Public health research tends to neglect the inner dynamics of household decision making, which fluctuates in complex ways. With the increased pressures on households through the COVID-19 pandemic, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor […]
News & Announcements Archive
Sidney Mintz Student Fellowship for Field Research, Summer 2022
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 […]
Prof. Niloofar Haeri Awarded the 2021 Middle East Studies Association’s Fatema Mernissi Book Award
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, […]
Job Opportunities in the Department of Anthropology
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 […]
Faculty Focus: Naveeda Khan
Three questions with Associate Professor Naveeda Khan about her research, teaching, and hobbies.
Prof. Haeri Wins Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies
Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies Niloofar Haeri Johns Hopkins University Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press) […]
Congratulations to Research Grant and Trouillot Essay Prize Winners
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 […]
Words of Faith
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.
Palestine is Burning, an Emergency Debriefing
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, […]
2021 American Institute of Indian Studies Awards Joseph W. Elder Prize in Indian Social Sciences to JHU PhD Vaibhav Saria
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 […]