News & Announcements Archive

Perry Maddox Awarded Dissertation Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation

Anthropology graduate student Perry Maddox has received a highly- competitive grant to support dissertation research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Here are further details on the project: “Swidden Futures: Indigenous/campesino practice […]

Alessandro Angelini Awarded Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation

Anthropology professor Alessandro Angelini has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a grant meant to support to support innovative writing projects to advance anthropological knowledge. Here […]

Prof. Han Awarded Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Senior Book Prize

Prof. Clara Han was awarded the Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize 2022 for her book Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2021). The […]

Michel-Rolph Troulliot Essay Prize for Undergraduate Students

You are invited to submit original writing, an essay written for a class assignment, or an excerpt from a thesis or independent study.

Veena Das on the Collaborative Research on Household Level Data on the COVID-19, available at Coronavirus Resource Center, JHU

Public health research tends to neglect the inner dynamics of household decision making, which fluctuates in complex ways. With the increased pressures on households through the COVID-19 pandemic, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor […]

Sidney Mintz Student Fellowship for Field Research, Summer 2022

Sidney Mintz Student Fellowship for Field Research, Summer 2022

We are very pleased to announce the fourth annual Sidney Mintz Student Fellowships for Field Research. Professor Mintz inaugurated the fund in the fall of 2015, by re-assigning funds from […]

Prof. Niloofar Haeri Awarded the 2021 Middle East Studies Association’s Fatema Mernissi Book Award

We congratulate Dr. Niloofar Haeri for being chosen the winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Fatema Mernissi Book Award, which honors the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, […]

Job Opportunities in the Department of Anthropology

We’re hiring in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University: two open-rank tenure-line positions, on Political & Economic Anthropology, and on Inter-Asian Movements. Applications due on December 12th. Please share widely, thank […]

Faculty Focus: Naveeda Khan

Faculty Focus: Naveeda Khan

Three questions with Associate Professor Naveeda Khan about her research, teaching, and hobbies.

Prof. Haeri Wins Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies

Prof. Haeri Wins Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies

Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies Niloofar Haeri Johns Hopkins University Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press) […]