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Student and Faculty Accomplishments in 2025

Valeria Procupez was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer. Congratulations to Valeria on this deserved recognition of her teaching contributions to the department. Aja Lens recently participated in the closing ceremony for excavations […]


Department Research Featured on the Front Page of the Baltimore Sun

An interview with department professor Anand Pandian was featured on the front page of the September 9th edition of the Baltimore Sun. In the interview about his new book, Something […]


Professor Anand Pandian Publishes Fifth Book

Anand Pandian, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology in the department, published his fifth book earlier this summer, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them […]


JHU Anthropology Student Sophie D’Anieri Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that PhD student Sophie D’Anieri has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for the 2025–2026 academic year. Sophie will conduct […]


Alaa Saad Receives Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship

Anthropology graduate student Alaa Saad was recently awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in support of her project “Prompting the Past, Crafting the Present: Replication Technologies and […]


Graduate Student Fernando Lopez Vega Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship

Anthropology graduate student Fernando Lopez Vega was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation in support of his project “Education and Vocational Training in […]


Sabine Mohamed Accepted into the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

The Department of Anthropology is proud to share that Sabine Mohamed has been accepted into the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the […]


Anthropology Students Secure New Academic Positions

We are pleased to announce that two of our talented Anthropology students have recently accepted exciting new academic roles. Marios Falaris has been appointed to a full-time faculty position in […]


8th Annual Sidney Mintz Fellowship Awardees

We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 8th annual Sidney Mintz Fellowship. Inaugurated in 2015, the Sydney Mintz Fellowship seeks to support graduate field and archival research that […]


JHU Anthropology Students Jonas Johnson and Alaa Saad: Symposium, Fellowship, and Upcoming Course

Jonas Stark Johnson presented a paper titled “The Gunsmith: Curators of America’s Gun Culture” at the inaugural Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) symposium, […]