Faculty News

Assist Prof Wade Campbell featured in BU Arts & Sciences article

The BU Arts & Sciences Magazine has written an article on Assistant Professor Wade Campbell called “Reclaiming Their Voice: Navajo archaeology and anthropology professor Wade Campbell examines his tribe’s history of sheepherding”.  Read it here: https://www.bu.edu/…/fall-2022/reclaiming-their-voice/

READ: Prof. Smith-Hefner’s co-edited volume, WAITHOOD, newly available in paperback

Newly Available in Paperback! WAITHOOD: GENDER, EDUCATION, AND GLOBAL DELAYS IN MARRIAGE AND CHILDBEARINGEDITED BY MARCIA C. INHORN AND NANCY J. SMITH-HEFNER DESCRIPTION The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and […]

READ: Alize Arican’s new article, “Counterfactual future-thinking”

You can read her article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758231158376 Abstract: In this article, I follow two urban experts, a Turkish construction site manager and a Kurdish foreman, working in Taksim 360, one of Istanbul’s first state-led urban transformation projects still in construction since 2006. Homing in on the protracted landscape of construction, I am concerned with how […]

Capillary Livelihoods; Q&A about New CFD Grant for Four BU Anthropologists

Ayşe Parla is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and serves as the Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Graduate Academic Programs and Policies . Her primary research is on migration, dispossession, and the afterlives of the Armenian genocide. Caterina Scaramelli is a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Earth & Environments. Her research focuses on the intersection […]