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… “fundamentally changed the way that slavery was studied. [People began to] have questions about it, what it was, what … War.” As the generations that witnessed slavery dwindled, “people began to answer these questions through research, in a … project’s efforts “developed leadership, a new group of people who were prepared to help people dialogue rather than …

… talk about an ongoing genocide it’s important to meet the people who are part of the persecuted community and religion. … what is happening on other side of this world, where the people are not so safe. For responsible citizens and … at the time and I received a lot of phone calls from people I knew in Iraq. They felt like cries for survival.” …

… observing in that village ran against common sense for the people I was working with. To give you an example, … accountability system—all of those were built with other people in mind. I realized that anthropology offered me the … time, the 2007 Bihar flood came. There were 25 million people underwater, and a lot to do. Those floods were badly …

… what I’ve been trying to do is figure out ways to measure people’s attitudes to really sensitive questions. I work on designing surveys that measure people’s support for the Taliban or the Afghan government … to take the next step: Now that we know how to measure people’s attitudes, can it help to explain patterns of …

… likely ended up on a Portugese slave ship. The captive people, 20-30 of whom would eventually be sold in Virginia, … of bound laborers, whether indentured servants or enslaved people” were not needed. Nevertheless, the English colonists … convey what everyday life would have been like for these people. Professor Stevenson explained that in early …

… high population density, urban crowding, and poverty. When people are crowded into urban slums, it is not clear you can … extensive — much larger than in advanced economies. Many people work in the informal sector and rely on daily wages. … let them work, you throw them into poverty overnight. People in developed countries are facing hardship, but there …

… diseases.  When we try to market these solutions, often people are unwilling to adopt something new and different. As … trying to understand why is it so difficult to change people’s behavior even for things that are apparently … and sensible. If we better understand what constraints people are under, we’re able to design policies to address …

… (Spanish & Portuguese Dept) Although the presence of Black people from Sub-Saharan Africa in Iberia has not been broadly … publication , he seeks to reimagine the lives of the first people of the African diaspora through the global circulation … he accounts for the presence of Sub-Saharan African people in the Iberian Peninsula. He rejects the misconception …

… expressions foreground the complexity of Africa and its people. You speak in “Naturalizing Africa” about how … it relates to the environment? I argue in my book that “people” in African cultures include human and nonhuman … about casualties of war, we aren’t just saying 10,000 people died, but we are also thinking ecologically, …

… of plagues throughout history — and in many ways better. People separate from each other and hunker down. Economic … Given what we can learn from history, I don’t think people should just imagine that we’re going to rapidly and … of this story. Historically, during times of plague, people have often behaved badly, and we’ve seen that now, …