Governing health explores the vital relationship between governance and health. The class interrogates how the stratification and management of populations are linked with the diagnoses, categories, and inequities that make up our contemporary health landscape. We will explore how the concept of governance troubles our understandings of key concepts in medical anthropology like care, inequality, and the state. Moving from the level of the population to the individual body, from state institutions to the four walls of the clinic, this course traces governance as it generates and degenerates health.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ziv, Tali R
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): CES-RI, CES-TI, CES-PD

The household appears as commonsensical to us. It is where people, most often those of a family, reside together, sharing its resources, labor and collective fate. However, anthropologists have been arguing against this commonsense since it emerged in the 1950s. Yet the household is back again in current policy discussions as being most vulnerable to the problems associated with temperature extremes, food insecurity, exacerbated disease, enhanced competition and political violence. How might anthropological debates and controversies relating to households and householding as an activity within the context of war, famine and migration, provide important insights into today’s urgencies?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will consist of close reading of anthropological and philosophical texts to trace some important aspects of the underlying presuppositions of social theory. We will try to see how regions generate both data and theory; and also see how some abiding concerns around the relation between structural formations and formations of subjects are expressed in classical and current anthropological thought.

• Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate students are encouraged to register for the departmental research colloquium in anthropology. The colloquium meets most (but not all) Tuesday afternoons during the semester.

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

How does the idea of a form of life as the mutual absorption of the social and the natural inform anthropological conceptions of the human? Taking the status of the example in both Wittgenstein and Austin, and how it bears on conceptual innovation, this course offers a reading of primary texts from philosophy and anthropology on these issues. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission from the instructor.

• Days/Times: F 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Das, Veena
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is open to anthropology graduate students only and is to be run on a workshop model. It is to help those students writing their regional essay for the comprehensive exams to acquire expertise in regional debates and literature relevant to their field research. Our understanding of regions is one of cross-cutting concepts and questions rather than geographical framings alone. After identifying a concept or question, each student will create an annotated bibliography, trace the shape of arguments as they emerge within the readings, create an outline and work toward a draft of the final essay.

• Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda; Mohamed, Sabine
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/6
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Das, Veena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Poole, Debbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Das, Veena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An intensive research seminar for graduate students currently conducting research on theories, methodologies, and histories of inter-Asian movements and networks. Instructor permission required.

• Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Han, Clara; Kim, Yumi
• Room: Gilman 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. This semester-long workshop will introduce graduate students to the basics of writing for such broad audience. Each session will be organized around particular topics in public humanities writing, including the pitching, writing, editing, and publishing processes of newspapers, magazines, and online outlets. We will also consider the forms of writing that most allow scholars to draw from their academic training and research: reviews, personal essays, op-eds, interviews, and profiles. Throughout the course we will see how the interdisciplinarity, comparativism, and multilingualism of fields from across the humanities can be helpful for reaching wide audiences. Beyond the nuts and bolts of getting started in so-called “public” writing, this course aspires to teach graduate students how to combine quality writing with academic knowledge, scholarly analysis with a general intellectual readership—and, ultimately, make academic knowledge a public good. Taught in English.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Seguin, Becquer D
• Room: Gilman 490
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

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• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Das, Veena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer Research for doctoral students

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• Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The seminar will offer a forum for students to reflect on preliminary field research and think further about problems of ethnographic method. We will proceed in the manner of a workshop for ongoing projects. Open to anthropology graduate students only.

• Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/4
• PosTag(s): n/a

What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. For example, how do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? How can we resolve disparate forms of violence such as that of language, environment, and that of the body? What does an anthropological and ethnographic engagement with violence involve? In this course, we will read and discuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about violence and race, and examine the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to violence.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The seminar will offer a forum for students to discuss research projects, prepare grant proposals and think further about issues of ethnographic methodology and writing. Open to Anthropology graduate students only.

• Days/Times: M 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This class is an occasion for speculative anthropology, a chance to reimagine this place (an American city on the Jones Falls river) in a future beyond the bustle of our fossil-fueled present. What culture might people of that distant time produce, and how might they make creative use of the many things we leave behind? In this class, we will work together as anthropologists and artists of another time, crafting an inventive and collaborative story about a culture to come, and the material artifacts of a very different collective life. The class will be co-taught by anthropologist Anand Pandian and visual artist Jordan Tierney. We will nurture our imaginations through experiential practices of observing nature, collecting materials, and assembling artifacts. What we build will serve as the core of a spring 2025 local museum exhibition we will plan together.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR

Readings in Anthropology is a required course for first year graduate students. However, this course does not present a stable canon of anthropology, nor does it assume that anthropological knowledge is delimited by national boundaries. This course is designed for students to engage the crosscurrents in disciplines and thinking that underlie anthropological knowledge. It will introduce so-called canonical works in order to engage in close and critical reading of these texts. In this course, we will look closely at conceptions and descriptions of kinship in light of a history of anthropological knowledge marked by colonial power and authority. How are certain forms of relating made to disappear within the anthropological archive? How do we read such texts to elucidate the traces of lives in the recesses of the text? How has new kinship literatures repositioned the study of family and kinship relations. This course will take us through classic anthropological thought in social anthropology and biological anthropology, as well as historical studies of kinship.

• Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Han, Clara; Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Clara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandian, anand
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An interdisciplinary seminar on Latin America’s role in wider cultural, economic, and political processes, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. In Fall 2024 we will take up the themes of aesthetics, epistemic pluralism, and the question of reality.

• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro; Nogueira, Marcelo
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a