David Turkon, Associate Professor for the Department of Anthropology will speak at the next Food for Thought meeting on Monday February 21, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Friends 203. 

During the 2009-2010 academic year, I was lucky enough to be on a Fulbright scholarship in Dhaka, Bangladesh. During this time, I engaged in language classes and undertook a research project looking at how upper-middle-class women in Dhaka negotiate the pressures of religion, Westernization, and national identity through sexuality. I chose this topic in part because the world of upper-class...

Where did the idea for your research project come from?
After taking Arabic classes at IC and spending a semester in Jordan my sophomore year, I started looking around and realizing that, though there were obviously Muslim students on campus, they didn't seem to have much of a visible presence. I was curious as to why that was. I wanted to investigate why Muslim...

Jack Rossen’s Chilean research helped redefine archaeologists’ understanding of America’s first settlers. 

By Keith Davis

Mapmakers once...

By Kate Larrabee

Some Ithaca College grads follow the straight and narrow path from college to career. Others, like Greg Silverman, find themselves on a more circuitous route.

As an Ithaca student, Silverman studied anthropology and politics. He then went on to graduate school at the...