That Anthro Podcast

Join me in welcoming Pippa Kenner! An anthropologist who has spent her career working in Alaska with native communities and the federal government. She has great stories and advice to share about ethnographic research, the realities of working in Alaska, and how she got started working with the federal government. Enjoy!

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Megan Carney, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona to the podcast! She also received here graduate degree at UC Santa Barbara! Dr. Carney is a sociocultural anthropologist who works with migrant communities conducting ethnographic research on food insecurity as well as the social dynamics of displacement and migration. A lot of her early work, that...

Welcome to the podcast, Katie Seeber! Katie is an archaeologist who focuses on community and heritage archaeology, with her most recent project and dissertation focusing on the Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, the first town of freed slaves. Katie also breaks down her experiences with CRM Archaeology, as well as questioning why indigenous voices and presence was absent on certain projects she w...

Welcome back listeners to Season 2 Episode 1 of That Anthro Podcast. On this episode Dr. Maddy McAllister, a maritime archaeologist in Australia, gives us a glimpse into her job, researching shipwrecks!  Maddy breaks down what maritime archaeologists study, what types of tools and historical documents they use, as well as correcting some common misconceptions about excavating underwater. Grow...

In this episode, host of That Anthro Podcast Gabriella Campbell reflects on one year of creating the podcast, and more generally her journey in Anthropology. Friend and colleague, Noah Hayes, takes over the interviewer role to ask the questions. Learn about how I got interested in Anthropology, what the real first episode of the podcast was, my favorite thing about being a podcaster, my future aca...

Welcome Sarah Alami Gouraftei, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara in the Integrative Anthropological Sciences Laboratory (IAS). Sarah grew up in Morocco, and reflects on the social inequalities that were very apparent to her in Casablanca. She says she really saw the harm social injustices can do which ultimately is what really sparked her interests in behavior, the origins of human sociality and...

Find more info on Dr. Riel-Salvatore and his work here:  https://anthropo.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/professeurs/professeur/in/in19299/sg/Julien%20Riel-Salvatore/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julien-Riel-Salvatore Follow @thatanthropodcast on Instagram, and @ThatAnthroPod on Twitter for more behind the scenes content. Brought to you in collaboration with the American Anthropo...

Welcome Professor of Archaeology at Moorpark College, Dr. Andrew Kinkella! To start off our discussion we go back to Dr. Kinkella’s undergraduate days at UC Santa Barbara, and how it guided his journey in Anthropology. Hear about his Intro to Archaeology teacher, Professor Brian Fegan, and how his captivating teaching style inspired Kinkella to want to do the same thing in his teaching. We emphasi...

Alicia Boswell is an Assistant Professor in UC Santa Barbara’s History of Art and Architecture department, and focuses her research (and teaching) around themes of ancient Andean Archaeology, conservation, cultural heritage, craft production, cultural landscapes and much more that we will discuss in today’s episode. Since she began her journey as an undergraduate Peru has been an important area of...

This episode with Adam Gamwell is jam packed with great conversations, stories about serendipitous timing and pertinent advice for anyone looking for new, creative ways to apply their anthropological knowledge more broadly. Adam tells about his graduate school experiences at Brandies, and how traveling to Peru as a graduate student ended up shaping his research to focus on quinoa. He also discusse...

This week I sat down to talk to Biological Anthropology graduate student Dana Al-Hindi, a member of Brenna Henn's laboratory at UC Davis (http://hennlab.ucdavis.edu/), who is looking at human phenotypic variation in hunter-gather populations in Africa. Her research primarily focuses on identifying the genetic architecture of skin pigmentation within the Khoe-San using a genome-wide association app...

Join me in welcoming Dr. Srimati Basu (President elect of the Association of Feminist Anthropology) and Dr. Michelle Ramirez (Active member of the Association of Feminist Anthropology) who are both accomplished researchers in the field of cultural anthropology and gender studies. Listen to us talk about the women who inspire us, their work in feminism, how we can adapt our language to be more incl...

This week I interview husband and wife writing duo, Dr. Lesley Newson and Dr. Peter Richerson, on their careers and their newest joint book, A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution. We discuss how they met and decided to write the book in a style that targets a multi-level audience, not just other academics, and why they chose to tell the story of human evolution in a new way. Dr. Richerson f...

Today Dr. Jennifer Miller from the Max Planck Institute joins us today to talk about her work investigating research questions in Stone Age Africa, focusing on Ostrich eggshell beads (OES). Her PhD focused on these beads and their symbolic and cultural meanings, while also looking more broadly at multiple sites to see if there was any regional change or change throughout time. OES beads have been...

Welcome Anthropologist and teacher at Wheaton College, Dr. Gabriela Torres! Check out her books below! "Sexual Violence in Intimacy" volume:  https://www.routledge.com/Sexual-Violence-in-Intimacy-Implications-for-Research-and-Policy-in-Global/Torres-Yllo/p/book/9780367338121 Marital Rape volume:  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marital-rape-9780190238360?cc=us&lang=en& Fo...

Dr. Michele Koons comes on the podcast today to talk all about her career and path to becoming the Archaeology Curator at The Denver Museum of Nature and Science (https://www.dmns.org/). She explains how her love and passion for ancient peoples and artifacts developed during college, and discusses some of the great opportunities she had to explore her interests throughout her education. She then d...

Welcome to another episode of That Anthro Podcast, where we dive into all things anthropology. This episode was just as much of a treat to record as it is to listen to, Dr. Layla Brown is a captivating scholar, storyteller, and professor. Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at U Mass Boston, but holds a Phd in Cultural Anthropology, and commonly works and teaches on the subject...

This is my version of a love letter to Anthropology for World Anthroday 2021, where I interview several guests asking them why they love anthropology and what has been the most impactful experience for them during their careers. Check out the many other schools, podcasts, and clubs celebrating Anthroday at the American Association of Anthropologists website https://www.americananthro.org/Participa...

Welcome to a very special episode of That Anthro Podcast where I interview another Anthropology podcaster, Sarah Duignan of Anthrodish! Check out her podcast here, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthrodish/id1405790655. We talk all things podcasting, graduate school, women in science, how we see the future of the field going and more! Follow @thatanthropodcast on Instagram, and @ThatAnthroP...

Dr. John Johnson, a UCSB alumni, curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Natural History, and adjunct Professor of Anthropology at UCSB, joins us on the podcast today. He has been working and researching on California Archaeology and California Native Americans for over 45 years, and has been a curator at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum for the duration of those years. He has worked...

UCSB Associate Professor Dr. David Lawson joins us on the podcast to introduce his work in behavioral ecology, evolutionary approaches to human behavioral diversity, and anthropological contributions to global health. We also discuss his childhood in Northern Ireland, and how he stumbled into a biology degree at University College London, and then found a love for Anthropology. We compare and cont...

Welcome Matt Artz, a business anthropologist, podcaster, founder of 2 anthropology consulting companies, and an overall fascinating guest. We dive into the field of user experience, his experience doing a Tedx talk, the importance of publicly disseminating our work as anthropologists, and his new podcasts he is launching this January. We also discuss his masters thesis, and subject of his Tedx tal...

Toni Gonzalez walks us through her journey to finding archaeology at Pasadena Community College, and how her background in art and art history really set the stage for the way she would go onto study Maya material culture. She also expresses how having family roots in Latin America guided her to conduct her research in Mesoamerica. Her work primarily is in underground or cave spaces, and she gives...

Today we dive into the life and research of the lovely Mallory Melton, UCSB PhD candidate. We discuss her road to anthropology, how she overcame certain barriers with the help and support of many mentors. She has distinguished herself in her academic studies, with a string of publications, workshops, guest lectures, honors, awards for being an outstanding TA, and many conference presentations. Her...

Welcome to this week's episode with fellow Anthropology undergraduate at UCSB, Nina Wilson. She is one of my classmates who presented a wonderful presentation to our class on sex and gender in osteology, where she discussed some of the outdated terms and issues are in forensic and bioarchaeological research that exclude or ignore the existence of transgender and intersex individuals in the populat...