News & Announcements Archive

JHU Anthropology Student Sophie D’Anieri Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

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 […]

Alaa Saad Receives Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship

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 […]

Graduate Student Fernando Lopez Vega Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship

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 […]

Sabine Mohamed Accepted into the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

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 […]

Anthropology Students Secure New Academic Positions

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 […]

8th Annual Sidney Mintz Fellowship Awardees

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 […]

JHU Anthropology Students Jonas Johnson and Alaa Saad: Symposium, Fellowship, and Upcoming Course

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, […]

JHU Anthropology Student, Talia Katz, Publishes Article in International Journal

We are pleased to announce that Talia Katz‘s article, “A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod,” has been published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry and is now […]

JHU Anthropology Presentations @ 2024 AAA Meeting

JHU Anthropology Presentations @ 2024 AAA Meeting

Johns Hopkins University students and faculty are set to present their research at the 2024 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, held November 20–23 in Tampa, Florida. This year’s theme, […]

Naveeda Khan’s Field Dispatches from Bangladesh

Naveeda Khan’s Field Dispatches from Bangladesh

Professor of Anthropology Naveeda Khan has provided detailed accounts of the escalating conflict between Bangladeshi student protesters and the government. Naveeda’s research highlights the broader implications of this incident, revealing […]