Irene Glasser's ANTH 1301 "Anthropology of Homelessness" class takes a two pronged approach to the issue of homeless, discussing policy during its weekly meetings, and supplementing the classroom experience with community service work in downtown Providence.

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The Association for Africanist Anthropology proudly announces the 2015 AfAA award winners. After reviewing many excellent books, the Elliott P Skinner Book Award Committee selected Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (U Chicago Press, 2014) as its top choice.

Summer fieldwork leads to varied experiences, experimentation with new technologies

TAPS PhD student Patrick McKelvey has won the 2015 Wise-Susman Prize of the American Studies Association for his paper “Disemploying Prosthetics.”

The Department of Anthropology at Brown is delighted to welcome two new assistant professors: Parker VanValkenburgh and Sarah Besky.

Congratulations to Magnus Pharao Hansen.

Congratulations to Andrea Flores, who recently won the 2014-15 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.

David Kertzer, former provost at Brown, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography-autobiography.

Robert Preucel is selected as a Faculty Fellow for the Smithsonian Institution's Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology. He and another colleague are the first two faculty members in this new program.

Congratulations, Brian!

Bhrigu Singh receives Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for Post PhD research and his wins the Joseph W. Elder Prize for the best book of 2015 in the Indian social sciences.

Paula Dias and Magnus Hansen for their interdisciplinary opportunity awards during 2015-16 at IBES and JCB, and welcome to Crystal Ngo who will be in residence at the Haffenreffer with an interdisciplinary opportunity award.

"For the United States to live up to its ideals of equality and freedom, we must do better in valuing the lives, differences, and vulnerabilities of people of color. The first step forward is to name the problem."

Congratulations to Stephen Houston for being honored with 2015 PROSE national book award for art history and criticism for "The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence."

Congratulations to Paja Faudree for being honored with the 2014 book award from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

Winner of the 2014 Eric R. Wolf Prize awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Work, for his paper titled "Exceptional Protections: Contracts, Temporality, and Mexican Guestworkers."

Adia Benton has been interviewed and contributed to several outlets on the topic of Ebola.

NSF-Backed Scientists Raise Alarm Over Deepening Congressional Inquiry.

Listen to her radio interview, "Mistrust Fuels The Deadliest Ebola Outbreak on Record"

"Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes," published by Harvard University Press

"AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria," published by University of Chicago Press

"The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence," published by Yale University Press

Congratulations, David!

"When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Choices Challenged," published by Orient BlackSwan

"Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico," published by Duke University Press

Professor Kertzer talks to Dave Davies of Fresh Air about his new book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.

Professor Faudree discusses recent legislative attempts to ban the use of the Nazi word and symbols in Israel with Brooke Gladstone of On The Media.

"Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain," published by Duke University Press