Anthropology

  • Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell was interviewed at length for the Food Chain programme on BBC World about food in former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  

  • Climate Change Prompted Migrations in Ancient Peru, Says Genetic Study

    Climate Change Prompted Migrations in Ancient Peru, Says Genetic Study

    Popular Archaeology wrote about a paper by assistant anthropology professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz about his research that uses DNA analysis to trace migrations in ancient Peru to climate change.

  • Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness

    Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness

    New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert quoted extensively from assistant anthropology professor Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 's book The Slumbering Masses in her article on sleeping and sleep problems. The Huffington Post's HuffPost Live followed The New Yorker with an online video report on the same subjecct and interviewed Wolf-Meyer via Skype.

Last modified: Apr 22, 2025