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This Program engages case studies drawn from different world areas to illuminate dimensions of cultural change and comparative features of vernacular modernities. A three-year seminar considers especially (a) the comparative and theoretical significance of contemporary notions of “progress,” including their relationship to and within the West; (b) different configurations of identity, worth, or success, and how these relate to cultural and economic development in different locales and different world areas; (c) the relation between area studies and international or global configurations of modernity; and (d) features of representation–academic, artistic, performative, and/or literary–that construct, resist, or otherwise engage local, regional, or historical dimensions of modernity. The Program examines how cultural economies engage and resist configurations of modernity in different world areas. Myth and Ritual in American Life ("MARIAL") MARIAL is a Sloan Center on Working Families that focuses its research on the functions and significance of ritual and myth in dual wage-earner middle-class families in the American South. The Center has four basic purposes: a) to promote scholarly studies of myth and ritual among working families in the Southeastern United States; b) to train the next generation of scholars to focus attention on American middle class families; c) to publicize its findings through scholarly channels and more broadly through the media; and d) to find ways to use the insights gained from its research to encourage and foster positive social change. Major areas of concentration include: ritual and cycles of life; food consumption and marketing; social and physical stress as mediated by ritual; mass media and representations of the family; mass media as a source of new and emerging forms of ritual and myth; and family narratives. Program in Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution The Program is designed to provide students with the formal training and experience necessary for careers in research and teaching. Students may enter careers in the health sciences, government or industry depending on the focus of the individual course of study and research. The areas of primary focus are: a) population biology and the evolution of disease; b) evolutionary ecology; c) molecular evolutionary biology; d) population biology and the evolution of microbes; and e) population biology and the evolution of the immune system. The Center Health, Culture, and Society runs an on-going faculty/graduate student seminar, which explores issues of public health importance from an interdisciplinary perspective. The seminar focuses on a single theme over the course of a semester and combines discussions of selected readings with presentations by outside speakers. Past Health and Society seminars have explored Emerging Illnesses and Communities of Suffering; Environmental Hazards, Activism and the Public Health; Institutional Responses to Emerging Infections; Health and Human Rights and The Ethics of HIV Prevention, Control and Treatment. The Laboratory is dedicated to a multi-level, comparative biocultural approach to understanding the human condition, the bases of our similarities and differences, and the pathways to and consequences of human diversity. It is concerned about these issues not solely for their scientific significance, but also because it is convinced that such an approach makes a distinctive, substantial contribution to the enterprise of explaining and alleviating differential well-being. Among its missions are: to probe cultural, behavioral, and biological bases of differential human well-being, and investigates the relationships among them as well as the use of biological measures in social science by offering advice and collaboration to non-laboratory based researchers. Its programs include: Human Development, Life History/Life Span, Reproductive Ecology, Behavioral Biology, Mental Health, and Immunology and Sleep. Joint Degree (MD/PhD) in Medicine and Anthropology The Joint Degree Program allows students to acquire both clinical and basic research training in order to pursue careers in academic medicine. Solving the mysteries of health and disease requires professionals trained in both the methods of basic biomedical science and the methods of clinical medicine. Recent advances in biomedical knowledge require new patterns of training for physician/scientists. To meet this challenge, the Emory M.D./Ph.D. Program combines the advantages of rigorous preparation in clinical medicine with interdisciplinary training in basic science. Center for Health, Culture, and Society The Center encourages interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to problems of public health importance. Since its inception, the Center has sought to create a common meeting ground for social and health scientists, humanists, and health professionals interested in exploring the interplay of health, culture, and society. In addition, the Center has striven to achieve a closer integration of academic scholarship and health intervention activities; to develop a global perspective on health that bridges the divide between domestic and international health issues; and to employ the insights gained from the Center's activities to develop innovative approaches to teaching, research, and health policy formation and implementation. Various programs include: the Antimicrobial Resistance Project, the History of Medicine Group, the Health and Society Seminar, and the Program for Advanced Research on Health and Society in Africa. Center for Behavioral Neuroscience The Center is a consortium of more than 80 researchers at eight Atlanta institutions examining the neural mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors. The social behaviors that are essential for species survival, such as fear, affiliation, aggression, and reproductive behaviors, are the next frontier for neuroscience. The research efforts are complemented by an educational program designed to integrate scientific progress into the curricula of students at all levels. The Center has developed many resources for educators and parents looking to teach children and teens about the brain. The aim of the educational plank of the center is to integrate research and education. This is a two-way process: getting research scientists to help in the education of students and getting students involved in research. Ad-Hoc Committee on Environmental Stewardship The Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Stewardship seeks to foster stewardship of University resources and to improve the environmental quality of life at Emory. A grassroots organization of students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni, the Ad Hoc Committee serves the current and future citizens of Emory through public education, environmental projects, and collaboration with other community groups. Among its missions are to: a) incorporate environmental concerns as a significant priority in university decision making; b) seek alternative practices and procedures to minimize negative impacts on the environment; c) conserve natural resources and restore environmental quality, d) protect the biodiversity of our region and serve as a living library and habitat for local species; and d) consider the social and economic impacts of Emory’s environmental policies and foster a participatory process in developing these policies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. Its mission includes: a) to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability, to protect health and safety, to provide credible information to enhance health decisions, and to promote health through strong partnerships. The Center for the Study of Public Scholarship The Center promotes and examines scholarly work that crosses the boundary between the academy and the public and is guided by the assumption that a great deal of academic scholarship has the potential to address and engage with a broad range of different communities. The Center explores the public nature of this scholarship and the diverse forms it can take. It brings together academic and community based scholars whose work exhibits the potential to relate to one another and provides a space where models can be developed for collaborative scholarship that connects knowledge produced inside and outside of academic institutions. During 2000-2004, the Center will host "Institutions of Public Culture," a collaborative program that links universities, museums, arts organizations and other cultural institutions in the United States and South Africa through fellowships, internships, workshops, and seminars
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John Kingston Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Bruce Knauft Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Melvin Konner Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Corinne Kratz Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Michelle Lampl Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Tracy Rone Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Bradd Shore Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Carol Worthman Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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