus Archaeology tour of MSU.

“One unique event is the MAC-sponsored symposium I co-organized with several former and current students,” O’Gorman said. “We’ve assembled 13 papers on ‘Midcontinental Cuisine: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Food and Cooking in the Heartland,’ about cuisine from ancient times to MSU’s early history. We’re also featuring MSU historical cuisine at the following reception in collaboration with MSU chefs.”

Other events during the conference are a workshop on building an inclusive culture in the field, and two workshops (one for students and one for practicing archaeologists) on 3D Digitization, Preservation, and Access in Archaeology and Heritage. The 3D workshops will be presented by Dr. Ethan Watrall in the college’s Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR), an interdisciplinary venture of Anthropology, History, and Matrix.

“The past cultures we study lived from the edge of the Plains into the forests of the Northeast, around the Great Lakes as well as smaller inland lakes, and along major and minor river valleys,” O’Gorman said. “Indigenous groups have been here since at least 15,000 years ago and their cultural heritage is especially rich and varied.”

Hosting the conference has special meaning to O’Gorman.

“I first became interested in MSU when I attended a MAC meeting here 22 years ago,” O’Gorman said. “That meeting led to my application for the position I hold now. As I think about retirement, I hope the younger generation of Midwest archaeologists attending this year will see what an exciting program we have.” 

To learn more about the Midwest Archaeology Conference, visit https://www.midwestarchaeology.org/about.

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Najib Hourani has received the inaugural 2021 College of Social Science Dean’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Award. Dr. Hourani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program, and core faculty in the Muslim Studies Program. The Dean’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Award “recognizes a faculty member who plays a leadership role in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion by demonstrating activities which may include serving underrepresented populations, developing or implementing innovative programs that enhance participation and opportunity, or enhancing the ability and effectiveness of the College to be an inclusive and welcoming environment.” Dr. Hourani is among the outstanding 2020–2021 College of Social Science award winners who have made a difference and have embodied what it means to be a social scientist.

“Dr. Hourani joined MSU’s faculty in the fall of 2006, and quickly established himself as a campus expert on the political anthropology of the Middle East, civil conflict, and cities of the Arab world. His past research focused on the Lebanese civil war and post-conflict urban reconstruction, and his current research builds upon the lessons learned in Beirut to address the rebirth of Syrian cities as that country’s decade-long civil war comes to an end…” Click here to read the full announcement from the College of Social Science.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hourani for this recognition of his comprehensive, impressive, and sustained accomplishments in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Department of Anthropology doctoral student Marwa Bakabas is featured as the Diversity Torch in this month’s College of Social Science Diversity Matters recognizing Arab American Heritage Month. Arab American Heritage Month commemorates the contributions of Arab Americans to American life and their struggles to receive full protections as American citizens. The College of Social Science Diversity Torches celebrate students who uphold a diversity value or ideal. As “Diversity Torches,” they provide light, guidance, and awareness to their fellow students and all who see them.

Marwa Bakabas is a PhD student in sociocultural Anthropology whose work centers on violence, forced migration, exile, and trauma in the Arab world. “Working with faculty advisor Dr. Mara Leichtman, whose research focuses on humanitarian work in the Middle East and Africa, Marwa is a sociocultural anthropologist studying the displacement of Yemeni refugees. For Marwa, the decision to start a PhD was a difficult one – but the community she found at MSU helped her pursue her passion project…” Click here to read the full feature

From Dr. Todd Fenton, Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology:

“On behalf of the faculty, I am writing to express our collective shock and sorrow at the violent attack in Georgia this past week. We condemn the brutal murder of Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, and Paul Andre Michels; eight individuals whose lives were taken in an act of hate. Six of the victims were Asian American women, and we recognize that these murders happened in a larger context of xenophobia, misogyny, and racism that has deep roots in US history. Further, we recognize that these hateful crimes aimed at Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans (APIDA) and Asian communities have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This horrifying act has redoubled our efforts, started last summer, to not only take a strong stand against hate, but also to create a more inclusive and tolerant culture within our own university community. As such, we stand in alliance with others within the MSU community asking for greater attention be given to the violence and harm that these communities have suffered, and to amplify the voices who are seeking substantive change. APIDA/AFSA, APASO, and OCAT have organized a town hall and vigil on Thursday, March 25^th that is open to the entire MSU community. Registration for the event can be found at the following link: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NObwUtHVQWy4NgAs5DB1kQ?fbclid=IwAR0el6IqXNiqndNya62qJVNj6yu-A4WpgDWk7i7lfYt_5fuWm2wVuRhGydI“

The MSU College of Social Science’s Diversity Matters monthly newsletters highlight our College’s engagement with our core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Dr. Nwando Achebe describes that each month’s focus is “guided by a Diversity Awareness Calendar” and “profiles the celebration of specific groups, cultures, and causes that reflect our diversity.” Each month, the College highlights a faculty or staff member Diversity Champion, a student Diversity Torch, and an alumni Diversity Spotlight. A list of resources also accompanies the monthly themes.

This month, Diversity Matters recognizes “Universal Human Rights Month,” which commemorates the inalienable rights of human beings. For their work on human rights, Department of Anthropology faculty member Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman is the featured Diversity Champion, Anthropology PhD student Mr. Juan Carlos Rico Noguera is the featured Diversity Torch, and Anthropology alumna Ms. Karen Phillippi is featured in the Diversity Spotlight.

Diversity Champion: Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman               

“Dr. Monir Moniruzzaman is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Michigan State University College of Social Science. His research examines human organ trafficking within the black market, and how to combat this human rights violation. Community-Academic Innovation and Dissemination (Community-AID) lab, which studies ways to support the success and well-being of families and youth of all backgrounds…” Click here to read more

Diversity Torch: Mr. Juan Carlos Rico Noguera

“Juan Carlos Rico Noguera is a PhD student within the Department of Anthropology at the Michigan State University College of Social Science. Born in Colombia, Juan’s research focuses on the Colombia Truth Commission (CTC), which gathers information and data to shine a light on human rights violations committed during the nation’s violent past…” Click here to read more

Diversity Spotlight: Ms. Karen Phillippi

“Karen Phillippi graduated from the Michigan State University College of Social Science in 1992 with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Women’s Studies. Since then, she has had a celebrated career in immigration law and is now the Director of New American Integration with the Office of Global Michigan. There, Karen supports integration at the state level by striving to remove or minimize barriers immigrants and refugees may face when trying to successfully transition to American life…” Click here to read more

Visit the College of Social Science Diversity Matters webpage at socialscience.msu.edu/diversity/

The Michigan State University Apparitions & Archaeology Haunted Campus Tour has gone online this year! For the entire month of October, participants can visit the online tour and learn about the sites on campus that are known for their paranormal activity and archaeological significance. The tour is a collaborative effort between the Campus Archaeology Program, housed in the Department of Anthropology, the MSU Paranormal Society, the Michigan State University Alumni Office, and the College of Social Science.

In addition to the online tour, Campus Archaeology Director Dr. Stacey Camp and Campus Archaeologist Jeff Burnett will host a Facebook Live event and answer participants’ questions about the tour on October 28 at 7:00pm. The live Q&A event can be accessed by visiting the Alumni Office’s Facebook page. Questions can be sent in via this form created by the MSU Alumni Office, or sent to the Alumni Office and/or Campus Archaeology email accounts and social media pages. These questions will be answered both at the Facebook Live event and on the Campus Archaeology blog.

The online tour is free and accessible to all who want to explore MSU’s haunted history. Participants can take the tour from home, or visit campus and take the virtual tour guide with them on their mobile device. If visiting campus, please remember that masks must be worn at all times, both indoors and outdoors.

The Apparitions & Archaeology Haunted Campus Tour was recently featured on WILX News 10 and in MSU Today.

Watch the spooky trailer for the tour and start it today at http://campusarch.msu.edu/hauntedtour/

Dr. Linda Hunt retired from the Department this spring after a remarkable career specializing in medical anthropology. Dr. Hunt attributes her early interest in anthropology to growing up in an eclectic household, with a Mexican catholic mother and New York Jewish father in an Irish-catholic neighborhood. With the diverse perspectives and realities surrounding her, she was always interested in understanding the conflicts and resolutions this fomented. After studying anthropology at Wayne State University, Dr. Hunt earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1992. Dr. Hunt joined the MSU Department of Anthropology in 1999 and attained Full Professor status in 2008.

Dr. Hunt’s research interests are rooted in the study of clinical medicine and healthcare delivery for racial/ethnic minorities. With numerous research projects in the U.S. and Mexico, Dr. Hunt’s work has covered topics including the culture of biomedicine, racial-ethnic health disparities, concepts of race and ethnicity in the health sciences, and corporatization of medicine. She became interested in these research foci while working in various medical research settings, where she saw the ways cultural constructions and market forces manifest themselves in what was assumed to be a scientifically neutral area. Much of Dr. Hunt’s research has examined the ways that health researchers and clinicians view minority populations, particularly how assumptions about the ways cultural and biological difference are manifest in clinical practice, professional training, research agendas, and health policy.

One area of accomplishment in Dr. Hunt’s outstanding career has been her great success in securing grants for her various research projects. Dr. Hunt was consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other public agencies over her career. Many of her large grants allowed her to employ numerous graduate assistants, and to collaborate with various faculty members. Dr. Hunt’s dedication to disseminate her research is evident in her prolific publication and presentation record. Over her career, Dr. Hunt has published nearly 70 articles, chapters, and reports, presented over 70 papers at professional conferences, and discussed her work in over 50 invited lectures worldwide.

Throughout her publishing activity, Dr. Hunt has always been committed to sharing her research in diverse venues in order to address medical and public health audiences. In doing so, thousands of practitioners outside the field of anthropology have accessed Dr. Hunt’s extensively cited research on genetic risk, cancer patient experience, chronic illness management, and health care reform. With her varied publications and collaborations, Dr. Hunt is regarded as a highly influential proponent for the value of anthropological perspectives in biomedical research and clinical practice. This extension of anthropology into the health sciences has helped advance the field of medical anthropology.

In reflecting on what she has enjoyed most during her career, Dr. Hunt recounts working with graduate students and teaching graduate courses, especially Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Dr. Hunt’s role as an extraordinary mentor is appreciated by students and colleagues, as she has constantly provided opportunities for collaboration and helped lay foundation for her students’ successful careers. Dr. Hunt is grateful to have had the opportunity to conduct a series of research projects that she felt would address socially important issues in a critical and productive fashion.

As an outdoor enthusiast, Dr. Hunt is looking forward to plenty of canoeing, kayaking, hiking, biking, skiing, and camping in her retirement. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hunt and thanking her for her profound and far-reaching contributions as professor, mentor, scholar, and advocate.

The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University denounces the systemic, institutionalized racism, violence, and oppression enacted against Black Americans in the United States. We abhor acts of police violence, and we mourn the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the many others who died as a result of excessive police force. We condemn the institutions that have continued to turn a blind eye to the seemingly endless violence committed against Black communities over the course of U.S. history. We decry the criminalization of peaceful protests that seek to draw attention to institutional racism and bring about positive institutional change. We recognize that all of this has happened within a global pandemic which has disproportionately affected Black communities and has laid bare the underlying inequalities that pervade our society. We stand in solidarity with our Black students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members and with the Black Lives Matter movement who are fighting to change these unjust systems.

As anthropologists, we understand how inequality emerges and how people, in the past and present, have resisted and undermined such structures. We understand our own disciplinary history as being rooted in European colonization and the oppression of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. We call upon our students, alumni, and colleagues to draw upon their disciplinary training and join us in working towards identifying and dismantling the insidious structures of power that continue to enable such violence and racism.

While we have been working together as a department to identify and address inequities, we realize that work has not had the impact we envisioned. We recognize we cannot simply “do more,” but that we need to take a hard look at our own capacity to act and imagine new ways of challenging existing structures. In particular, we recognize the glaring lack of Black department faculty, staff, and graduate students, and a deficit in our graduate and undergraduate curricula regarding courses on Black experiences in the U.S. and in the African Diaspora, and on race and ethnicity more generally. We commit to pursuing avenues to recruit, support, and retain diverse faculty, staff, and students. Though our university faces significant budgetary constraints amid the COVID-19 pandemic and our department has limited control over new faculty lines, we will reach out to MSU administration and look externally as well to support our efforts. We recognize that MSU as an academic institution, anthropology’s history as a discipline, and academia more broadly undergird existing structural inequities. We will support faculty and students working to advocate for changes to these institutions. As a department, we will create opportunities for our faculty, staff, and students to reflect upon, critique, and change our disciplinary and sub-disciplinary cultures. Guided by this document the faculty will develop an action plan over the course of the upcoming year.

We realize that our words are not enough and we need to do things differently going forward.

We will build on our department’s strengths to take immediate, concrete actions, and, where possible, identify clear goals and metrics in our department to redouble our efforts to combat the structural, disciplinary, and institutional racism and violence that has pervaded our society since the European colonization of North America. In collaboration with the faculty we will develop a specific plan for positive change using this provisional list of actions as foundation:

1. Asking every faculty member to do an equity audit of their syllabi to ensure scholars of color are represented in their assigned readings. The department will provide guidance and resources on the process of doing an equity audit, in addition to setting guidelines and expectations for these changes.
2. Asking every faculty member to examine and, when appropriate, revise the content of their courses to examine the history of race as a concept and the ways in which anthropology, as a discipline, has contributed to this history.
3. Continuing to hire paid outside facilitators at our annual faculty retreat every summer to train faculty in equity and inclusion and how it can be embedded in their research, teaching pedagogies, and mentoring.
4. Providing the resources and mentorship to help strengthen retention of minority faculty members in the department, and advocate for increasing the number of underrepresented minority faculty members across the university overall. We will work toward creating an environment in which a free and open discussion of diverse perspectives can occur, with attention to power differentials that may work to silence differing opinions.
5. Intensifying efforts to actively recruit and support BIPoC graduate students including providing a space for students to voice existing concerns within the department.
6. Holding an annual Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshop dedicated to issues of race and racial bias in social science research.
7. Hosting listening sessions with our students in the coming academic year to identify how we can better address the needs of our diverse student body and to engage with the larger campus community. We will use an outside facilitator who is not affiliated with the department to protect the anonymity of our students and who will communicate this feedback to our faculty. 
8. Committing to implementing training regarding how we engage with communities with whom we work. We will address and incorporate the research questions and interests of local communities into our research, and embed community members in our research when possible. We will focus on data dissemination and knowledge sharing beyond our narrowly defined scholarly communities.

• Archaeological research in our department will be conducted with a recognition toward histories of ancestral, traditional, and contemporary land use. We strive to build ethically sound, authentic relationships with the communities linked to these places as we conduct fieldwork and in our long-term curation practices. Department of Anthropology archaeologists are having discussions during Fall Semester 2020 regarding recommendations for changes to collections policy and inclusivity in the classroom, and will be reaching out to Michigan Tribes. The MSU Campus Archaeology Program has outlined the changes it will seek to implement on their June 7, 2020 blog: http://campusarch.msu.edu/?p=8125
• Sociocultural research within our department will acknowledge the history of the discipline and its role in the oppression of BIPoC communities. Our researchers recognize that they are guests within communities and will ensure that their work is designed according to the needs of and in collaboration with their hosts. We will work to make sure that human subjects protections are relevant and reasonable to the specific community with whom we work. Finally, we will amplify the voices of community members in their ongoing work for social and racial justice. 
• Biological anthropology research within our department will be conducted with our knowledge that human biology, variation, and history shows that race does not have roots in biology but in policies and practices of colonialism and oppression.

10. Developing pre-field training for our students and faculty in preventing and reporting harassment and discrimination in addition to the required Title IX training from MSU. This will include reading, reviewing, and discussing recent literature on the history of sexual harassment and discrimination in field school, study abroad, and fieldwork settings.

This statement was developed in consultation and collaboration with faculty and graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. It is a living document and will be altered and updated as discussions and events develop.

Dr. Todd Fenton Chair

Dr. Stacey Camp Associate Chair

Dr. Mindy Morgan Graduate Program Director

Dr. Andrea Louie
Chair of Undergraduate Programs and Curriculum Committee

Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Letter to the Department of Anthropology Faculty

The process of crafting the above Department of Anthropology statement was partially driven by a letter sent by the department’s graduate students, calling on the department to commit to specific changes the department would take to create positive changes. In the spirit of transparency, equity, and respect, we have included the letter below (at the request of those who originally submitted the letter)

Dear Department of Anthropology,

We, the graduate students of this department, are writing to strongly encourage you to address the current state of our country by sharing your stance on equality, justice, and inclusivity, while also committing to specific actions the department will take to create positive change. We are saddened and deeply disappointed that a unique statement from you, the faculty, who hold power in our universities and academic communities is absent. As social scientists and experts in the field on human diversity in its many forms, we have the responsibility to use these credentials in support of social movements like Black Lives Matter. This recognizes not just the power that the department and faculty have in the academic realm, but also on the broader scale of society as experts and knowledge creators. When people in power are silent during social unrest, they are appearing to choose the side of the oppressor despite supporting the suppressed, and inadvertently become an actor in the systemic racism plaguing our country. We ask you to not only declare your position on these issues to the department and the university, but we ask you to provide a plan to use your power to implement change. Taking a stance and committing to improving the future of our field is imperative for other faculty at the university, graduate students, and, especially, our large student body of undergraduates.

We ask the department to collectively address the following three objectives:

First, we ask the department to make an official statement on the current state of our country. We ask you to consider the following in the statement: an explicit recognition that Black Lives Matter; that the department denounces racism and oppression in all forms; and the department does not condone acts of police violence. We urge your statement to be sent to all faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students, which will show the department’s support at all levels.  We also urge you to share the department’s statement with the deans of the College of Social Science.  We ask for your statement to be broadcast across social media to show our support to those outside the department. We recommend that you post this letter, or a portion of it, to our department website and/or social media to show incoming and existing students the strength and unity of our department and the intentions of our graduate base. In addition to reaching those already a part of MSU, this will allow prospective students to feel the inclusive nature of our department fostering a more open community, and we would welcome an ongoing dialogue on these issues together. 

Second, we urge faculty to use your professional and personal connections in the field to push for real change in professional anthropology associations. We urge you to speak to your colleagues and put pressure on executive and diversity-focused committees within professional organizations (e.g., AAA, AAPA, SAA, etc.), as well as the presidents of your academic associations to address the structural and institutionalized racism and exclusion of Black people and other POC in the field, rather than falling back on a blanket statement. Those organizations who have made statements available broadly address methods of support, but not all organizations have addressed the unique position of Anthropology in the construction and perpetuation of systematic racism and oppression in the United States and around the world. Use your insider status to open up discussion at your conference’s business meeting to ask them to provide a platform to give Black, Indigenous, & POC (BIPOC) individuals a voice. We encourage you to urge leadership to make clear their stance on increasing inclusivity and diversity at the undergraduate level to the tenure-track professorship level. This includes asking professors and administrators to contemplate their role in admissions, mentorship, and retention of students in Anthropology. We ask professors to seriously contemplate: who they mentor; how they help non- white students access opportunities in higher education; to what extent their research perpetuates or combats the problematic aspects of our discipline; understand how to be an ally to their mentees and advocate for first generation, low income students; and work toward making Anthropology, a discipline primarily grounded in fieldwork, financially accessible and safe for BIPOC students. These reflections must extend to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career academics.

Third, we need to recognize and address the shortcomings in our department and acknowledge that Anthropology, as a discipline, was founded on the systematic oppression and marginalization of BIPOC groups. This is necessary to move beyond performative allyship. One improvement we propose is for the department to invest in starting anti-racists workshops that are mandatory for all faculty. Second, we ask that leadership provide an anonymous department-wide platform for students to anonymously share experiences/stories/general feelings about their experience as a minority in our field. This platform can provide an opportunity to learn what good and bad experiences BIPOC have had in the department, specifically undergraduates first entering our field. In this way, we can listen and learn from the BIPOC experience. We ask you, does our department have a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee and are these individuals, especially if BIPOC, compensated for this work? What are the demographics of our undergraduate courses and how can we improve diversity at these entry levels? What is our department doing to diversify hiring practices? What are our policies on bringing awareness to all marginalized social issues, such as racial, cultural, religious, and political issues? What can our department do in order to make these spaces safe and inclusive for BIPOC? Many of the methods and theories that we use today in our scholarship were influenced by and are a direct result of colonization, which served to legitimize the inferiority of BIPOC. No branch of the discipline is innocent, and a statement recognizing this is not just performative.

Making active decisions to decolonize your course content and scholarship so that diverse voices are amplified in our teaching is essential. We compel you to look at your course goals and urge you to keep the following points in mind when teaching:

• Aim for cultural understanding
• Awareness of how diversity emerges within and across cultures
• Reflect on experiences with diversity to demonstrate knowledge and sensitivity
• Examine the connections between social institutions and underlying values and belief systems of a community different from one’s own

We look forward to learning and discussing how you all will work collaboratively to make a plan towards enacting positive change in our department.

Please find an attached list of all graduate students who stand with this letter (not included for the sake of privacy). We urge you to use your voice for the good of your community, your students, the field, and all humankind. Sincerely,

The Graduate Students of Anthropology

Resources and Departmental Information

Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For a statement of our larger commitment and information about land acknowledgements see Land Acknowledgement

We encourage all of our community to become more aware of the issues, both historical and contemporary, that have contributed to the racial inequities in the U.S. and globally today. There is a vast amount of important scholarship and writing on these issues. The following are suggestions to begin and facilitate these conversations immediately:

Courses in Anthropology with Significant Material relating to Race and Racism:

ANP 236 The Anthropology of Peace and Justice
ANP 310 Archaeology of Human Migrations
ANP 320 Social and Cultural Theory
ANP 321 The Anthropology of Social Movements
ANP 325 Anthropology of Environment and Development
ANP 330 Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
ANP 364 Pseudoarchaeology
ANP 410 Anthropology of Latin America
ANP 417 Islam in Africa
ANP 419 Anthropology of the Middle East
ANP 420 Language and Culture
ANP 426 Urban Anthropology
ANP 436 Globalization and Justice
ANP 437 Asian Communities: A Global Perspective
ANP 439 Human Rights: Anthropological Perspectives
ANP 461 Method & Theory in Historical Archaeology
ANP 491 Heritage Tourism 

Resources on Racism and Inequalities in the United States

• Anthropology of Policing webinar on June 11th, American Anthropological Association
• “ Minneapolis is Burning ,” Irma McClaurin, Medium
• “ Who Gets to be Afraid in America, ” Ibram X. Kendi, Atlantic
• “Anti-racism Resources for White People” Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
• “ Racial Realities ,” Yolanda Moses, Sapiens
• “ Race is Real, but it’s not Genetic ” Alan Goodman, Sapiens
• Stamped from the Beginning , Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility , Robin DiAngelo
• “For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies ” Sojourners
• Understanding Race (from American Anthropological Association Understanding Race project) 

Resources to Support Protesters

• Bystander Training Resource ​https://www.ihollaback.org/
• Bail Project information and Resource: ​https://bailproject.org/