In 2017 I organized and hosted the Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology and this year it is hosted by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada on November 19 & 20, 2019. Dr. Vinay Kamat (UBC Host) and Dr. Susan
We had quite a year in the WWU Medical Anthropology Lab. 2016-2017 was busy with pilot projects, presentations, manuscript writing… and a NCAA DII Rowing Championship Gold Medal for Giselle Kiraly (website). I started the year by attending Short Courses on
Several of my students have been involved with planning for the Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology, hosted this year by the WWU Department of Anthropology and sponsored by WWW Gordon H. and Alice C. Fraser Lecture Series. The seminar kicks off April
Plans are underway for WWU’s Anthropology Department to host the 4th Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology! The Cascadia Seminar is an experiment in creating a new kind of intellectual space for medical anthropology in the “Cascadia” region (i.e., the US Pacific