Congratulations to Isaias Rojas-Perez for being awarded the Flora Tristan Book Prize 2018 for his book “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes” (Stanford University Press, 2017), given by the Latin American Studies Association Peru Section to the best book on Peru published in any language in 2017. 

Join us from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m, March 30 in Mergenthaler 439 for a workshop on anthropology and literature. The event features three panels, a reading, and lunch and refreshments. 

Hidden Museums of Crochet, an exhibition photographed and curated by Megha Sharma Sehdev, will be on display in Gallery Q in the MSE Library, Feb. 15 through March 15. Join us for an opening reception 5-6 p.m., Feb. 15. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit is sponsored by the Mellon Arts and Innovation Grant, Trude and Joseph Alpert Book and Exhibit Fund, JHU Center for Advanced Media Studies, and JHU Department of Anthropology.

In an interview with the Social Science Research Council, graduate student David Platzer talks about his work as a user experience researcher for Adobe. He also discusses his dissertation research […]

Juan Obarrio has recently been named as a board member for the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. CHCI is a global network encompassing more than 200 members from several world regions, including humanities centers, institutes, libraries and archives.