Prof. Fallou Ngom has been awarded the 2024 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award
Fallou Ngom has been awarded the 2024 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. This award recognizes outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside and outside the classroom and who contribute to the art and science of teaching and learning. The award carries with it an honorarium of $5,000. Congratulations, Fallou!
Prof. Knott featured in this months National Geographic
BU Anthropology’s Cheryl Knott is featured in this month’s National Geographic magazine! From Christopher Schmitt: The article focuses on Gunung Palung, the Park in Indonesia where she has been the principal investigator for the past 30 years. The piece frames her conservation work to save the orangutans and the rainforest (through partnering with local people […]
Prof Hefner presents at the Center for Asian Democracy
On February 5, 2024, Professor Bob Hefner presented an invited lecture on “Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and the Challenge of an Inclusive Islamic Ethics” at the Center for Asian Democracy. The Center is associated with with the Department of Political Scienceat the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40208. His host was the political scientist David Buckley.
Prof Hefner speaks to the League of Women Voters of Williamsburg, VA
On February 3, 2024, Bob presented a lecture via zoon to the League of Women Voters of Williamsburg, VA. The title was “Understanding Indonesia: A Muslim-majority Democracy,” and was part of the League’s year-long talk series on, “Great Decisions 2024.” Political scientist Dr. Donald Schilling was the moderator.
Prof. Bob Hefner Keynote Address at Nahdlatul Ulama Congress in Indonesia
Hefner Keynote Address at Nahdlatul Ulama Congress in Indonesia On January 29, 2024, Robert (Bob) Hefner presented an invited keynote address in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, at the annual national congress of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). With some 90 million followers, NU is the largest Muslim organization in the world. Over the past ten years NU has committed […]
Prof Shohet selected to receive the 2024 Boston University Undergraduate Academic Advising Award
Prof Merav Shohet has been selected to receive the 2024 Boston University Undergraduate Academic Advising Award in the Faculty Academic Advisor Category. Prof Shohet previously won the Templeton Award for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring in 2023. Congratulations Merav!
The Anthropology Department fondly remembers Jane Guyer after her passing
We remember fondly Jane Guyer, former Professor of Anthropology and the African Studies Center at Boston University. She passed away in January 2024. BU professor Parker Shipton writes: “Jane Guyer was a much beloved and respected professor in BU’s Anthropology Department and the African Studies Center before she moved to Johns Hopkins to be with […]
READ: Prof David Carballo has published a book in the new Cambridge Elements series
Professor David Carballo’s new book with Gary Feinman, Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica, can be found in Cambridge Elements: Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century. View the book at this link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/collective-action-and-the-reframing-of-early-mesoamerica/7977197F5C70EE1EAB24C0EBE647C813
Prof. Chris Schmitt has just been awarded a Leaky Foundation Grant for his project, Fission-Fusion Dynamics in a High-Altitude Atelin Primate (Lagothrix flavicauda)
Prof. Chris Schmitt has just been awarded a Leaky Foundation Grant for his project, Fission-Fusion Dynamics in a High-Altitude Atelin Primate (Lagothrix flavicauda). Congratulations Chris!
Prof Tom Barfield’s new book, Shadow Empires, is reviewed in the New York Times!
Prof Tom Barfield’s new book, Shadow Empires, is reviewed in the New York Times! “Being good at conquest isn’t just about logistics and battle tactics. Today’s anti-“woke” warriors in Congress likely would be surprised by the Boston University anthropologist Thomas Barfield’s insightful SHADOW EMPIRES: An Alternative Imperial History (Princeton University Press, 366 pp., $35). Barfield concludes […]