The Wake Forest University Department of Anthropology promotes understanding and appreciation of human cultural and biological diversity. Through academic courses, scholarly and applied research, and public service, the Department of Anthropology provides the Wake Forest community with the tools and knowledge necessary for global citizenship. Composed of scholars representing all sub-fields of anthropology, the Department of Anthropology serves as the premier academic and practical resource for multicultural awareness and education in the University and Winston-Salem communities, enhancing the University’s commitment to Pro Humanitate.
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Department of Anthropology News
- Dr. Paul Thacker Awarded 2025 URECA Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentored Scholarship
- Is America in Housing Crisis? Interview with Dr. Sherri Clark.
- Vibrating Together: Egyptian Belly Dance & Community in a Socially-Mediated World – Dr. Meg Morley – Lam Museum March 19th – 6pm
- Former WFU Anthropology Professor/Chair David Weaver Passes Away
- Annie Choi – former ANT Major – published article – How parent stress and COVID-19 impact on the family are associated with parental pressure to eat during COVID-19
Anthropology in the National Press
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In a recent article, Wake Forest’s Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist and the Lam Family Endowed Faculty Fellow in Anthropology, weighed in on the housing situation in California. The housing laws are, in part, designed to promote units that are affordable – generally defined as costing no more than 30% of a family’s income. They move California in the right direction, said Lawson Clark, who studies housing and poverty. If California – where midtier homes cost more than twice the nationwide average – can narrow the affordability gap with an influx of new housing, then it could “perhaps be a blueprint for other states and localities,” she said.
Read the full story in The Christian Science Monitor:
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