Nat Adams, a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology, is among a handful of recipients of the Johns Hopkins 20th Century Cities Initiatives 2020 Doctoral Research on Urban Issues […]
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The American Council of Learned Societies names Mariam Banahi one of 22 Mellon/ACLS Fellows
Profs. Veena Das and Clara Han awarded NSF RAPID Covid-19 grant
Profs. Veena Das and Clara Han were awarded a National Science Foundation RAPID Covid-19 grant to fund a multi-country study on the implications of Covid-19 related policies on household decision-making […]
Anthropology MA recipient Megha Majumdar’s recently published book reviewed in New Yorker
In Megha Majumdar’s “A Burning,” a terrorist event transforms three lives—and the elements of a thriller are transmuted into prismatic portraiture. “The book’s surface realism—that great boon to writers—is abundant […]
Covid-19 and Student Focused Concerns: Threats and Possibilities
Department faculty Veena Das and Naveeda Khan have recently put together an essay collection titled “Covid-19 and Student Focused Concerns: Threats and Possibilities” available at the American Ethnological Society website.
JHU Anthropology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series
Feb 5 Charles King, Georgetown University, “Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the 20th Century” Feb 18 […]
Mintz Student Fellowship call for Proposals 2020
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 […]
Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data Presents
The Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data presents ” The Data Environment and the New University” February 24, 12 pm to 3 pm Mergenthaler 426
Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
Please join us for the Anthropology Department’s Spring 2020 Colloquium series as we present Charles Hallisey, Harvard University, and his talk, “Encountering the Contours of the Moral Person: Insights on […]
Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles King, Georgetown University
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., for the first of the JHU Anthropology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series, presenting Charles King, Georgetown University Mergenthaler 426 Dinner […]