Anthropology

Indigenous Feminisms was by far my favorite course taken in Anthropology. I was able to gain such unique and deep insight about the world, race, gender, power—read this midterm essay to see what I learned in the first three weeks.

In Fundamentals of Archaeology, I got to look at so much cool stuff—bones, spear and arrow heads, and more. But I was most excited to learn about how archeology interacts with policy, research, and with the communities it studies. 

In Anthropologies of Place, I felt nervous and out of place because I was one of the younger students in the class. But through these weekly field journals, I felt like I was able to operationalize what it means to exist in, of, around and between spaces, and how to really be a part of them. We practiced being "in the field" as anthropologists.

This is the second paper I wrote for Indigenous Feminisms, honing my understanding of a concept that is central to anthropology: desire- versus damage-centered research. How do we use damage to understand, and pathologize, entire groups of people? Why is this harmful?

Cultural Anthropology was the first anthropology class I'd ever taken. We read a book called Infected Kin by Ellen Block and Will McGrath about HIV/AIDS in Lesotho; this essay is my analysis of the efforts described in this book.