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

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

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