Dr. Kathleen Young recently introduced two new classes to the Anthropology program: "Cross-cultural Law," and "Islam and Conflict in Central Europe." Enthusiastic and known for having a "hands on" approach to teaching, Dr. Young took six students to a conference in Sarajevo and to Srebrenica, Bosnia in 2005, where they participated in a Muslim mass funeral and reburial of 600 bodies and the excavation of a mass grave. The students accompanied her to the Milosevic trial in Den Hague and then to the Intemational Criminal Court.

In October, she gave a talk for the Bureau for Faculty Research, "Studying Genocide, Considering Suicide: Lessons from Bosnia, 2005," about life in post-genocide societies and the win to continue “tending and mending."

Dr. Young comments that, “Anthropology continues to be as humbling and challenging as it is compelling.”