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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Rebecca Bushee '27

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Rebecca Bushee, an Anthropological Archaeology 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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After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the Catholic Church could change and how Italians are responding to Pope Leo XIV.
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2025 Summer Course Options in Anthropology

Brown University's Summer Session offers students the opportunity to extend their undergraduate study into the summer term, allowing them to focus on a single subject area, take courses that are typically full during the rest of the academic year, catch up on progress to a degree, improve academic standing or explore new subjects of interest.
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The workshop, “In the Dissolution,” seeks to address climate change and its accompanying disasters as co-constitutive outcomes of the ongoing project of racial capital and toxic modernity.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Allyson Frisbie '26

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Allyson Frisbie, a History and Archaeology Double 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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Watson Smith Prize: 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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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Mustapha Kharbouch '27

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Mustapha Kharbouch '27, a Socio-Cultural Anthropology and International and Public Affairs concentrator, to learn more about what they look 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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Emeritus Spotlight: David Kertzer

Since trading in his positions as the Dupee University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies for that of Research Professor at Brown in July 2023, David Kertzer has continued his research and writing on Italian politics and religion. In this spotlight feature with the department, he discusses his latest projects and international endeavors.
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Course Spotlight: Language and Medicine in Practice

In this course spotlight, Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Paja Faudree give a brief synopsis of ANTH 1311: Language and Medicine in Practice.
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Balancing the rigorous demands of a doctoral program is challenging for the most motivated students, but for those keen to position themselves for profound impact, Brown’s Open Graduate Education program allows Ph.D. students to concurrently pursue a master’s degree in another field.
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Kin Folk Archive Quilt on Display at Sarah Doyle Center

On February 26, 2025, the Los Angeles based community work of Ashley J. May, second year Anthropology Ph.D. student, will go on display at the Sarah Doyle Center Gallery.  A special selection of books from her children’s book archive, the Lil’ Free Bird Library, will be on display alongside the Kin Folk Archive Quilt, a community quilt made for the project.
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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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