Courses
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Fall 2023 CourseS
COURSES ARE IN PERSON, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. Info subject to change.
ANTH 70000: Colloquium: Current Topics in Anthropology [Hybrid/hyflex]
GC: F. 4:15-6:15 pm, 0 credits, Rm. 5417, Prof. Robotham. NOTE: Lecture schedule TBA
ANTH 70100: History of Anthropology 1
GC: T. 10:30am -1:30 pm, 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Kevin Birth
Required for all First-year GC Anthropology doctoral students; others may request instructor permission to add.
ANTH 70300: Foundations of Social Theory
GC: F. 10:30am-1:30 pm, 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Leo Coleman
Open to GC Level 1 Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology doctoral students only, OR by instructor’s permission.
ANTH 72000: Critical Climate Justice and Ethnographic Imaginaries
GC: TH. 11:45am-1:45pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Melissa Checker
Open to GC Anthropology doctoral students only. Cross-listed with EES.
ANTH 72600: New Ethnographic Writing
GC: W. 6:30-8:30pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Christa Salamandra
Fulfills area requirement for Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology subfields. Cross-listed with MES 72900, seats are limited.
ANTH 72700: The Art of Revolution in Mena
GC: M. 6:30-8:30pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA. Prof. Jonathan Shannon
Fulfills area requirement for Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology subfields. Cross-listed with MES 78000, seats are limited.
ANTH 74300: Pasts and Futures of South Asia
GC: W. 11:45am-1:45pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Murphy Halliburton
Fulfills area requirement for Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology subfields.
The region of South Asia includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and contains over one billion people, hundreds of languages and cultures, and thousands of years of history. This is an area of ancient cultures, philosophies, and religions as well as a region of modern nations contending with globalization, nationalism and the vicissitudes of late capitalism. A variety of classical, canonical and contemporary readings from and about South Asia will examine this region’s pasts and possible futures through engaging topics as varied as caste, biopolitics, science and nationalism.
ANTH 75300: Archaeology of Roman Egypt
GC: W. 9:30-11:30am, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Anna Boozer
ANTH 75400: Archaeology of Cultural Encounters
GC: T. 2:00-4:00pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Timothy Pugh
ANTH 77800: Sociolinguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication
GC: W. 2:00-4:00pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Matt Garley & Prof. Cece Cutler
Fulfills Linguistic Anthropology subfield requirement. This section open only to GC Anthro doctoral students; course is cross listed with LING 79600
This course examines recent quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistic research on language use, attitudes, ideologies, and practices in computer-mediated communication (CMC) with a special focus on Spanish language data. It explores research on topics such as multilingualism, creative orthography, script choice, language play, stance-taking, expressions identity and other topics across various CMC platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, online fora, blogs, microblogs, YouTube, SMS/texting, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The course will provide students with the chance to collect a small corpus of data and analyze it using sociolinguistic methods and frameworks.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an appreciation of emerging trends in the sociolinguistic study of language in computer mediated communication.
- Learn basic techniques for gathering a corpus of data from various online platforms (e.g. Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc.)
- Identify relevant units of analysis in the corpus and gain familiarity with a range of pertinent frameworks for analyzing the data.
- Identify implications of findings for the field of sociolinguistics and connect findings to larger social, economic, and political trends.
ANTH 78900: NYCEP Professional Development
GC: F. 2:00-4:00pm, 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Larissa Swedell
Open only to CUNY ANTHRO-NYCEP students, or by instructor permission.
ANTH 79000: Core Genetics & Human Bio
GC: F. 10:00am-1:00pm., 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Ryan Raaum
Open only to CUNY Anthro-NYCEP students, OR with instructor’s permission.
ANTH 79100: Paleoanthropology 1
ANMH: W. 1:30-4:30pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. William Harcourt-Smith
Open only to CUNY Anthro-NYCEP students, OR with instructor’s permission.
ANTH 80600: Anthropological Research
GC: W. 4:15-6:15pm, 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Julie Skurski
Open to GC Anthropology doctoral students engaged in 2nd Exam prep and/or research project development.
ANTH 80800 - Doctoral Dissertation Writing
GC: F. 11:45am-1:45 pm, 0 credits [audit], Rm. TBA, Prof. TBA
Open to Level 3 Anthropology doctoral students who are writing their dissertations; audit-only, repeatable.
ANTH 80900: The African Diaspora & Nation Formation in Latin America and the Caribbean
GC: M: 2:00-4:00pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Julie Skurski
Fulfills area requirement for Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology subfields. Cross-listed with AFCP and WSCP.
This seminar examines the social formation of Latin American nations from the perspective of the African diaspora. While over ten times as many enslaved Africans were brought to Spanish and Portuguese America as to the United States, the concept of Afro-Latin America and the study of the African diaspora’s presence in Latin American societies have only recently gained widespread attention. The emergence of scholarly work is related to the rise of Afro-descendant organizations and movements that have asserted claims to land, rights, and recognition as full citizens. These assertions are linked to the growing recognition of afro-descendant cultural practices-- including in the realms of music, the arts, and religion--as having national and transnational significance.
In this course we will draw on scholars who have problematized national ideologies of racial mixing and who have traced the erasures and inequalities that it has helped create. We will examine the colonial establishment of regimes of racial classification and control, the Haitian revolution, afro-descendant insurgencies in countries such as Cuba, the racialization of spaces and activities with the rise of modernization projects, and assertions of rights among afro-descendant peoples facing dispossession and repression in a range of countries, including the Afro-Pacific communities of Colombia, the Garifuna of Honduras, and social movements in Brazil. We will use ethnographic, visual, and musical materials, and will discuss Afro-descendant spiritual practices and cultural forms.
ANTH 81000: Life Histories, Self, and Other
GC: TH. 2:00-4:00pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Vincent Crapanzano
Cross-listed with Comp Lit 80100.
ANTH 81500: Politics of Abundance: Scarcity, Commoning, and Life-Affirming Counter-Politics
GC: W. 2:00-4:00pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Ida Susser
Cross-listed with WSCP.
ANTH 81600: Anthropology of the Image
GC: TH. 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Karen Strassler
ANTH 81800: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Capital
GC: M. 4:15pm-6:15pm, 3 credits, Rm. TBA, Profs. David Harvey and Donald Robotham
Cross listed with EES.
ANTH 82300: Proposal Writing Seminar
GC: F. 11:45am-1:45pm, 4 credits, Rm. TBA, Prof. Louise Lennihan
Open to GC Anthropology doctoral students only. Cultural & Linguistic Anthro subfields.