Annual Anthropology Student Research Conference

On Friday, October 17th the department will host the Annual Anthropology Student Research Conference. It will be from 2- 5pm in 1957 E St NW, room 215 and will be followed by a reception.

12 students who received awards from the Lewis N. Cotlow Fund will present their research findings.

The topics that will be presented on are:

• Metro Area Midwives: A Study of Midwifery in the Washington DC Area - Kimberly Cotterman
• The Historical Present: Identity's role in the Shifting Development of U-Street - Adam Steven Chamy
  
• The Aesthetic of Urbanism: Pottery Chronologies of the Mixteca Alta - Kiernan McGowan
  
• Metaphors of the Vocal Instrument: Embodied Language of Opera - Lauren E. Deal
  
• Landscaping the Mind: The Exploration of Fictional Landscape in Shaoxing, China. - Chenkai Zhu
• Hair Traditions Among Female Young Adult Samoans in Maraetai, New Zealand - Laura Myford
• The Maya Women of Kaqla. Negotiation of gender and ethnic identity in Guatemala. - Alejandra Hurtado de Mendoza
• "Just because you don't have papers, doesn't mean you won't get sick": Health Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC - Claire Selsky
• "Eat Sweets and Talk Sweet:Hospitality and Commensality in Urban Middle-Class Turkey" - Heather Y. Hwalek
• HOLISTIC HEALING: A Glance at the Perceptions of Illness and Health in
  Urban Peru - Carla Blauvelt
• Baboons behaviour, hair and hormones - Nicholas Fourie
• Are capuchins good models for the "grandmother" hypothesis?: What socio-spatial behavior of females with dependent infants can tell us." - Ashley Stinespring

For more on the conference please visit http://www.gwu.edu/~anth/atgw/cotlow_conference_2008.cfm

For more on the Cotlow Fund please http://www.gwu.edu/~anth/atgw/cotlow.cfm