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Skocpol was appointed dean two decades later after anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the position over disagreements with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year.After Summers’ January 2005 remarks about the innate differences between men and women in the sciences, Skocpol emerged as one of his most outspoken critics. Five months later, Skocpol was named to the top post at the graduate school, replacing anthropologist Peter T. Ellison, who resigned after persistent disputes with Summers. Skocpol is only the second woman to lead GSAS. Interim University President Derek C. Bok praised Skocpol’s work over the past two years.“Again and again, she has gone beyond the strict requirements...
Decades before a white-faced Ziyi Zhang performed her electric dances in Hollywood's Memoirs of a Geisha-and years before the Arthur Golden novel of the same name ushered millions worldwide into the private corners of Kyoto's geisha quarter-an anthropologist from Stanford traveled to Japan's ancient capital to become the first foreigner to live and work along its narrow streets as a full-time geisha. Liza Dalby's experiences inspired several books, including her memorable and elegant Geisha, published in 1983, a book on kimono and a novel about Japan's first novelist, Lady Murasaki...
...active role in training these employees. Kleinman said Farmer’s commitment to combining medicine and public service predated his professional work. “When Paul was a sophomore at Duke, he wrote to me and basically said, ‘I want to be a medical anthropologist like you,’” said Kleinman, adding that Farmer was a “serious correspondent.” “I have a real sense with Paul of passing the torch, only that torch has burned brighter in his hands than it did mine...
...what if there is no epidemic? What if the apparent explosion in autism numbers is simply the unforeseen result of shifting definitions, policy changes and increased awareness among parents, educators and doctors? That's what George Washington University anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker persuasively argues in a new book sure to generate controversy. In Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, Grinker uses the lens of anthropology to show how shifting cultural conditions change the way medical scientists do their work and how we perceive mental health...