That Anthro Podcast

That Anthro Podcast

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That Anthro Podcast episodes

  • A Discussion on Race and Gender with Professor Raquel Pacheco

    This week's episode touches on some of the hard hitting questions and research being done by Dr. Raquel Pacheco, an assistant professor at UCSB, on race, gender, and migration, specifically focusing on researching these issues in Mexico. 

    Dr. Pacheco grew up in a border town, and identifies as Chicana (defined as a woman who embracers her Mexican culture and heritage, but simultaneously, recognizes the fact that she is an American) and takes the time to explain her cultural affiliations as well as how she ended up falling in love with Anthropology. We discuss the book she is working on as well as the many fascinating projects she has done, as well as how she has tackled teaching Anth 125: The Anthropology of Gender at UCSB. Lastly, we touch on her inspiration, her partner Georgette Gomez who ran for Congress this term.  Please enjoy and consider looking up her work, https://www.anth.ucsb.edu/people/raquel-pacheco.

    This weeks book recommendation: A Women's Place in the Andes, Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. 

    This episode is brought to you in collaboration with the AAA (American Association of Anthropologists) check out their podcast library here: https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1629

    42 min
  • Ecology and Animal Behavior with Ronnie Bailey-Steinitz
    Join me today for an incredibly fascinating and informative episode with pHd student Ronnie Bailey-Steinitz and her work with monkey's in Uganda, as well as some inspiration and fieldwork advice. We discuss her research questions and how she non-invasively studies food-web interactions and how different species interact within an ecological community. We also discuss her meeting her idol Jane Goodall, what drives her, and how she hopes her work is impacting conservation efforts!
    Links:
    https://www.roamingecologist.com/
    Ronnie's book recommendation: “Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution” by Jonathan Losos
    Ronnie's podcast recommendation: The Common Descent Podcast
    31 min
  • Zooarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology with Dr. Sarah McClure
    This week we dive into a wide range of subjects with Dr. Sarah McClure, a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at UCSB. From her transition back to UCSB as a professor, her new role organizing and expanding UCSB's faunal collection, curating bones collected from PL Walker's lab, finding a love for anthropology, and shining a light on the badass empowering women in Anthropology. Dr. McClure's work encompasses examining faunal and human bones, examining diet and agriculture, and overarching environmental questions primarily working in the Mediterranean. Check out her most recent publication here which we discuss in the episode: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oa.2878. She also discusses her mentor Mindy Zeder, and her moto on how to succeed in academia "you have to be excellent and you have to be persistent."
    31 min
  • Get to Know Host Gabriella Campbell
    Hey podcast listeners! Wondering what’s going on with me behind the scenes? Or maybe you’re new here and you wanna learn more about me, Gabriella Campbell, the host of That Anthro Podcast? Well this is the episode for you! I’ll talk about my classes, my dog, sustainable Christmas presents and companies, forensics projects, grad school and more! Enjoy! xo Gabby
    23 min
  • Anthropology of Fire with Jordan Thomas

    Welcome UCSB PhD student Jordan Thomas to the podcast this week! Jordan chats with us today about his work as a wildland firefighter and how it has influenced and impacted his anthropological studies. We also chat about his journey to becoming an environmental and cultural anthropologist! Check out his work below:

    Book of the week: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 

    Links to Jordan's writings:

    https://www.independent.com/2018/11/27/unnatural-disaster-california-fires/

    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-14/wildfires-california-climate-change-denial

    https://jtanthropology.com/ 

    38 min
  • Archaeoethnobotany and Diversity in Anthropology with Dr. Amber VanDerwarker
    Please welcome Dr. Amber VanDerwarker an archaeologist, or an archaeobotanist to be more specific, and professor of 13 years at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. VanDerwarker chats with us today about her journey as a first generation college student, what motivated her to become an anthropologist and teacher, diversity in the field, and her own research. This is a jam-packed episode, and there is much of Dr. VanDerwarker's work we did not have the chance to cover including her book published in 2015, with her husband Dr. Greg Wilson of UCSB "The Archaeology of Food and Warfare" which I would encourage you to check out if you are interested. Also check out her lab website here, https://vanderwarker.anth.ucsb.edu/ for more info on the Integrative Subsistence Laboratory at UCSB!
    1 hr 11 min
  • Stories from an Adventuring Archaeologist: Stephanie Black

    My friend Stephanie Black joins us today, recording all the way from Sydney Australia! Steph graduated from Macquire University with a degree in archaeology in 2017, and since has been traveling the world doing various archaeological project. Hear about her once in a lifetime experience at the Crenshaw Center in Scotland, what it was really like to work in Dubai in the middle of a desert, and how she is trying to incorporate Australian indigenous history into her social media content. Follow @thatanthropodcast on instagram for more behind the scenes content, and check out Steph @adventuringarchaeologist!

    37 min
  • The Many Sides of Fieldwork: Advice, Stories, Must Have Items, and more
    Welcome to this week's episode of That Anthro Podcast where I reach out to some of my colleagues to collaborate for their experiences doing anthropological fieldwork! Be prepared to hear our lessons learned, some of our prized items in the field, the importance of electrolytes, and the reality that most of the time you don't find buried treasure! Hear from your host Gabby Campbell, PhD students MacKenzie Wade and Amy Anderson, archaeologist Stephanie Black, and fellow anthropology undergrad Olivia Thompson. Check out our instagram @thatanthropodcast for more behind the scenes content! Thanks for listening!
    32 min
  • Ivanna Robledo: graduate school and her thesis
    UCSB alumni Ivanna Robledo joins us today on the podcast to talk all things graduate school! Currently working on her MA at Texas State in Biological Anthropology and Forensics, Ivanna hopes to use data such as craniometric measurements from Southern and Central American countries to help improve the ancestry database for helping identify the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the border into the US.  She also works with Operation Identification, an organization who works along the South Texas border excavating and hopefully identifying migrant remains, https://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/outreach/opid.html. Also mentioned in the episode is an episode of VICE on this Texas State Operation Identification programs, found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE3gIqiNKNA&feature=youtu.be. Also big thank you to Ivanna for recording with me!
    20 min
  • Cannibalism in Jamestown with Noah Hayes

    "She was a fourteen year old girl given the name Jane, who just months after her arrival in Jamestown, was not only dead, but also cannibalized. The settlers that she joined on the voyage across the Atlantic left England filled with hope about the potential prospers of the new world.Little did they know, they were sailing straight into their collective demise." -Noah Hayes, 2020. Settle in for this week's episode where fellow 3rd year undergraduate Anthropology major Noah tells our listeners the story of cannibalism in the Starving Time of Jamestown. 

    17 min

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Welcome to the podcast dedicated to Anthropology. On this podcast we will investigate different topics in anthropology, as well as interviewing a wide range of guests to hear about some of their…