Q&A with Dr. Huwy-min Lucia Liu (GRS ’15)
Dr. Huwy-min Lucia Liu (GRS ’15) received her Ph.D. from Boston University and is now an assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University. Her research focuses on social change and governing death in China. Her new book, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death is an ethnography that illustrates how death management in […]
Q&A with Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford (MPH ‘05, GRS ‘09)
Interview with Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford (MPH ‘05, GRS ‘09) on her work and research after BU!
Q&A with Jade Isabella Lau (CAS ’21)
Jade Isabella Lau earned a BA in Anthropology & Religion with honors from CAS in May 2021. Her senior thesis focused on the representation of Chinese indentured laborers in Cuba from 1847 to 1894. Following graduation, Jade was one of eighteen selected for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Vietnam. She currently teaches English […]
Sumanto Al Qurtuby (GRS ’13)
Sumanto Al Qurtuby is a faculty member in the Department of Global & Social Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he was a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a senior research scholar at the Middle East Institute, National University of […]
Macken Murphy (CAS ’19)
Macken Murphy graduated in 2020 with a dual major in History and Biological Anthropology. He was honored as the student speaker for the 2020 commencement. During his sophomore year at Boston University, Macken launched Species, a “Podcast About Animals.” Each episode examines one type of creature at a time, drawing audiences in the thousands. This […]
Lynsey Farrell (GRS ’15)
Lynsey Farrell has taken an unusual path by academic standards. Focused on the intersections of youth, livelihoods, informality and urbanization, she completed her ethnographic field research in Nairobi, Kenya while directing the American University’s study abroad program on sustainable development in Kenya. After returning to the United States to write up her dissertation, she joined […]
Robert Rodriguez Suro (CAS ’13)
Robert Rodriguez Suro graduated in 2013 with a dual major in Biology (with specialization in Behavioral Biology) and Biological Anthropology. After graduating, he spent a year in Borneo as a research volunteer for the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project, led by Professor Cheryl Knott. In 2014, he was awarded a National Geographic Young Explorer Grant (now […]
Andrea L. DiGiorgio (GRS ’19)
Andrea started a position teaching STEM writing in the Princeton Writing Center in the fall of 2019. In this role, she’s worked with several freshmen on conference posters and one publication (Will Individual ActionsDo the Trick? Comparing Climate Change Mitigation through Geoengineering versus Reduced Emissions, Murray & DiGiorgio 2021). She has also continued her research […]
Alexis Winter (CAS ’09)
Alexis Winter graduated with a BA in sociocultural anthropology in 2009, after writing an honors thesis exploring the identity practices of Irish punk bands in and around Boston. She now manages communications for the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and educators working to protect and restore biodiversity both in […]
Elizabeth Alva-Rajakumar (CAS ’16)
Lizzie graduated from BU with a BA in anthropology in May 2016. She then earned a law degree from Loyola in 2019. Immediately after law school, Lizzie began working at the Jenesse Center, a non-profit dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence, as the Loyola Law School Post-Graduate Public Interest Fellow. She has since become […]