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Podcast: Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity
Episode: Rewriting the Peopling of the Americas: A Genetic Journey Through Time
Description: Guest Jennifer Raff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. She works with Indigenous communities and tribes across North America who wish to use DNA as a tool for investigating questions of recent and more distant histories. Her first book, "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas," is a New York Times bestseller and has won multiple awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa book award in science. In 2024 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (General Nonfiction) to support work on her second book. Why This Episode Matters Professor Raff d...