In this podcast, students from the Undergraduate Anthropology Club at Ohio State interview Dr. Lee Hoffer. Dr. Hoffer is a medical anthropologist and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. In the interview, Dr. Hoffer discusses what led him to a career in medical anthropology, how he began to study the opioid crisis, and what can be done to better address illegal drug use in the United States today.

Interview with Dr. Lee Hoffer about the anthropology of the opioid crisis

In this podcast, Luke Fannin from the Undergraduate Anthropology Club at Ohio State interviews Dr. Nicholas Conard, an archaeologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany. In the interview, Dr. Conard discusses what drove his early interest in archaeology, how he began to study the relations between modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how his discoveries of early human symbolic culture - including some of the earliest examples of figurative sculpture and musical instruments - can tell us about the development of our species.

Interview with Dr. Nicholas Conard on the birth of human symbolic culture

In this conservation, members of the Ohio State Undergraduate Anthropology Club talk to Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas (Asst. Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at OSU) about her new book "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2009).

OSU Undergraduate Anthropology Club

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