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Karl Schmid

York anthropology prof wins prestigious North American award

York anthropology Professor Karl Schmid (PhD ’07) has been named the recipient of Public Anthropology’s prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Named to honour the former first lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, the award celebrates her role as chair of the United Nations committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Left: Karl Schmid The […]

York undergrads win North American contest for debating legacy of anthropology research

Who should be the beneficiaries of publicly funded anthropological research? That was the question York students in Professor Karl Schmid’s second-year Public Anthropology class addressed in their submissions to the 2010 Public Anthropology Competition – a North America-wide contest involving 4,000 students in 21 schools. Seven students in Schmid’s class won awards for their op-ed pieces, which debated the […]