The Pandemic Journaling Project, led in part by PSTC anthropologist Kate Mason, is providing an online platform for people across the country to submit journal entries about their day-to-day experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Rebecca Louise Carter has been awarded, the 2020 Anthony Leeds Prize, for her book, "Prayers for the People: Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City."

Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast

Professor Mary Beaudry received her Ph.D from Brown University, Anthropology Department, 1980.

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 and Gender Studies, appointment to be effective July 1, 2021. 

Bastani's award-winning paper, Feeling at Home in the Clinic: Therapeutics and Dwelling in an Addiction Rehabilitation Center in Tehran, Iran, examines the experiences of women residing at a free drug rehabilitation center in the Iranian capital.

The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives - Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys whose parents had perished in the Holocaust.

Professor Carter wins the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book titled, Prayers for the People: Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

Anar Parikh produced a two-part series titled "Anthropology and/of Mental Health"

Professor Smith wins Guggenheim Fellowship for project on "Infrastructural Deficiency, State Complicity, and Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Nigeria."

The award is Honorable Mention in the 2020 John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.