The Baltimore Banner has profiled Anthropology faculty member Anand Pandian and his work on Jones Falls 2076, a public art project asking Baltimore residents to envision the city’s buried Jones […]
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Sabine Mohamed co-edited an Open Book on Capture/Connect/Shift with Jatin Dua (U. of Michigan)
This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the directorship of AbdouMaliq Simone. The eight original inquiries in this collection […]
Sujung Kim Featured in The New York Times on South Korea’s First Robot Monk
Sujung Kim was recently featured in The New York Times discussing the ordination of South Korea’s first robot Buddhist monk. The article, titled “Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk […]
Anand Pandian Wins the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize
We are delighted to share that Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Anand Pandian has been awarded the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize for his book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, […]
American Alliance of Museums Features Work from a Recent Anthropology Department Class
The Center for the Future of Museums blog of the American Alliance of Museums has published a retrospective reflection on “The Future of Here,” a 2025 exhibition at the Peale […]
Householding: New Essays by Naveeda Khan, Sojung Kim, and the Anthropology Dept. Students
A new selection of essays on householding, “Householding,” by Naveeda Khan, Sojung Kim, and graduate students in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, have been published on newtermsfortheuniverse.org. These essays propose […]
An Aesthetics for the End: A Selection of Essays on the American Ethnological Society Website by Naveeda Khan
“An Aesthetics for the End,” edited by Naveeda Khan, is the first collection in our newly created series on Pedagogy. The essays explore playful and generative possibilities for theorizing endings, […]
Anand Pandian’s new book a finalist for Zócalo Book Prize
Something Between Us, the new book by Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology Anand Pandian, has been named one of four finalists for the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize, which honors “the U.S.-published […]
Hosanna Fukuzawa helps launch new collection on American Ethnologist
A new online collection — Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found — edited by JHU Anthropology grad student Hosanna Fukuzawa has just been published by the American Ethnologist. […]
Alumna Megha Majumdar Publishes A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, a Johns Hopkins Anthropology alumna, has released a new novel, A Guardian and a Thief, a harrowing and humane story set in a famine-stricken, near-future Kolkata. Reviewed in […]