News and Awards
The Arctic World Archive: Storing Human Knowledge for a Long Winter
February 6: Noon – 1:20PM CST
The Marshall Sahlins Symposium in Haskell Hall, recorded on April 4, 2022, is available here.
"After Servitude - Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia" was published in June 2022 with University
Conference co-hosted by Constantine V. Nakassis (University of Chicago) and Jürgen Spitzmüller (University of Vienna, Linguistics) based on a grant from the International Faculty Grants Programme.
Department Events
| February 6, 2023
Monday Seminar | Ninety-Nine: Towards an Ethnography of God Amira Mittermaier | (University of Toronto) |
| February 13, 2023
Monday Seminar | Homo Saccharine, Southern Crossings Maria José de Abreu | (Columbia University) |
| February 20, 2023
Monday Seminar | Bananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism Alyssa Paredes | (University of Michigan) |
| February 27, 2023
Monday Seminar | Nisrin Elamin |
| March 6, 2023
Monday Seminar | Beth Semel |
Spotlight
ADRIAN S.Z. CHASE
Adrian S.Z. Chase is an anthropological archaeologist studying urbanism among the ancient Maya through the use of lidar data, excavated materials, and computational methods. Chase's body of work includes the study of reservoirs at the site of Caracol, Belize, with a focus on the computer analysis of lidar data in combination with archaeological data. His research at Caracol investigates ancient Maya urbanism, combining lidar and archaeological data to reconstruct and test neighborhoods, examine urban services and their provisioning, and analyze collective and autocratic governance. In addition to archaeological investigations at Caracol, Chase has participated in field research at Hirbemerdon Tepe in Turkey, and at Chichén Itza and Teotihuacan in Mexico.
Chase is a postdoctoral fellow with the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
