READ: Prof. Fallou Ngom’s new co-edited volume, “Music as Cultural Text: Performance Traditions in West Africa and its Diasporas”
A volume co-edited by Professor Fallou Ngom has been published: Music as Cultural Text: Performance Traditions in West Africa and its Diasporas, edited by Babacar Mbaye, Fallou Ngom, Khadimou Rassoul Thiam, and Alioune Willane (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, May 31, 2025). Read it here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85276-3
READ: Prof. Wade Campbell’s new forum article, “Questions Worth Asking: Un-disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures”
After two years, a “Forum” article Professor Wade Campbell took part in was published in American Antiquity. The piece is Open Access and can be accessed here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/questions-worth-asking-undisciplining-archaeology-reclaiming-pasts-for-better-futures/6C98C47D96B030790DCA01036164C1DD Acebo, Nathan P., Wade Campbell, Edward González-Tennant, Alicia Odewale, Emily Van Alst, William A. White, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Craig N. Cipolla, and Anna S. Agbe-Davies. “Questions Worth […]
Hafsa Arain has successfully defended her dissertation
Congratulations to Grad Hafsa Arain, now Dr. Arain, PhD, who successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Reconciling the Self Within Itself”: Lateral Agency in the Formation of Queer and Trans Communities in Karachi, Pakistan”!
Prof. Luke Glowacki awarded the HBES Early Career Award
Professor Luke Glowacki was just awarded the HBES (Human Behavior and Evolution Society) Early Career Award. The Early Career Award recognizes excellent young scientists who have made distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of evolution and human behavior. It is given to no more than one person per year and thus reflects the significant […]
Faye Harwell presents at the AABA meeting
Faye Harwell, PhD alum and current Visiting Assistant Professor at BU presented a talk at the AABA meeting on “Sex Differences in Estimated Lean Body Mass of Captive and Wild Orangutans” which highlights some of her findings on orangutan muscle mass, part of her dissertation work.
Prof. Rob Weller delivers talks at the British Academy, London, & the University of Michigan
Professor Robert Weller delivered a talk, “Broken Rhythms and the Silences of Gods, Mothers and Sons,” at the British Academy, London. In April, he delivered another talk, “Divine Intimacy, Madness, and the Frustration of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China,” at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
READ: Prof. John Marston’s new articles, “Climate, political economy, and agriculture in 1st and 2nd millennium CE Anatolia” and “Wood fuel use in the Predynastic Upper Egypt Nile Valley”
Professor John Marston has recently published two articles: “Climate, political economy, and agriculture in 1st and 2nd millennium CE Anatolia” (Antiquity, 2025) and “Wood fuel use in the Predynastic Upper Egypt Nile Valley” (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2025), which includes AN doctoral student Peter Kovacik as a co-author.
Prof. Carolyn Hodges-Simeon wins the Frank and Lynee Wisenski Award for Teaching Excellence
Professor Carolyn Hodges-Simeon was awarded the Frank and Lynee Wisenski Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Arts & Sciences for her outstanding contributions to undergraduate Education.
READ: Prof Luke Glowacki’s blog post & article, “Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry”
Professor Luke Glowacki published a new article, “Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025),” and blog post, “the controversial origins of war and peace,” in Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
READ: Prof Joanna Davidson’s co-edited volume, “Pathos and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present”
Professor Joanna Davidson’s new co-edited volume, Pathos and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present, hits the shelves this July.