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Student Spotlight: Lola Aguiar '25

In this spotlight, the department spoke with Lola Aguiar, a member of the Class of 2025 and Anthropological Archaeology concentrator, about their senior thesis research.
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Alumni Spotlight: Kaetlyn Liddy '22

In this alumni spotlight, Kaetlyn Liddy '22 details what life has been like after graduating from Brown — including a position at NBC News as a newsroom coordinator.

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Fieldwork Update: North Burial Ground

The department caught up with Jordi Rivera Prince to learn the latest on The North Burial Ground Documentation Project.
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Student Spotlight: Radhika Moral

In this spotlight, graduate student Radhika Moral catches up with the department after 20 months of fieldwork in Northeast India.
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Meet the 2024-25 First-Year Graduate Cohort

The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to welcome its 2024-25 first-year graduate cohort to Brown! From family ties and kinship to Black Feminist Theory to global supply chains — this year's cohort brings a full spectrum of research interests to College Hill.
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Summer Update: Fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico

During the month of June, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Andrew Scherer, Associate Professor of Anthropology Shanti Morell-Hart, and graduate student Moisés Herrera Parra (Moi) were in Chiapas, Mexico for fieldwork as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Busiljá-Chocoljá (PABC).
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Watson Smith Prize 2024: Call for Submissions

The Department of Anthropology announces its annual competition for the Watson Smith Prize for best student anthropology research paper. The cash award will be $250.00. If submissions merit it, there will be one prize given at the graduate student level and one prize given at the undergraduate student level. Prizes will be announced at commencement in May.
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Women's History Month: Katherine Mason

Katherine Mason is a medical anthropologist and co-founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). In this spotlight, she discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.
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Celebrating International Women's Day

International Women's Day is March 8th. In this feature, Jessaca Leinaweaver shares her recent work with the international organization SOS Children's Villages and her continuing research around the past, present, and future of gendered kinship.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Isabella Ferrera '24

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Isabella Ferrera '24, an Anthropology and English concentrator, to learn more about what she looks forward to accomplishing in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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What's to love about Anthropology?

In a special Valentine's Day feature, concentrators in the Department of Anthropology share what they love about being part of the community. 
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Taking Archaeology to the Big Screen

In this spotlight, Parker VanValkenburgh delves into his work on the show "Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin" — now streaming on DisneyPlus!
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Deans' Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Samee Sulaiman

The Deans’ Faculty Fellows program selects students for a two-semester appointment as Visiting Assistant Professors, following the completion of the Ph.D. degree. In this spotlight, Samee Sulaiman discusses his work as a Deans' Faculty Fellow in Anthropology focusing on health and war-related disabilities.
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Student Spotlight: Emily Cigarroa '24

In this spotlight interview, fourth-year undergraduate Emily Cigarroa elaborates on her experience as a double concentrator in the Department of Anthropology and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
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Student Spotlight: Deborah Cherman '25

In this spotlight interview, the Department of Anthropology caught up with Deborah Cherman '25, a Medical Anthropology and Health and Human Biology concentrator, to learn more about her work as a research assistant for the Pandemic Journaling Project.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Luke Horton '24

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Luke Horton, a current fourth-year Anthropology and Psychology concentrator, to hear what he's excited to accomplish in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Yomi Adegbile '25

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Yomi Adegbile, a current third-year student in the Brown-RISD dual degree program, to hear what he's excited to accomplish in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Advancement grant totaling $348,190 will support further development and expansion of the "GeoPACHA 2.0: Large-Scale Archaeological Imagery Survey Through Human-Machine Teaming" platform to enable large-scale artificial intelligence-assisted surveys of archaeological sites in South America.
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National Postdoc Appreciation Week

September 18-22 is National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Join the department in recognizing and celebrating Fulya Pinar and Michael Berman. 
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Trending Globally Podcast

Why the West is thinking about the coup in Niger all wrong

Stephanie Savell Ph.D. '17 appeared on an episode of Trending Globally, a podcast from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown, to discuss how framings of the coup in Niger largely miss what’s really going on in the region. And worse — they might actually make it more difficult to bring peace and stability to this part of the world. Savell is an anthropologist, an expert on U.S.-Niger relations, and a co-director of the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute.
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Departmental Undergraduate Group (DUG) Leaders work with faculty and staff to coordinate events and activities in an effort to build a sense of community within the concentration. Delve into anthropology's 2023-24 student leadership panel to learn more about their academic and personal backgrounds!
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Meet the 2023-24 First-Year Graduate Cohort

The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to welcome its 2023-24 first-year graduate cohort to Brown! From socio-cultural and medical anthropology to linguistic and environmental, this year's cohort brings a full spectrum of research interests.
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During the summer months, thousands of high school students are taking up residence on campus, studying across the globe and participating online in Brown’s wide-ranging Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, research experiences and more.
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Daniel Jordan Smith appeared on an episode of Trending Globally, a podcast from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown, to discuss Obi's forecasted performance in the upcoming election and its impact on Nigeria's future. The interview draws from Smith’s newest book, "Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria."
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In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Irene Glasser, Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology to learn more about her experience working with Kelly Fan '23 in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between faculty and students on faculty research.
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The Department Welcomes New Faculty

The Department of Anthropology is delighted to welcome three new members who will officially begin their faculty appointments on July 1st. Meet Shanti Morell-Hart, Joshua Babcock, and Jordi Rivera Prince!
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Earth Day Spotlight: Sarah Davenport

Earth Day 2023 is Saturday, April 22nd! To celebrate, the department asked Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Davenport about her work in environmental and food sustainability.
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On Thursday, April 6th, students in Katherine Mason’s ANTH 1515: Anthropology of Mental Health course led a walking tour of three on-campus sites for the traveling exhibition, “Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project.”
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Kelly Fan '23

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Kelly Fan '23, a General Anthropology and Biology (Immunobiology Track) concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Mariz Kelada

Mariz Kelada's doctoral project "Behind the Seen" stems from two years of ethnographic research following the laboring lives of media's technical workers in Egypt.
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Women's History Month: Sarah Williams

Sarah Williams is a feminist scholar and medical anthropologist focused on reproductive rights and health. In this spotlight, she discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.
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Women's History Month: Nadje Al-Ali

As a scholar in feminist activism and gendered mobilization in the Middle East, Nadje Al-Ali discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.
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Alumni Spotlight: Alyce de Carteret, M.A. '13, Ph.D. '17

Alyce de Carteret completed her M.A. in Anthropology in 2013 with a thesis titled, "The Red Shift: Changing Tastes and their Implications at the Elite Maya Residence of El Diablo, Guatemala." She moved on to earn a Ph.D. in 2017, focusing again on Maya studies. In this spotlight, she delves into her career path after Brown.
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Chang He

In this spotlight, PhD student Chang He explains how her research engages with the anthropology of dance through a particular style that originated in Los Angeles in 1970.
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"What is, or should be, the role of solidaridad within the (transnationally adoptive) family?" Co-authors Jessaca Leinaweaver, Brown University, and Diana Marre, Autonomous University of Barcelona, aim to uncover the answer in a recent study.
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The Brown University Library and Brown University Center for Digital Publications have announced the selection of the next four scholarly works to be developed by CDS, including "Going through the Motions: Animations of Black Being in the Breaks" by Rebecca Carter, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Lauren Paradise '23

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Lauren Paradise '23, an Anthropological Archaeology concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: James Langan '24

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with James—a 2022-2023 DUG leader—to learn more about his experience in anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Selena Sheth '24

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Selena Sheth '24, a Medical Anthropology concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research. 
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Research Brief: Situated Caring for the Aged in Andean Peru

How do ordinary people repurpose the tools of demography? In a recent study, Jessaca Leinaweaver argues that Peruvian professionals caring for older people justify their committed work using demographic concepts.
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In the Field with Professor Myles Lennon

Five Brown undergraduate students were selected to spend the summer in northern California studying Black/Indigenous land stewardship, land-based community-building, and conducting ethnographic research. The 9.5 weeks of immersive, applied learning was part of a summer fellowship program created by Myles Lennon.
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