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Professor Chris Dole and an exterior view of First Church in Amherst, MA
Chris Dole (l) and the exterior of the First Church in Amherst (r) that one of his students wrote about.

Adapting Pedagogies to the Pandemic

Featured Faculty: Chris Dole

Experiments in ethnographic writing and developing student-facilitated asynchronous discussions in an Anthropology course, "Contemporary Topics in Anthropology."

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Anthropology & Sociology Prizes and awards

Prizes & Awards

The Bonnie B. Emory Fund supports senior thesis research; the Donald S. Pitkin Prize honors the best completed thesis work in anthropology and sociology.