In this spotlight, Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Thimmig shares how her tribal collaborators invited her to a Sundance in North Dakota this summer.

The Watson School for International and Public Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University invite applications for a two-year joint Postdoctoral Research Associate position beginning in the Fall of 2027.

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship in bioarchaeology and/or forensic anthropology, appointment effective July 1, 2027.

During the month of June, faculty and graduate students from the Department of Anthropology were in Chiapas, Mexico for fieldwork as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Busiljá-Chocoljá (PABC).

Under the mentorship of Professor Katherine Mason, Coral will explore experiences of fragmentation in childbirthing and abortion among Puerto Rican women and provide an anthropological analysis of their postpartum care.

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. The deadline to submit is Friday, April 24 at 5PM.

In this spotlight, Iris Chen highlights her participation in an upcoming session at the Park Pride Parks and Greenspaces Conference in Atlanta. The conference brings together park stewards to discuss community-led stewardship and ecological resilience across metropolitan greenspaces.

In this spotlight, fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate Alyssa Bolster shares updates from her Fulbright-funded dissertation fieldwork in Peru.

In this spotlight, graduate student Paul Tamburro shares insights into his forthcoming co-authored book with Professor Stephen D. Houston and offers an update on his fieldwork at Tikal, Guatemala.

Eliza Ge, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, has received first place in the Peter K. New Student Research Competition for her M.A. paper entitled, "The Ethics of Trying: Patient-Funded Experimental Gene Therapy in China."

The Department of Anthropology and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women invite applications for the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, appointment to be effective July 1, 2026.

In this spotlight, the department speaks with Carolyne Nguyen about her Honors thesis in sociocultural anthropology.

In this spotlight, the department speaks with Maxwell Dassow about what drew him to anthropology—both in the classroom and through his role as a DUG leader.

The conference brought together leading and emerging scholars in a warm, collegial setting to reflect on the future of environmental anthropology.

In this spotlight, the department spoke with America Marin '26 about her decision to concentrate in Linguistic Anthropology and Computer Science.

On September 12, the Department of Anthropology hosted its annual Fall Symposium. Faculty and students from across Brown came together to share their research, with this year’s program introducing a new pocket poster session from 12–1pm.

The Department of Anthropology is excited to welcome our 2025–26 first-year graduate students to Brown! This year’s cohort brings a vibrant array of research interests to College Hill—from reproductive health and gender studies to environmental pedagogy and more.

Congratulations to Ph.D. Students Alyssa Bolster and Matthew Ballance, and recent graduate Deborah Cherman ’25, on receiving Fulbright scholarships!

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this course spotlight, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Joshua Babcock offers a brief synopsis of ANTH 1940: Ethnographic Research Methods.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this spotlight, the department spoke with Blanca about her senior thesis.

In this spotlight, the department spoke with Joshua about his senior thesis research.

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.

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.

The department caught up with Jordi Rivera Prince to learn the latest on The North Burial Ground Documentation Project.

In this spotlight, graduate student Radhika Moral catches up with the department after 20 months of fieldwork in Northeast India.

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.