Four College of Letters and Science students who received the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship to study languages outside of the U.S. discuss their time in the programs abroad.
In The Small Matter of Suing Chevron, Suzana Sawyer chronicles the decades-long litigation process surrounding a 2011 judgment by an Ecuadorian court that held Chevron liable for $9.5 billion in damages for environmental contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
The extent to which “civilization” heightens or lessens the likelihood of violent conflict throughout human history has remained one of the most enduring questions among anthropologists. But a new collaborative study of archaeological groups from the Andes region of South America suggests that being part of a centrally organized state society is only part of the equation.
Native Americans living in coastal Northern California during the Mission era were presumed to experience high rates of disease and stress. Not until now, however, did scientists have hard evidence of their health issues, according to new research conducted in cooperation with Native descendants.
In her short film Unpacking Immigration, anthropology doctoral candidate Harleen Bal illuminates what she calls the “unseen middle step between the farm and the table” by exploring the lives of immigrant meatpackers living in Livingston, California.
In a study appearing in PLOS Global Public Health, UC Davis researchers investigated the epidemiological risk factors, outside of HIV, associated with TB in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
The 2024 Summer Olympics are in full swing. While you marvel at the amazing athletic feats of running stamina during the 2024 Summer Olympics, check out the historic basis and some of the most recent research exploring the idea that humans are “born to run.”
In the Integrative Anthropology Lab at UC Davis, Manvir Singh combines evolutionary, cognitive and sociocultural methods and theory to tease apart the origins of human behavior and societies.
The book Father Time is a personal investigation into the deep history of male care, beginning with the very first caretakers, male ones among fish over 400 million years ago, through eons of mammalian and primate evolution.
Brooke Morey was recognized as the top graduating senior at UC Davis during the commencements at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center June 14 to 16. She was awarded the University Medal
