New find pries open an enduring question: why two ancient superpowers abruptly turned from diplomacy to brutality.

On March 19, 2021, Professor Lina Fruzzetti, and Dr. Ákos Östör, at Wesleyan University, discussed the nuances of filmmaking and storytelling within the field. Until March 31, 2021, Fruzzetti and Östör’s latest jointly created film, called “In My Mother’s House,” is available for online streaming as part of the Mother Tongue Film Festival.

The Department of Anthropology and the Pembroke Center are delighted to announce our appointment of Sarah Williams as the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, beginning July 1, 2021.

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Ieva Jusionyte will be joining the Anthropology Department and the Watson Institute as of January 1, 2021. She will hold the Watson Family Associate Professorship of International Security and Anthropology. 

‘Right Now Feels So Long and Without Any End in Sight.’ This headline from the New York Times is taken from an excerpt of one of the 700+ digital diaries that make up the Pandemic Journaling Project, a collaboration between Assistant Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason and her UConn colleague, Sarah Willen. As the NYT writes, "It may be the most complete record of our shifting moods in this isolating year."

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

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.

William S. Simmons, professor of anthropology at Brown University, passed away on June 2, 2018.

Brown historian sheds light on forgotten papal history.

Andi Wright spoke at the November 2017 Research Matters event.

Bhrigupati Singh discusses secularity, religion, and quality of life in rural India

Noted SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell joins actress Carol Burnett, musician John Legend, playwright Lynn Nottage, immunologist James Allison and other renowned leaders in various fields as a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Lynnette Arnold will be joining us for two years, beginning in July, as the Cogut Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistic Anthropology. Dr. Arnold will teach courses in linguistic anthropology and engaged scholarship, contributing to our track in the Engaged Scholars Program and working closely with the Swearer Center.