The Department of Anthropology hosts brown bag lunch sessions on scheduled Wednesdays each semester. All talks are free of charge and open to the public.

Dr. Sarah C. Sherwood is an associate professor and co-chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Systems and the University Archaeologist at Sewanee, The University of the South. She is an anthropological archaeologist with a specialty in geoarchaeology. On the Southern Cumberland Plateau, she is specifically interested in prehistoric land use change over time and site formation processes of sandstone rockshelters.

Celeste Montoya is a member of the Department of Women & Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research primarily focuses on the ways in which women and racial minorities mobilize to enact change. She is interested in how these groups work within and outside of political institutions, domestically and transnationally and intersectionally.

Janet R. Jakobsen is chair and Claire Tow Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her current book project, “Why Sex?: Religion, Secularism and Possibilities for Justice,” is forthcoming from New York University Press.

This event celebrates all research, scholarship, and creative endeavors - funded and unfunded - of Appalachian Faculty and Staff. During the event, faculty and staff will present posters, digital presentations, oral presentations, art, and/or performances.

The 3MT is an international competition for graduate students to explain their research or scholarly/creative projects in standard non-disciplinary English to a general audience (the public) in 3 minutes with the help of only one static PowerPoint slide.

Dr. Erich Jarvis is a neurobiologist of vocal communication and professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Using innovative research techniques that often defy convention, he demonstrates what songbirds can reveal about the evolution of human language and learned behavior.

Dr. Erich Jarvis is a neurobiologist of vocal communication and professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. Using innovative research techniques that often defy convention, he demonstrates what songbirds can reveal about the evolution of human language and learned behavior.

Dr. Bro will discuss her work with the Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Chile, where she studied the social dimensions of wildfire risk and developed a conceptual framework of the socio-ecological system that governs wildfires.

The Department of Anthropology hosts brown bag lunch sessions on scheduled Wednesdays each semester. All talks are free of charge and open to the public.

The Department of Anthropology hosts brown bag lunch sessions on scheduled Wednesdays each semester. All talks are free of charge and open to the public.

Dr. Kim Hall is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and an affiliate faculty of gender, women’s and sexuality studies. Her research interests include Her areas of research interests include feminist theory, disability studies, continental philosophy, queer theory, critical race theory, ethics and environmental philosophy.

Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations is an exhibition and book project reexamining John James Audubon’s epic life journey and the production of his beloved tome, The Birds of America. The exhibition features contemporary photographs made by Krista Elrick of the American landscapes in which Audubon traveled 200 years ago and includes quotes from Audubon’s journals and entries Elrick made in her own travel notebooks two centuries later.