Earth Day 2023 is Saturday, April 22nd! To celebrate, the department asked Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Davenport about her work in environmental and food sustainability.

On Thursday, April 6th, students in Katherine Mason’s ANTH 1515: Anthropology of Mental Health course led a walking tour of three on-campus sites for the traveling exhibition, “Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project.”

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Kelly Fan '23, a General Anthropology and Biology (Immunobiology Track) concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.

Mariz Kelada's doctoral project "Behind the Seen" stems from two years of ethnographic research following the laboring lives of media's technical workers in Egypt.

Sarah Williams is a feminist scholar and medical anthropologist focused on reproductive rights and health. In this spotlight, she discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.

The recent alum and his co-authors were able to trace a mass poisoning event in The Gambia, a small West African country, using anthropological and epidemiological methods.

As a scholar in feminist activism and gendered mobilization in the Middle East, Nadje Al-Ali discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.

Alyce de Carteret completed her M.A. in Anthropology in 2013 with a thesis titled, "The Red Shift: Changing Tastes and their Implications at the Elite Maya Residence of El Diablo, Guatemala." She moved on to earn a Ph.D. in 2017, focusing again on Maya studies. In this spotlight, she delves into her career path after Brown.

The department recently caught up with Pandemic Journaling Project Co-Founder and Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason to learn more about the March 2023 arrival of the traveling exhibition.

In this spotlight, PhD student Chang He explains how her research engages with the anthropology of dance through a particular style that originated in Los Angeles in 1970.

"What is, or should be, the role of solidaridad within the (transnationally adoptive) family?" Co-authors Jessaca Leinaweaver, Brown University, and Diana Marre, Autonomous University of Barcelona, aim to uncover the answer in a recent study.

The Brown University Library and Brown University Center for Digital Publications have announced the selection of the next four scholarly works to be developed by CDS, including "Going through the Motions: Animations of Black Being in the Breaks" by Rebecca Carter, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies.

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Lauren Paradise '23, an Anthropological Archaeology concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.

In 2023, two interdisciplinary courses selected by the Cogut Institute for its 2021 Collaborative Humanities Course Award will be taught in part by Paja Faudree (L) and Daniel J. Smith (R).

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with James—a 2022-2023 DUG leader—to learn more about his experience in anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.

In this interview, Sarah Davenport shares her fieldwork experience and research in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Selena Sheth '24, a Medical Anthropology concentrator, to learn more about her experience in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research. 

How do ordinary people repurpose the tools of demography? In a recent study, Jessaca Leinaweaver argues that Peruvian professionals caring for older people justify their committed work using demographic concepts.

Five Brown undergraduate students were selected to spend the summer in northern California studying Black/Indigenous land stewardship, land-based community-building, and conducting ethnographic research. The 9.5 weeks of immersive, applied learning was part of a summer fellowship program created by Myles Lennon.

Mark began fieldwork this summer at the ancestral archaeological village of Perage on San Ildefonso Pueblo lands.

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. recently announced that Professor Stephen Houston will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts beginning in April 2023.

The department caught up with Argenis to learn more about his work this summer as a Predoctoral Trainee in Anthropology.

In July 2022, Michael Berman joined Anthropology as a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities. His role serves as a joint position with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.

The department congratulates Mason and VanValkenburgh on their promotions, effective July 1, 2022.