Anthropology Department 2019 Spring Colloquium Series presents: Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh “Intimate Commitments: Friends, Comrades and Family in the Life of One Sri Lankan Activist” Tuesday, March 26, 2019 […]
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Narges Bojoghli,”Anxieties of Power: Regime Media Production…,” Feb. 19
Anthropology Department Spring 2019 Colloquium Series presents: Narges Bojoghli, JHU SAIS, “Anxieties of Power: Regime Media Production and Sustaining a Revolution in Iran” Tuesday, February 19, 4-6 pm Mergenthaler 439 […]
Anthropology Faculty Recipients of 2019-2021 Mellon Foundation Grant
We are happy to announce that Professors Naveeda Khan and Veena Das from the Department of Anthropology and Professor Jeremy Greene from Medicine and the History of Medicine and the […]
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Awarded to Ghazal Asif and Thomas Thornton
The department of Anthropology is proud to announce that doctoral candidates Ghazal Asif and Thomas Thornton have been awarded the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, which will enable them to teach an […]
PhD Candidate Mikaela Chase Receives Wenner-Gren Grant and AIIS Fellowship
PhD candidate Mikaela Chase has been awarded both the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and the American Institute for Indian Studies Junior Fellowship to support her dissertation research. Her project is titled “Confronting Asceticism: Law, […]
Alumnus Awarded APLA Book Prize
Congratulations to Isaias Rojas-Perez for being awarded the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize for his book “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes” (Stanford University Press, 2017). He was celebrated during the APLA business meeting on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Grad student Bürge Abiral Receives NSF Grant
Graduate student Bürge Abiral has received the National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to conduct the project titled “Networks, Decision Models, and Moral Economies in […]
Benita Menezes Receives Society of Economic Anthropology Award
Graduate student Benita Menezes has received the inaugural M. Estellie Smith Memorial Fund award. Her project was “The Politics of Dispossession: Neoliberal Subjects, Law and the Market in Rural Maharashtra, India.” The award honors Dr. Smith, who was a past president of the Society of Economic Anthropology (SEA). The fund provides graduate students small grants specifically to supplement dissertation fieldwork expenses and subsequent travel money to present their findings at the SEA annual conference.
Stanley Cavell – In Memoriam
It is with great sadness that the Departments of Comparative Thought and Literature, Anthropology, and Philosophy announce the passing of Professor Stanley Cavell, who has been a major influence on […]
Alumnus Awarded Flora Tristan Book Prize
Congratulations to Isaias Rojas-Perez for being awarded the Flora Tristan Book Prize 2018 for his book “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes” (Stanford University Press, 2017), given by the Latin American Studies Association Peru Section to the best book on Peru published in any language in 2017.