Shakespeare was wrong. When the Bard wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” he failed to foresee the difficulties geographers would have d...
At a remote valley in Chiapas, Mexico, archaeologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Santiago Juarez is studying a small, proto-Maya society. His findi...
“Ethnography often happens when you think you’re going to research one thing, but then find that’s not true and discover something else,” says Sally Bonet, ass...
Sociologist Carolyn Hsu rolls with the unexpected to humanize Chinese people working on the ground to confront social issues
In Carolyn Hsu’s experience...
Demographic research can shed a light on these daunting challenges and provide much-needed perspective on the traits as well as the tremendous risks and strengths of these vulnerable populations.
We’ve become a world of city dwellers. At the turn of the 20th century, only 13 percent of people around the world lived in cities — now 55 percent do.
The U.S. government’s H-1B visa program allows highly skilled foreign citizens to work in the United States for a temporary amount of time. Each year, more tha...
