March 2023: Herd health

Collaborative anthropology

Jen Shannon, a Curator and Associate Professor, practices collaborative anthropology. The demands, activism, and participation of Indigenous peoples have shaped her practice and moved collaborative anthropology to the center of our discipline in North America. Collaborative anthropology is not only with and for Indigenous peoples, but they have been vital in shaping its development and prominence in the field. It can be practiced anywhere with anyone. Collaborative anthropology, and shared authority, often means her research takes unexpected turns-- resulting in her working on things she would never have anticipated... like leading video workshops, co-authoring comic books, and hosting a podcast!

Herd mentality: Understanding movement between countries

Fernando Riosmena is an Associate Professor at the Population Program and the Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Institute of Behavioral Science. His research aims at improving understanding of the theories, drivers, empirical measurement, and analytical strategies to analyze spatial mobility, with a particular focus on the social, economic, policy, and environmental factors likely influencing international migration between Mexico and the United States.

Culture and diseases of the early American West

Professor Elizabeth Fenn studies the early American West, focusing on epidemic disease, Native American, and environmental history.

Africa American history: Finding strength in knowing the past

Professor Lawrence-Sanders teaches courses in U.S. history, African American history, and African American women's history with particular focus on American Civil War memory, Black cultural history, Black radicalism, and collective memory in the United States.

Empowering the Latinx community

Professor Natalie Mendoza specializes in Mexican American and Chicanx history, U.S. Latinx history, U.S. civil rights history, and the history of race and racism in the United States.

Herd Health

Kathryn Goldfarb is a cultural and medical anthropologist. Her research focuses on the ways social relationships impact embodied experience, intersections between public policy and well-being, and the co-production of scientific knowledge and subjective experiences, including narrative creation.

Let's talk social!

Tiffany Ito is the director of the Social Neuroscience Lab. Her research addresses social psychological issues using a multi-level approach that integrates social psychological and neuroscience perspectives. 

Social Neuro Science Lab studies social processes. The lab's research integrates theories and methods from social psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience to study issues related to stereotyping, prejudice, person perception, drug addiction, and recovery from traumatic brain injury.

Get involved!

In 2017, Ito spoke with the Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine on the topic of creating a sense of belonging for women in physics. Learn more.

Power in groups

David Cook-Martín works as a political sociologist who focuses on understanding migration, race, ethnicity, law, and citizenship in an international field of power.