READ: BU Alum Feyza Burak-Adli’s Editorial ‘Genderless souls?: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts’
BU Alum Feyza Burak-Aldi’s new editorial “Genderless souls?: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts” is now available online and will soon be available in print! EXCERPT: “The present moment invites us to further challenge how we can think of Sufism and gender through a rigorous reflection not only on the ways in which gender and religious […]
BU Alum Lindsay Gifford Awarded University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium Interdisciplinary Research Grant
BU Alum Lindsay Gifford (Ph.D. 2009) was awarded the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium Interdisciplinary Research Grant for a project titled “Imagining the Sanctuary City: Chicago’s Current Migration in Anthropological, Legal and Historical Perspectives.” She is collaborating with faculty in Law and Humanities to better understand migrant and refugee reception in Sanctuary City contexts. Congratulations […]
READ: BU Alum Annika Schmeding’s NEW book “Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan”
BU alum Annika Schmeding’s new book “Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan” is out NOW! Annika co-edited the book and it is released with Berghahn Books. The volume is a collection of essays that probes the boundaries of knowledge production in complex and shifting research settings through exploratory ethnographic writing and probing […]
BU Alum Calynn Dowler Awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
BU alum Calynn Dowler was recently awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in order to finish drafting her current book project. The Wenner-Gren Foundation helps to provide grants and fellowships to support research in all branches of anthropology. The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship provides a stipend for 9 months of full-time writing for […]
READ: BU Alum Dr. Laura Heath-Stout’s book, Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs
BU Archaeology Alum Dr. Laura Heath-Stout’s new book, Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs (an expansion of her dissertation done at BU) is available for preorder, and comes out on 10/31! Congrats Laura! Preorder Laura’s Book Here
Anthropology Department Talks 2024-2025: Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford, A Method in Three Stories: Ethical Reckonings with the Lives of Data and the Case for Co-Design
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Departments of Sociology and Global Health at Emory University. She is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Talk Abstract: A method in three stories: Ethical reckonings with the […]
READ: two new publications from AN alum Noha Roushdy
AN Alum Noha Roushdy has two new publications. Check them out here: https://journals.openedition.org/esma/702?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR36UqqJXvgvBrr7y75sVnr_mG01zjhYRXEySYL3qAUXeyqE_wuw9R5f_Bs_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
READ: Prof Cheryl Knott and PhD alum Andrea DiGiorgio’s chapter in new book “How Primates Eat”
Professor Cheryl Knott and PhD alum Andrea DiGiorgio co-authored chapter 7 in a new book from the University of Chicago Press: How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order. From DiGirogio about the book: Exciting news!! After working on a chapter with Dr. Cheryl Knott for 7 years, this book is […]
Anthro alum Arianna Huhn promoted to full professor at California State University San Bernadino
News from Alum Arianna Huhn who has just been promoted to full professor at California State University San Bernadino (CSUSB). Congratulations Ari! Here she is at her hooding ceremony at BU 11 years ago with Prof Joanna Davidson.
READ: BU Alum Erica Larson’s article, “Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality”
BU Alum Erica Larson shares her published article: HAU:Journal of Ethnographic Theory special issue “Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality” is out! Articles are open-access for 30 days. These articles focusing on learning and ethical self-making stemmed from an Asia Research Institute virtual conference in late 2021. Congrats to all the authors! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/728200