Governor Northam's stay-at-home order is more than an inconvenient imposition; it's an opportunity to care for your loved ones and the community as a whole. We as humans have been through this pandemic thing before. We’ve seen members of our immediate and global...
The yearbook image of two young men, one dressed in blackface and the other in KKK robes, is searing and ugly, reminding us of our relatively-recent and openly-racist past. That one of the young men is -- or even just could be -- Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam...
It was the Congolese people, and their struggle, that shaped the art of the Congo during the colonial period. And it is the context of these people and this struggle that is missing from the exhibit at the VMFA. In 1876, King Leopold II of Belgium founded a private...
When the 45th President of the United States says that it is a “very scary time for young men in America,” he is blatantly discounting the fact that it is always a very scary time for women - young and old - in America. I have more than 100 students in my anthropology...
Anthropology is the study of humans, and what it means to be human. Given its interweaving lenses, you cannot study humanity without inevitably diving into the interplay of biology and culture. Because being human is both: We are biological organisms and products of...