Graduate Student Arpan Roy has a new article in Anthropological Theory on the relationship between kinship theory in anthropology and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy.

In this blog post on Anthropological Theory Commons, Veena Das argues for the importance of vernacular intellectuals to help us understand how torture has become a routine tool of national […]

The new book from Duke University Press is a small collection of essays on problems of method in anthropology, and features, among other things, a profile of Emerita Jane Guyer […]

In addition to receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Durham University, UK, Dr. Veena Das has been named a Fellow to the British Academy.

Professor Haeri’s team has been chosen to receive a 2019 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for their proposal, “Invitation to the Masses: The Russian and Iranian Revolutions and their Arts of […]

Graduate student, Arpan Roy, has published an article in the journal, Jerusalem Quarterly, from a side project on sacred Muslim shrines in Palestine.

Each year the GRO issues the Rachel S. Core award to a graduate student(s), for their outstanding service to the graduate student body.  This year they had many qualified nominees, […]

Mariam Banahi, Johns Hopkins University “The Conditionality of Welcome: Integration & the Sexual Life of Muslims in Germany” April 30 4-6 PM Mergenthaler 439

Paul Kohlbry, Johns Hopkins University, “Settler Capital and the Politics of Land Sales in the West Bank” Tuesdsay, April 23, 2019 4-6 PM Mergenthaler 439

Anthropology Department 2019 Spring Colloquium presents: Eduardo Kohn, McGill University “Forest for the Trees: Spirit, Psychedelic Science, and the Politics of Ecologizing Thought as a Planetary Ethics” Tuesday, April 2 […]