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Student Spotlight: Lola Aguiar '25

In this spotlight, the department spoke with Lola Aguiar, a member of the Class of 2025 and Anthropological Archaeology concentrator, about their senior thesis research.
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Alumni Spotlight: Kaetlyn Liddy '22

In this alumni spotlight, Kaetlyn Liddy '22 details what life has been like after graduating from Brown — including a position at NBC News as a newsroom coordinator.

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Fieldwork Update: North Burial Ground

The department caught up with Jordi Rivera Prince to learn the latest on The North Burial Ground Documentation Project.
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Student Spotlight: Radhika Moral

In this spotlight, graduate student Radhika Moral catches up with the department after 20 months of fieldwork in Northeast India.
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Meet the 2024-25 First-Year Graduate Cohort

The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to welcome its 2024-25 first-year graduate cohort to Brown! From family ties and kinship to Black Feminist Theory to global supply chains — this year's cohort brings a full spectrum of research interests to College Hill.
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Summer Update: Fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico

During the month of June, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Andrew Scherer, Associate Professor of Anthropology Shanti Morell-Hart, and graduate student Moisés Herrera Parra (Moi) were in Chiapas, Mexico for fieldwork as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Busiljá-Chocoljá (PABC).
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Watson Smith Prize 2024: Call for Submissions

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.
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Women's History Month: Katherine Mason

Katherine Mason is a medical anthropologist and co-founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). In this spotlight, she discusses what Women's History Month means to her and her research.
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Celebrating International Women's Day

International Women's Day is March 8th. In this feature, Jessaca Leinaweaver shares her recent work with the international organization SOS Children's Villages and her continuing research around the past, present, and future of gendered kinship.
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Research Apprenticeship Spotlight: Isabella Ferrera '24

In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Isabella Ferrera '24, an Anthropology and English concentrator, to learn more about what she looks forward to accomplishing in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.