PhD candidate Talia Katz’s essay, “Healing Without Monsters: On Psychodrama and Therapeutic Experimentation in Israel,” the recipient of the Small Grants Competition by the American Ethnological Society.
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Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow Program
The department of anthropology encourages current and recent doctoral students to apply for the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow Program at Johns Hopkins University. These fellowships “seek to locate, promote, and nurture […]
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Undergraduate Amanda Yuen awarded PURA for 2020-2021
We are proud to share that Amanda Yuen, an extraordinary undergraduate double majoring in Anthropology and International Studies, was awarded by the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR) a PURA […]
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Anthropology PhD Candidate Nat Adams Recipient of Johns Hopkins 20th Century Cities Initiatives’ 2020 Doctoral Research on Urban Issues Award
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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]