Valeria Procupez was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer. Congratulations to Valeria on this deserved recognition of her teaching contributions to the department. Aja Lens recently participated in the closing ceremony for excavations at the Harlem African Burial Ground. You can read more about Aja’s work in the NYC Economic Development Council newsletter. Congratulations to Fernando López Vega who received a Wenner-Gren […]

An interview with department professor Anand Pandian was featured on the front page of the September 9th edition of the Baltimore Sun. In the interview about his new book, Something Between Us, Pandian speaks of the work of anthropology: “As an anthropologist, I’m trained to try to make sense of people’s lives in different societies, […]

Anand Pandian, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology in the department, published his fifth book earlier this summer, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down. The book argues that our political and social impasses in the United States are a consequence of the everyday walls and divides that Americans […]

The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that PhD student Sophie D’Anieri has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for the 2025–2026 academic year. Sophie will conduct research in Mexico as part of the world’s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program. Administered by the U.S. Department of State and the […]

Anthropology graduate student Alaa Saad was recently awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in support of her project “Prompting the Past, Crafting the Present: Replication Technologies and the Renarration of Egyptian Histories” “This research project examines how Egyptian cultural producers, artists, and artisans employ replication technologies to prompt popular historical imaginaries that […]

Anthropology graduate student Fernando Lopez Vega was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation in support of his project “Education and Vocational Training in the Energy Sector.”  “This project explores changes in work and educational relationships within the youth labor market in a context of where biomass-based electricity development […]

The Department of Anthropology is proud to share that Sabine Mohamed has been accepted into the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the 2025–2026 academic year. This prestigious appointment recognizes her outstanding scholarly contributions and promises to further enrich her research and the broader academic community. As a […]

We are pleased to announce that two of our talented Anthropology students have recently accepted exciting new academic roles. Marios Falaris has been appointed to a full-time faculty position in Anthropology within the Department of Society, Culture & Thought at Bennington College. Talia Katz has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Israel Studies […]

We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 8th annual Sidney Mintz Fellowship. Inaugurated in 2015, the Sydney Mintz Fellowship seeks to support graduate field and archival research that echoes the spirit of Professor Mintz’s own work, with a focus on inequality and race, food and agricultural histories, and the place of language in […]

Jonas Stark Johnson presented a paper titled “The Gunsmith: Curators of America’s Gun Culture” at the inaugural Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) symposium, hosted by the Center for the Study of Guns in Society at Arizona State University. Jonas was also named a BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Fellow for […]