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."