When I first approached this problem, I wanted to look at the field of Dental Anthropology, a sub-specialization of the many iterations of biological anthropology. I decided to look first at the common terms used in the abstracts and titles of the papers in dental anthropology to see if I could find any patterns. Looking […]
This past week we met with Dr. Melanie Hughes to consider the practical issues of data production, management, and analysis within the social sciences. One thing that struck me was that, despite our ability to identify issues in the categorization systems presented in class, many of us were unable to express solutions to mitigate these […]
The readings of the past two weeks have defined digital humanities and outlined the ways this field can uphold or challenge colonialism and sexism through careful contextualization of data (Risam 2018), collaborative stewardship (Christen 2018), and critical reflection on the histories of constructed categories of data (Aronova et al. 2017; Noble 2018; Radin 2017). In […]
Hi All! I am Alysha Lieurance a 2nd year PhD student in anthropology here at Pitt. I received a Masters in Anthropology from East Carolina University studying social inequality and urbanization at Petra, Jordan but have recently moved areas (and time periods) to Late Antique and Early Medieval Germany. I work at Straubing, a small […]