In a new spring-term course, Dartmouth students will investigate questions of race, inequality, and violence that arose last summer following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The class, called “10 Weeks, 10+ Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” will be taught by close to 20 faculty from about a dozen departments and could be a model for future cross-disciplinary courses.
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Geography Department will offer a course this spring titled “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” examining structural violence against communities of color. The lessons in the pilot course will be split into 15 sections that span more than 10 academic departments, including — but not limited to — anthropology, history, women’s and gender studies, mathematics and English, according to The Dartmouth.
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At the center of her work is the question of health: what it is, who it's for, and who decides. Working in a rural, Zulu-speaking area of South Africa, Abby understands health as always simultaneously material and symbolic; that is, she sees health as the interplay between physiological processes (bacteria interacting with cells), cultural contexts (the views and values of the community in which a person lives), social networks (family and friends on the one hand and health care on the other), and political-economic structures. To understand health, she takes an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the work of geographers, anthropologists, historians, epidemiologists, and medical scientists.
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Jaclyn Hatala Matthes studies the duality of greenhouse gases during wetland restoration, their causes, effects, and potential solutions.
[more]Coleen Fox (along with Professors Nick Reo and Dale Turner) participated in a research project called 'Indigenous Confluence: The Role of Indigenous Peoples inRiver Stewardship & Sustainable Futures'.
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