THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
In The Spotlight:
New research led by Madeleine McLeester, PhD'17 (Anthropology) and published in Science, found that an area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. Read about this discovery in the New York Times.
Sanghamitra Das recently published “Sensing Climate Change in the Blood: Sickle Cell Disease, Environment, and Health among Indigenous Adivasi Communities in India” in EcoFutures, a project of CoFutures at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University.
Scholars including Michael Dietler bring novel data and perspectives to the study of economic, cultural, and territorial networks in the Mediterranean before the region was connected by Rome in Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia (900-200 BCE).
