DR. SUSAN CRATE STORYING CLIMATE CHANGE

A GRADUATE HUMANITIES PROGRAM MAJOR SCHOLAR SEMINAR

Dr. Susan Crate is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. As an anthropologist, Dr. Crate has worked to document the experience of climate change in Siberia and other global communities

who are feeling the effects of climate change firsthand. She and her daughter, Katie Yegorov-Crate, are the subjects of a new documentary on Crate’s work titled “The Anthropologist,” a film that the New York Times called “a stealthily insightful film.” 

Sponsored by the MU Graduate Humanities Program and the Glenwood Center for Scholarship in the Humanities, a Glenwood Foundation, Marshall University, and West Virginia State University partnership

www.marshall.edu/glenwoodcenter

Fall 2017 Public Events - Thursday, October 12, 7 PM: Public screening of “The Anthropologist,” with Co-Director Seth Kramer. Marshall

University, Huntington, Smith Hall 154. Sponsored by the WV Humanities Council and MU Film Studies Program.- Thursday, October 26, 4 PM: Public screening of “The Anthropologist,” with Dr. Susan Crate. West Virginia State

University, Institute, Erickson Alumni Center. Co-sponsored with the WVSU Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences.- Friday, October 27, 4 PM: Public lecture, Dr. Susan Crate, “Storying Climate Change: On the Importance of Local

Perspectives.” John Marshall Dining Room, MU Student Center. Co-sponsored with the College of Liberal Arts and the MU Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

For more information about Dr. Crate’s Graduate Humanities Program Major Scholar Seminar, see the Marshall University Graduate Humanities Program website, www.marshall.edu/graduatehumanities.