STEMsapien Games with Rose Leach Basom

That Anthro Podcast

Welcome to the podcast Phd candidate at Kent State, Rose Leach Basom! Rose has a background in evolutionary and biological anthropology and is pursuing a career in forensic anthropology. We discuss being an intersectional anthropologist and how to communicate how anthropological skills can benefit younger students, even in their everyday life. We then move into her research while pursuing her master’s at Texas Tech. Her research centered around the selection pressures involved in how pelvic shape has changes with the invent of cesarian sections. She also details her field school selection process, explaining that paleoanthropology field programs in Africa were very cost prohibitive. This led her to a program through Texas Tech in Belize, where she was a student and returned for two seasons as a field director. Rose then took some time off after her masters, working as a death investigator and autopsy tech to get some experience in forensics before pursuing a PhD. She also had the opportunity to work as a researcher at Kyoto University for ten weeks conducting a research project through the primate research center. Currently, Rose is working on a way to introduce anthropology and evolution to historically underserved communities, through a board game company of her own invention Stemsapien games! https://stemsapiengames.com/ https://mobile.twitter.com/rosesleach https://roseleach.com/ Follow @thatanthropodcast on Instagram, and @ThatAnthroPod on Twitter for more behind the scenes content. Brought to you in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association check out their podcast library here https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1629