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.

Brown Graduate School selected 11 PhD students for the Open Graduate Education program, which provides the flexibility and resources to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates.

Emily Button Kambic, PhD '15 is one of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2016-18

Congratulations to Bhawani Buswala on his Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Derek Sheridan, Chelsea Cormier McSwiggin, and Rama Srinivasan all awarded Interdisciplinary Opportunities for 2016-17. Congratulations!

Alyce receives 2016-17 Deans' Faculty Fellow award

Congratulations to Robert Kashow and Hannah Marshall.

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.