We congratulate Dr. Niloofar Haeri for being chosen the winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Fatema Mernissi Book Award, which honors the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, […]

We’re hiring in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University: two open-rank tenure-line positions, on Political & Economic Anthropology, and on Inter-Asian Movements. Applications due on December 12th. Please share widely, thank […]

The results of the 2021 competition for the Anthropology Summer Research Grant and the Trouillot Essay Prize are in. Read the undergraduate awards page to learn about the sparky undergraduates who […]

Niloofar Haeri, professor of anthropology and chair of the Program in Islamic Studies, discussed her recent book, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran, in the Spring 2021 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.

On Wednesday, May 19th, the Department of Anthropology sponsored a teach-in session on current conditions on the ground in Palestine and Israel, moderated by recent JHU anthropology PhD Arpan Roy, […]

Vaibhav Saria has been awarded one of two 2021 AIIS Book Prizes, the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, for Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty […]

The Department of Anthropology in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in ecological justice and design, to begin on July 1, 2021. […]