Congrats to PhD student, Tong Xin who won first place in the 3rd Young Curators Competition organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology
Tong Xin, along with a colleague, won first place in the 3rd Young Curators Competition organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology. The competition encourages young scholars to use curation to engage the public with museum anthropology and ethnographic work. Their exhibition plan is “Materiality and Entanglement in Teoswa: Clues of Im/mobility.” The exhibition […]
Congrats to PhD student, Hazal Aydın, on receiving an award from the AAA for her exceptional work.
Hazal Aydın received an award from the AAA for her master’s research. She has been awarded the Middle East Section Student Paper Prize for her inspiring paper, “Open Body, Theatrical Intimacy, and Sexual Harassment: Understanding Gendered Embodiments Through Turkey’s Theatre Industry.” For those who will be in Toronto and would like to stop by and […]
Congrats to PhD student, Leyla Jafarova, on her award from AAA for her ethnographic film.
Leyla Jafarova received an award from the AAA Society for Visual Anthropology for her masterful and harrowing ethnographic film “We live with maybes: Searching for missing relatives in post-war Azerbaijan.” Leyla’s award will be presented at the SVA’s Members Meeting this Sunday, November 14th at 7 PM Eastern Time.
READ: Sarah Lewinger “Educating Ideal Neoliberal Citizens: Discourses of Agency and Responsibility in Comprehensive Sexuality Education”
Lewinger, Sarah. “Educating Ideal Neoliberal Citizens: Discourses of Agency and Responsibility in Comprehensive Sexuality Education.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 31, no. 1 (2023): Educating ideal neoliberal citizens: discourses of agency and responsibility in comprehensive sexuality education
READ: Ph.D. student Trevor Lamb in The Brink “BU archaeology student Trevor Lamb found some of Alaska’s oldest ever woven textiles while looking for ancient cooked plants”
Ph.D. student Trevor Lamb in featured in The Brink Digging Up the Past on Alaska’s Kodiak Island BU archaeology student Trevor Lamb found some of Alaska’s oldest ever woven textiles while looking for ancient cooked plants Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island
Featured Graduate Student: Johnathan Norris
PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology Johnathan Norris is a fifth year doctoral candidate, studying sociocultural anthropology. His research interests include the anthropology of emotions and affect; ethics and morality; queer anthropology; political anthropology, politics of safety, politics of care; migration and displacement. We sat down with him to talk about his research and his hopes […]
Featured Graduate Student: Jessica Martin
PhD Student Biological Anthropology Jessica Martin is a second year PhD student, studying biological anthropology under the advisement of Dr. Christopher Schmitt in the Sensory Morphology and Anthropological Genomics Lab. Her dissertation research focuses on comparing the gut microbiomes of vervet monkeys living in two wild locations in South Africa. We sat down with her […]
Congrats to MAPA student Niki Xenia Alygizou on three prestigious awards for research
MAPA student Niki Xenia Alygizou has received three prestigious awards for research: A Leventis Foundation Scholarship, a Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Scholarship and a Foundation for Education and European Culture grant. Congratulations Niki!
Congrats to PhD Student Jess Martin for two summer research awards
Grad Jess Martin received two awards for her summer research. University of Washington Summer Institutes in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases Scholarship Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Science Travel Award
Congrats to PhD student Johnathan Norris on a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship
Congratulations to Johnathan Ray Norris who has just been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship! He will be back in Boston for a bit in a few months, but plans to extend his research in Jordan through next summer. Congratulations Johnathan!