Hardin receives Rudolf Virchow Award
Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded the Rudolf Virchow Award for her paper “Life Before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa,” which was published in Cultural Anthropology. The award goes to articles that demonstrate “critical anthropology focus with rich ethnographic data, and best reflect, extend, and/or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropological questions in the general area of global public health.”
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