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CRACIA - Weekly Virtual Meeting Series - Summer 2020
Weekly Virtual Meeting Series - Summer 2020 During the summer of 2020 CRACIA will hold weekly meetings every Tuesday 3:00-5:00. Meetings will consist of a presentation or a round-table discussion on a topic of anyone's choosing. For more information, and to receive email updates for weekly topics, please contact cracia.info (at) gmail.com.
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Dr. Andrea Lopez Published in Medical Anthropology
Dr. Andrea Lopez published an article titled, “Necropolitics in the “Compassionate” City: Care/Brutality in San Francisco” in the journal Medical Anthropology. In this article, Dr.
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Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy Published in Anthropology News
Drs. Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Adia Benton published the article, “Imagining Rural Immunity” in Anthropology News. The article focuses on how the public health infrastructure in rural regions is potentially the most fragile aspect of the rural health care continuum.
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#UMDSolidarity Events
"The University of Maryland community must be even more committed to our mission of building a supportive, respectful and inclusive environment. Words aren’t enough. We have to act! We must learn to be anti-racist in the face of racism whenever and wherever it occurs.
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Student & Alumni Profiles
Zena Dhatt, BS' 18
I graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in December 2018 where I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology with concentrations in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, as well as a Certificate in Latin American Studies.
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Rodolfo Tello, MAA '07
Rodolfo Tello is an applied anthropologist with extensive experience in the field of international development.
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Alexandra Marquez, BA '21
The United States recently witnessed the third presidential impeachment proceedings in history. BSOS student Alexandra Marquez had a front row seat for the action.
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Hilary Sandborn, BS '21
"It’s a small field that nobody knows about, and there’s so much potential...
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William Wical, PhD Student
William Wical is a doctoral student in Anthropology with a research concentration in health. His research seeks to understand the presentation of traumatic stress disorders as products of historical, social, and cultural factors.
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Elena Sesma, BA '11
Dr. Elena Sesma is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. She graduated from the University of Maryland College Park in 2011, with a BA in Anthropology and Women’s Studies. She holds an MA in Anthropology and earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2019.
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