In this spotlight, Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Thimmig shares how her tribal collaborators invited her to a Sundance in North Dakota this summer.

The Watson School for International and Public Affairs and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University invite applications for a two-year joint Postdoctoral Research Associate position beginning in the Fall of 2027.

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship in bioarchaeology and/or forensic anthropology, appointment effective July 1, 2027.

During the month of June, faculty and graduate students from the Department of Anthropology were in Chiapas, Mexico for fieldwork as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Busiljá-Chocoljá (PABC).

Under the mentorship of Professor Katherine Mason, Coral will explore experiences of fragmentation in childbirthing and abortion among Puerto Rican women and provide an anthropological analysis of their postpartum care.

The Department of Anthropology announces its annual competition for the Watson Smith Prize for best student anthropology research paper. The cash award will be $250.00. If submissions merit it, there will be one prize given at the graduate student level and one prize given at the undergraduate student level. Prizes will be announced at Commencement in May. The deadline to submit is Friday, April 24 at 5PM.

In this spotlight, Iris Chen highlights her participation in an upcoming session at the Park Pride Parks and Greenspaces Conference in Atlanta. The conference brings together park stewards to discuss community-led stewardship and ecological resilience across metropolitan greenspaces.