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Endre Nyerges will
be program chair for the 2007/2008 academic year.
Andrea Abrahams will
be joining the program for the 2007/2008 academic year, and will
be teaching two new courses.
Centre hosted the A.S.K.
2006 Conference!
The Anthropology and
Sociology Program at Centre College hosted the 2006 Annual
Meeting of the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky on
October 27 and 28, 2006. We invited papers and panel session
proposals from anthropology and sociology faculty, students, and
scholars. There was also a Student Paper Contest. The Guest
Speakers included Professor Mary Anglin from the University
of Kentucky’s Department of Anthropology and Professor David May
from Eastern Kentucky University’s Department of Correctional
and Juvenile Justice Studies. Please see the
conference website for additional information.
The Ring of Fire trip to
Southeast Asia
was led by Gareth Barkin and Phyllis Passariello during
CentreTerm 2007. For more information,
visit the trip's
website.
A
story about students meeting
professors at home is
here.
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Phyllis Passariello
was awarded the W. George
Matton endowed professorship, and received funding to attend an
NEH summer workshop on regional culture in Oaxaca.
Gareth Barkin
will be directing the Centre in London program for spring, 2008.
Ring of Fire
Picture of the Week
20 Questions with Gareth Barkin
Endre Nyerges
was awarded a Stodghill Research
Professor leave of absence for spring 2007.
Phyllis Passariello
was promoted to full professor. She led Centre's program in
Merida, Mexico, in the Fall term, 2004. In the Centre Term, 2005
she took students to Ecuador. A story about her "Introduction to
Folklore" as a favorite class is
here.
Endre Nyerges was
named a Centre Scholar for 2004 - 06 in recognition of
excellence in research and to support his ongoing work in the
long-term monitoring of environmental change dynamics in western
Africa.
Gareth Barkin
joined the faculty in the fall of 2005.
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Sarah
Goodrum was awarded a Stodghill
Research Professor leave of absence for fall 2007.
Sarah
Goodrum's Picture of the Week
20 Questions with Beau Weston
Beau Weston was
promoted to full professor, and was earlier named National Endowment
for the Humanities Associate Professor of Sociology. A story about his
blog, The Gruntled Center, is
here.
Sarah Goodrum's "Criminology" class is
reported as a student favorite
here.
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