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.
News & Announcements Archive
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 […]
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 […]
Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data Presents
The Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data presents ” The Data Environment and the New University” February 24, 12 pm to 3 pm Mergenthaler 426
Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
Please join us for the Anthropology Department’s Spring 2020 Colloquium series as we present Charles Hallisey, Harvard University, and his talk, “Encountering the Contours of the Moral Person: Insights on […]
Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles King, Georgetown University
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., for the first of the JHU Anthropology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series, presenting Charles King, Georgetown University Mergenthaler 426 Dinner […]
Graduate Student Arpan Roy Publishes Article in Anthropological Theory
Graduate Student Arpan Roy has a new article in Anthropological Theory on the relationship between kinship theory in anthropology and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy.
Prof. Veena Das Blog Post on Anthropological Theory Commons
In this blog post on Anthropological Theory Commons, Veena Das argues for the importance of vernacular intellectuals to help us understand how torture has become a routine tool of national […]
Prof. Anand Pandian publishes a new book, A Possible Anthropology
The new book from Duke University Press is a small collection of essays on problems of method in anthropology, and features, among other things, a profile of Emerita Jane Guyer […]
Dr. Veena Das named Fellow to the British Academy
In addition to receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Durham University, UK, Dr. Veena Das has been named a Fellow to the British Academy.