Anthropology

Jack Glazier Lecture Series

Browse summaries of the past 10 years of lectures from this Endowed Lecture Series.

2024: Dr. Michele Friedner, Professor and Chair, University of Chicago

"Sensory Futures and Political, Economic, and Social Production of Sense"
Poster

2023: Dr. Manduhai Buyandelger, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Why Do Mongolians Love Elections? Electable Selves, Postsocialism, and Campaigning"
Poster

2022: Dr. Micaela diLeonardo, Emerita Professor, Northwestern University

"Snark, Soul, Political Economy: The Rise of Progressive American Counterpublics with Micaela di Leonardo"
Poster

2021: Dr. Barbara J. King, Emerita Professor, William & Mary

"Animals’ Best Friends"
Poster

2020: Dr. Bernard C. Perley, Associate Professor, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Having Reservations: Humor and the Arts of Healing"
Poster

2019: Dr. Robin G. Nelson, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

"Carework, Kinship, and Child Thriving in the Caribbean"
Poster

2018: Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr., Curator of Native American Anthropology, University of Washington’s Burke Museum

"Repatriation of Knowledge: From Rare Museum Models to a Full-Sized Angyaaq"
Poster

2017: Dr. Deborah A. Thomas, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

"What Zora Neale Hurston Gives Black Studies: Tell My Horse, Imperial Politics and Everyday Love"
Poster

2016: Dr. Srimati Basu, Professor, University of Kentucky

"The Currency of Domestic Violence: Marriage, Property and Pulraism in Contemporary India"
Poster

2015: Dr. James Watson, Emeritus Professor, Harvard University

"Does hong Kong Have a Future? Prostcolonial Developments Since 1997"
Poster

2014: Dr. Jane H. Hill, Professor, University of Arizona

"Race, Language, and Culture: Together Again in Contemporary U.S. Language Ideologies"
Poster