Stories tagged with: Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Athena Cinema at night.

‘King Coal’ to visit Athens on Feb. 8 for Athena Cinema’s ‘From the Hills and Hollers: Appalachian Stories’ film series

The Athena Cinema will offer a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “King Coal,” the latest film from Academy Award-nominated director Elaine McMillion Sheldon on Thursday, Feb. 8.

A group of Ohio University students, dressed in masks, gloves and protective hair nets, work to restore historical documents damaged by water and mold.

From classroom to community: Ohio history gets a helping hand from students

Ohio University students are reviving the past. Led by Associate Professor of Anthropology Nancy Tatarek, Ph.D., the students are hard at work preserving the history of southeastern Ohio.

Sabrina Curran, Ph.D., examines fossil replicas of early humans and primates in front of her Introduction to Biological Anthropology class on Sept. 28, 2023.

OHIO students get hands-on experience with fossil replicas

More than 300 bone and fossil replicas, ranging from gorilla skulls to rare ones like the hominin “Lucy,” are available to sociology and anthropology students thanks to a recent funding award.

The Ohio University sundial

Students from five colleges admitted to Certificate in Law, Justice & Culture program

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture announced its next cohort of Ohio University students that have been admitted to the undergraduate Certificate in Law, Justice & Culture program.

Haley Duschinski

OHIO Professor Haley Duschinski advances scholarship on Kashmir in new book

Ohio University’s Haley Duschinski, Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Director of the MA Program in Law, Justice & Culture, has recently published The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies.

2023-24 Mock Trial team members, group photo

Mock Trial Team selects 2023-24 members amid steep competition

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team selected 20 students, including three first-year students, to form two teams for the 2023-24 academic year.

Johnathan Roberts
Student Success

Johnathan Roberts helps relaunch Ohio University Chillicothe Student Resource Center

Johnathan Roberts was recently selected as an Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps volunteer for the 2023-2024 academic year at Ohio University Chillicothe.

Student group in front of a mural in Northern Ireland

Students invited to information sessions for study abroad in Northern Ireland, South Africa

Students are invited to information sessions for Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland over spring break and Law, Justice & Transitions to Democracy in South Africa for two weeks in May. 

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Archaeology students have their own blockbuster summer adventure

Field School in Ohio Archaeology students are spending their summer searching for artifacts from Ohio's first peoples—one square meter of earth at a time.

Settling Ohio book cover

Professors' new book traces Ohio history from first peoples to first settlers

The official founding of the state of Ohio dates back to 1803, but human habitation in Ohio goes back much further, back to the first peoples who helped shape the state we know today.

Archaeologist David Lamp works in a one-meter square part of a dig near Lancaster.

Student David Lamp makes discovery of a lifetime: fluted point from first peoples in Ohio

David Lamp was on his hands and knees, trowel in hand, back at OHIO as a graduate student on June 2, when he made the discovery of a lifetime.

Hailey Gifford, portrait

Hailey Gifford found passion and power interning with ACLU of Ohio

Hailey Gifford wants to influence policy, and she recently found a home for that passion in an internship with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.

Madeleine Hordinski

Women Who Tell Our Stories: Madeleine Hordinski

Madeleine Hordinski BA ’20, BSVC ’20, has been taking pictures of people ever since she was in her young teens. Now, the freelancer's work has appeared in multiple national publications.

Ryan Steere from the College of Arts & Sciences won first place and the People’s Choice master's award.
Student Success

Eight graduate students win cash awards in Three Minute Thesis competition

Eight graduate students won cash awards at the Ohio University Three Minute Thesis Competition finals hosted by the Graduate College on Feb. 23.

Matt Rosen, portrait

Matt Rosen's work finds books, ideas are helping post-socialist Albania shape its modern culture

Cultural anthropologist Matthew Rosen traveled to Albania in 2015, looking for a place to study the relationship between literature and social life.

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