Faculty Highlights

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  Oware Interviewed

  Matthew Oware, professor of sociology, was recently interviewed on the Radikaal Podcast to discuss politics and rap music. Listen to the interview here.

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  Sweis Awarded

  Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology and global studies, was awarded the 2020 SERMEISS Academic Article or Book Chapter Prize in recognition of outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern Studies for her article “Doctors with Borders: Hierarchies of Humanitarians and the Syrian Civil War.”

• Husain Published

  Atiya Husain, assistant professor of sociology, published “Deracialization, Dissent, and Terrorism in the FBI’s Most Wanted Program” in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

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  Sweis Published

  Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology and global studies, published “Hospital Warzones: What Syrian and US Health Workers Now Share” in The Global Post.

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  Richards Interviewed

  Bedelia Nicola Richards was interviewed on the No Jargon podcast of the Scholar Strategy Network on "Creating Inclusive Campuses".

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  Sweis Published

  Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, published DOCTORS WITH BORDERS: HIERARCHIES OF HUMANITARIANS AND THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR in the International Journal of Middle East Studies. 

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  UR Community Dives into Book about Flint Water Crisis This Summer

  Dr. Rania Sweis discusses her plans to use What the Eyes Don’t See in the classroom in the spring.

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  Richards Published Dr. Bedelia Richards published a chapter entitled 'Faculty Assessments as Tools of Oppression: A Black Woman's Reflections on (Colorblind) Racism in the Academy'.
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  Jan French inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa

  Dr. Jan French has been inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. The award recognizes her excellence in teaching and contributions to anthropology in developing future leaders.

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  Global Health

  Rania Kassab Sweis is an anthropologist whose ethnographic research traces the long term social effects of international aid and global health interventions with vulnerable populations. She can also speak to the ways in which young people in vulnerable populations consume, negotiate, and reconstitute global health care in specific ways.