The Anthropology of Homelessness, ANTH 1301, taught by Irene Glasser, PhD, has been offered yearly through the Anthropology Department since the spring of 2014. This year, the class created a guide that can be used to help individuals in Rhode Island obtain permanent and affordable housing.

The Department of Anthropology caught up with Aisha, an undergraduate student studying Health and Human Biology, to learn more about her research on medical racism and structural violence embedded in medical institutions.

Caleb Ellis '24, Medical Anthropology concentrator, reflects on learning how the history of medicine is intertwined with histories of race and white supremacy through a Spring 2022 course with Professor Sarah Williams.

In Spring 2022, Jessica Katzenstein and three other Anthropology PhD Candidates successfully defended their dissertations. In this spotlight interview, Jessica delves into her research topic and explains more about her dissertation.

Anthropology trainee Argenis Hurtado Moreno has been named a 2022 Ford Foundation PreDoctoral Fellow. Students who receive this three year fellowship have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and are committed to a career in teaching and research in higher education.

Adelaida Tamayo was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) which will support her research advancement.

Join the Department of Anthropology on Friday, April 22nd for Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations!

The Department of Anthropology caught up with Courtney, an undergraduate student studying Medical Anthropology, to learn more about her research on Black doulas in South Carolina.  

In this spotlight interview, Melanie Kim discusses writing her debut book "Oil Paper Family." It tells the true story of her grandfather, Young Bok, and highlights Korea’s difficult and oppressive past through his eyes. The story is shaped by Young Bok's love for family and his dreams of becoming a doctor.

In March 2022, the Society for American Anthropology (SAA) hosted its first hybrid conference since 2020. A handful of Anthropology graduate students and faculty traveled to Chicago to present, network, and/or view new research from colleagues. This brief captures graduate student Morgan Clark's SAA presentation on her collaborative findings from an excavation at La Cuernavilla, Guatemala.  

Katherine Mason recently published "Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood," which focuses on diagnosis, treatment, and experience of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) among birthing mothers.

A new grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will allow Mason and Co-Principal Investigators Andrea Flores (Brown University) and Sarah Willen (UCONN) to follow a cohort of first-generation college students and their parents over a period of two years using the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) platform to collect monthly journal entries.

A generous gift from Martha and her husband Artemis Joukowsky made possible the creation of Brown’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

Adjunct Lecturer Irene Glasser, in collaboration with colleagues in Brown’s School of Public Health, reflects on research and advocacy over the years in, "Provide Help for Homeless to Quit Smoking" published in the Providence Journal on November 20, 2021.

Brown University invites applications for a 2-year, non-renewable International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology or related field at the intersection of language and health, with a theoretically and ethnographically grounded approach to studying language in social contexts particularly relating to health, illness, medicine, or care, broadly understood.  

Congratulations Andrea on your new book! "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America,"

Brown University coverage of Professor Lennons' testimony on equity in renewable energy before U.S. House committee.

Congratulations Myles!
Myles's remarks begin at 28:21

Professor Rubertone's 90-minute podcast interview on her book, Native Providence, for the New Books in Native American Studies. The series is part of the larger New Books Network.

Congratulations Prof. VanValkenburgh for receiving this award!

Nigeria's 'Prosperity gospel' Pentecostal Churches May Reinforce Inequalities

Over the past few decades in Nigeria, many millions of people have joined Pentecostal churches, and the most popular brand in recent years is known as the ‘prosperity gospel’. But while these hugely popular churches promise economic as well as spiritual rewards, they are also controversial. Even as their leaders condemn corruption, critics see these churches as contributing to a political culture that perpetuates inequality.

Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör's ethnographic film, "In My Mother's House," inspired Mariel Tabachnick to write her story "In My Grandmother's House".