Emma Schwartz ’24, Naren Roy ’23, and Alexa Horkava ’22 are working with the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo’s digital archives via a CPGC-sponsored fellowship in the Haverford library this summer.
Anthropology major Jasmine Reed '22 delved into the archives as a research assistant for the BlackQuakerProject with renowned scholar Harold D. Weaver '56 (left).
On May 21, 2021 senior anthropology majors presented their theses on Zoom and afterwards met on campus to celebrate their accomplishments! Left to right: Emma Glazer, Jessica Lopez, Frances Condon, Assistant Professor and Director of Health Studies Anna West, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Zainab Saleh, Associate Professor of Anthropology Zolani Ngwane, Robbie Spratt, Nicole Haas-Loomis, Saede Eifrig and Valentina Zavala-Arbelaez.
How do people formulate ideas of what is natural and what is cultural? How do desires and values get made? How do ideas of difference—particularly in terms of race, gender, sex, class, language, and culture—become frames for collective identity, debate, and power? What are the ways that humans organize for political action and express shared beliefs and values?
Our students use these and other questions central to the discipline as a basis for designing and conducting their own qualitative field-based and archival research projects.