Sociology and Anthropology

Professor with Students in the Forbidden City

Collecting Soil Samples in Labrador

Dancing the Morenada, Cusco, Peru

Professor and Students At the Gong Palace

Student Poster at American Anthropological Association Meeting

Department News

• Good Fortune: Beth Kowitt '07 Writes Cover Story Going Inside Secretive Trader Joe's, Discusses on NPR
• Faculty Spotlight:A Pipeline Runs Through it: Central Africa's Big Dig
• Talking Bodies: Sociologist Studies Art's Role in Health Movements
• MacEachern's Course Videotaped for Worldwide Audience
• "Time Scales," Convocation Address by Professor Scott MacEachern

Faculty/Student Awards and Fellowships

• Dhiraj Murthy was awarded a three-year NSF Grant to study social networking cyberinfrastructure in virtual breeding grounds. (Award #1025428)
• Elaine Tsai '10, Kat Flaherty '11, Prof. Craig McEwen Receive Campus Compact Awards
• Two Bowdoin Students Awarded Watson Fellowships
• Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects

Student Research

• Bowdoin Archaeology Student Digging the Maine Coast
• Research Takes Student Into Fine Points of Tatooing
• Mike Brennan '04 Blogs Live From Deep Sea Research in Turkey
• Learning What Lobstermen (and Lobsters) Know About Climate Change
• Simon Explores Impact of Retraining After Mill Closure

Recent Faculty Books

• Scott MacEachern, 2010: Kome-Cribi: Rescue Archaeology Along the Chad-Camerron Oil Pipeline, 199-2004
• Susan Bell, DES Daughters 
• Krista Van Vleet,Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes