Hamline Anthropology

03/31/2026

03/17/2026

This summer the Hamline Anthropology program is piloting a summer camp for youth going into 5th-8th grades—AnthroCamp! If you or someone you know is looking for something fun and educational for your kids to do, you might check it out. August 3-7. 9:00am-4:00pm.

There is a link to a Hamline news item in the comments. If you have questions, feel free to DM us here!

10/09/2025

Come see great students from our environments, justice, and well-being course tonight!

Hamline is hosting its second annual Night Festival tonight, to celebrate all the ways or community cares about night (including our campus plan to reduce light pollution) -- if you're near the Hamline Midway neighborhood between 6:30 and 9:00, please stop by! (It might be too cloudy for telescopes, but we will still have awesome interactive learning and snacks)

08/23/2021

Awesome new feature about Hamline’s archaeological work.

A Hamline University professor and his students routinely tear up the campus lawn to excavate the remnants of a house that once stood there and learn about the people who occupied it.

03/23/2021

01/12/2021

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of COVID is the ability to attend a variety of international lectures. Professor Sumera will be attending this one, and it looks like it may be of interest to students interested in both sociocultural and linguistic anthropology.

"Listening to love: Aural attention, vocal iconicity and
intimacy in Somaliland"

Dr. Christina Woolner (Cambridge University)
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 (3-5pm GMT) (9-10am CST)

Zoom link
https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99261378342?pwd=TWowY1V6cnF5amZsLzJTcmVLcXl5UT09

Meeting ID: 992 6137 8342
Passcode: SMusic2021

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11/19/2020

Students in Intro to Anthropology dig deeply into the end-of-the-semester ethnography in their remote learning class. The book, _Picking Up_ by Robin Nagle is the perfect book to read for examples of the many discussions of anthropology we have had this semester!

10/28/2020

10/19/2020

Professor Sumera coedited a special issue of Ethnomusicology Forum titled "Affect Theory: Ethnomusicological Interventions."

The special issue includes a co-authored introduction, "Interpretation, Resonance, Embodiment: Affect Theory and Ethnomusicology," and five articles, including Sumera's contribution, "Half life: Reflections on Music, Grief, and Affectivity."

Anthropology and political science graduate Ashley Thorne assisted with manuscript preparation!

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 1741-1912 eISSN: 1741-1920 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17411912.2020.1826131