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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 […]

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 […]