Anthropology

The spirit of community and desire to care for students prompted the quick development of summer classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Across the street from campus at the corner of Park Street and 6th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, sits a 30–by-80-foot plot that’s been tilled and cared for. In the milder months, you’ll see it filled with crops like peppers and radishes, and you’ll see Grinnellians working there.

Gates Lecturer: Michael Puett, Harvard University Michael Puett will present two lectures: “Ritual, Sincerity, and Human Flourishing: What Chinese Philosophers can Teach Us About the Good Life” and “Creating Worlds: Imagination and Interpretation in Classical China.”

The College has moved Salisbury House’s collection of nearly 5,000 rare books and historic documents to Burling Library’s climate-controlled Special Collections and Archives.

An anthropology major uses the city of Grinnell as a research lab.

On April 19, 2018, Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach, anthropology and American studies, gave a talk at the College of the Holy Cross. Her talk explored Jewish and intersectional identities and laid a historical context for the new anti-Semitism.

Panel to shed light on the causes that precipitated Catalonia’s bid for independence and the shared and opposed mentalities driving this conflict.

Nate Crail ’19 and Emily Ricker ’18 present the results of their research at 4:15 p.m. Nov. 14.

John Whittaker and Kathy Kamp are teaching this semester in Grinnell-in-London, with Justin Thomas, theater department, and Donna Vinter, who heads the program.

Rhett Lundy, Misha Laurence, Mekdes Assefa, and Anais Levin report on their research.