A Story of Us

Oct 08 2024 58 ep. 21 mins 7.4k
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An original podcast brought to you by the graduate students of the Department of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. Join us once as we explore the human experience! We are now a part of the Anthropology Public Outreach Program at The Ohio State University. Follow us @ohiostateAPOP

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A Story Of Us Katie Zejdlik October 1 2024

Oct 08 2024 24 mins  
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with Associate Clinical Professor Dr. Katie Zejdlik. They discuss the joys of reading fiction as a way to decompress, Dr. Zejdlik's work on mortuary contexts in Romania/Transylvania (https://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/medieval-cemetery-funerary-excavation-living-and-dying-on-the-edge-of-europe-transylvania-romania/) and her approach to te

Ben Mertus A Story of Us September 30 2024

Oct 03 2024 21 mins  
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with Ohio State PhD Candidate Ben Mertus. They discuss the article Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure (https://grangehallpress.com/Enbridgeblog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Beyond_Wiindigo_Infrastructure.pdf); the concept of ecotourism in anthropology; Ben's fieldwork in Manawan, Quebec; the concept of resilience in his research; the hidden costs of

Butch Wright A Story of Us September 16 2024

Sep 23 2024 19 mins  
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with Ohio State PhD Candidate Harold "Butch" Wright. They discuss readings on commensality (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/commensality-from-everyday-food-to-feast-9780857857361/), social network analysis (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Communities+and+Networks%3A+Using+Social+Network+Analysis+to+Rethink+Urban+and+Community+Studies-p-9780745654201)

Madee Green A Story of Us September 10 2024

Sep 15 2024 23 mins  
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with Ohio State PhD Candidate Madelyn (Madee) Green ([email protected]). They discuss research on isolation in islands, Madee's fieldwork in Japan with prehistoric Jomon populations, the Sannai Maruyama site (https://jomon-japan.jp/en/learn/jomon-sites/sannai-maruyama), and her teaching strategies.

Nicholas Passalacqua A Story of Us August 26 2024

Sep 03 2024 24 mins  
This episode Andrew Mitchel sits down with OSU Anthropology's newest hire in forensic anthropology, Dr. Nicholas Passalacqua. They discuss an article on the legal and social ramifications for wrongdoing (https://doi.org/10.2307/2564673), the definition of forensic anthropology, the process of completing a case analysis, a textbook project Dr. Passalacqua has worked on (https://titl

Maddison Elliott A Story Of Us April 10 2024

Apr 19 2024 20 mins  
In this interview, Andrew sits down with Maddison Elliott, who is graduating with her MA this semester in anthropology. They discuss The book Buzz (https://nyupress.org/9781479827381/buzz/), Maddison's MA thesis on pollinator protection, hierarchies of insects, roundtable method of teaching introductory anthropology courses, and the Wicked Science program at Ohio State (https://u.o

Craig Shapiro A Story Of Us December 14 2023

Dec 17 2023 31 mins  
In this interview, Andrew Mitchel chats with PhD candidate Craig Shapiro to discuss the insights from the text Polynesia, 900-1600 Past Imperfect by Madi Williams (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781641892148/polynesia-9001600/), the role and importance of epistemology and community archeology, Craig's ongoing fieldwork in Samoa, and conclude with considering the quandary of moving

Steven Rhue Interview November 28 2023

Nov 28 2023 38 mins  
In this interview, Andrew Mitchel chats with PhD candidate Steven Rhue to discuss the effects of household water insecurity on child health and well-being, a recently systematic review article on the topic by Steven and colleagues (https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1666), Steven's fieldwork on the subject with children ages 5-10 in Belém, Brazil, and Steven's

Jeffrey Peterson Interview October 6 2023

Oct 10 2023 23 mins  
In this interview, Andrew Mitchel sits down with our lecturer specializing in primatology, Dr. Jeffrey Peterson. They discuss multispecies ethnography, the foundations of primatology, Dr. Peterson's dissertation on Social Traditions and Social Networks among Long-Tailed Macaques in Indonesia (https://curate.nd.edu/show/bv73bz63b34), robbing and bartering among these same long-taile

Stephanie Cole Interview September 28 2023

Oct 02 2023 9 mins  
In this interview, Andrew Mitchel sits down with our new forensic anthropologist Dr. Stephanie Cole. They discuss forensic anthropology's methods and implications, Dr. Cole's PhD research on subadult sex estimation (https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/8364), the Morphological Pelvis and Skull Sex Estimation Database (https://www.morphopasse.com/program.html), the Ontogenetic