VandyAnthro Podcast

Ted Fisher talks about his path to Anthropology and how the discipline can affect change. Our first faculty guest talks about anthropology from the inside. Episode Transcript

Miguel nos cuenta como fue mudarse a Nashville y su experiencia como estudiante internacional en un lugar nuevo, cómo se acostumbró a Nashville y cómo encontró una comunidad con sus compañeros de promoción en Antropología y con las personas del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Vanderbilt CLAS.

Miguel Cuj, awarded Guatemalan graduate student talked to us about how he got into Anthropology trough working with Maya women in nutritional issues and how he approaches nutrition from a language point of view. Miguel's paper “Maya K’iche’ Food Groups and Its implications for Guatemalan Food Guidelines” has been recently accepted for publication at the Food and Nutrition Bulletine. Click here if you want to know more about Miguel work as a Anthropology Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt...

Following our second episode in our food arc, Alex Korsunsky talks about how he is work with farmers in Oregon and how he is following his research back to the place he calls home. Here is the link to one of the groups Alex work with: Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste

Keitlyn Alcantara talks about her passion for food on her research, her work with the community, and how food connects us with our identity. You can find Keitlyn on the internet at https://keitlynalcantara.com/ and her project Sazon Nashville at https://sazonnashville.com/ And her social media channels: https://twitter.com/a_keitlyn https://twitter.com/sazonnashville https://www.instagram.com/sazonnashville/ Of course, the Comfort Rebelion Cookbooklink is here: ...

A podcast where we have a conversation about what we do and what we want to do. What is like to be an anthropologist, to work with different communities and to learn from them and with them. Here we open about how we discover that passion for what we do and the things that make us happy about our work and the challenges that we face. Take a break and join us.