Q&A with Prof. Bob Hefner
Robert Hefner is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Pardee School of Global Affairs. He specializes in the anthropology of religion, ethics and law, education and youth development, as well as the comparative study of gender, citizenship, globalization, and modernity. Q: What is your connection with the Indonesian government? A: Just about […]
Prof. Frank Korom delivers the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology at Presidency University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion and Anthropology, has been invited to give the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology at Presidency University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on the topic of “The Dynamics of Contemporary Sufi Hagiographies in South Asia” in January 2023. While in West Bengal, he will also deliver a special lecture on […]
READ: Prof. Luke Glowacki’s article, “Mutual Intelligibility in Musical Communication”
Read the latest work by Professor Luke Glowacki: “Mutual Intelligibility in Musical Communication” Find the article here!
Prof. Corky White interviewed by BU Today
Professor Corky White was interviewed by BU Today about Thanksgiving traditions in an article called “What That Turkey Is All About: The answers to the origins of the Thanksgiving menu, the evils of deviation, and why we eat so much food.” Read it here!
Prof. Merav Shohet awarded the Carole H. Browner Society for Medical Anthropology Undergraduate Mentorship Award
The Anthropology Department sends a warm congratulations to Professor Merav Shohet! Prof. Shohet was awarded the inaugural Carole H. Browner Society for Medical Anthropology Undergraduate Mentorship Award at the American Anthropological Association’s meeting last week!
Prof. Fallou Ngom was awarded funds for “Digital Preservation of Fuuta Jalon Scholars’ Arabic and Ajami Materials in Senegal and Guinea”
Professor Fallou Ngom (Anthropology) was awarded $129,837 (£107,920) by the British Library for his project titled “Digital Preservation of Fuuta Jalon Scholars’ Arabic and Ajami Materials in Senegal and Guinea.” The project will digitally preserve 50,000 pages of endangered Arabic and Ajami manuscripts (texts written with the modified Arabic script) produced by scholars from West […]
READ: Prof. Marston & alumna Kathleen Forste’s article, “Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon”
EAL alumna Kathleen Forste (GRS ’20) and John M. Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon” just published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. This article publishes the full Islamic- and Crusader-period archaeobotanical assemblage from Ashkelon, which provides robust evidence for the complex […]
Joanna Davidson had a launch party for her new book at the AAA conference in Seattle
Joanna Davidson had a book launch party for her new book, Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World , at the AAA conference in Seattle. Congratulations Joanna! Find the book here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/opting-out/9781978830103 About the book: Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are […]
READ: Prof. Tom Barfield’s book, AFGHANISTAN: A CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
Professor Thomas Barfield’s book Afghanistan: A cultural and political history is being released in a second edition with a new chapter that covers 2010 to 2021 when the government falls to the Taliban. Find the book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691238562/afghanistan https://www.amazon.com/Afghanistan-Cultural-Political-History-Second/dp/0691238561
Congratulations to Catherine West and Bruce Anderson for receiving an NSF grant!
Catherine West (Archaeology Program) and Bruce Anderson (Dept of Earth and Environment) received an NSF grant entitled “Historical Ecology of the Pacific Cod Fishery” from the Navigating the New Arctic division. This project forms an interdisciplinary research group that will address the role of archaeology, paleoclimatology, and local ecological knowledge in contemporary fisheries management.