Race and Biological Anthropology with Dr. Rachel Watkins (131) - Ep 171

Recently, Anna and Amber sat down with Rachel Watkins, a biological anthropologist and scholar-activist whose research centers on social and biological histories of Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn about the social history of biological anthropology, the exemplary case studies with which Dr. Watkins has worked, why you shouldn't discount the creepy things small children sometimes do, and so much more!

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Links

• Rachel Watkins Faculty Profile (American University)

• Rachel J. Watkins on ResearchGate

• The Mismeasure of Man (WW Norton)

• The Cobb Collection (W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory)

• Watch Now! African Diasporic Activist Scholarship: Beyond the Enlightenment, Toward the Democratization of Science (Wenner-Gren Blog)

• Science and Freedom (Washington History)

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Race and Biological Anthropology with Dr. Rachel Watkins - Ep 131

Recently, Anna and Amber sat down with Rachel Watkins, a biological anthropologist and scholar-activist whose research centers on social and biological histories of Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn about the social history of biological anthropology, the exemplary case studies with which Dr. Watkins has worked, why you shouldn't discount the creepy things small children sometimes do, and so much more!

Links

• Rachel Watkins Faculty Profile (American University)

• Rachel J. Watkins on ResearchGate

• The Mismeasure of Man (WW Norton)

• The Cobb Collection (W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory)

• Watch Now! African Diasporic Activist Scholarship: Beyond the Enlightenment, Toward the Democratization of Science (Wenner-Gren Blog)

• Science and Freedom (Washington History)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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• Wildnote

• TeePublic

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Ep 79

This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?

Links

• The Bonetrade Project

• Alliance to Counter Crime Online

• Bringing Them Home: The Repatriation of Priceless Human Remains and Artifacts to Cambodia (SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone)

• Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)

• This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)

• The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)

• The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

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• Email the Dirt Podcast

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