In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Rebecca Bushee, an Anthropological Archaeology 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.
After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the Catholic Church could change and how Italians are responding to Pope Leo XIV.
An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and identity shifts over time.
Brown University's Summer Session offers students the opportunity to extend their undergraduate study into the summer term, allowing them to focus on a single subject area, take courses that are typically full during the rest of the academic year, catch up on progress to a degree, improve academic standing or explore new subjects of interest.
The workshop, “In the Dissolution,” seeks to address climate change and its accompanying disasters as co-constitutive outcomes of the ongoing project of racial capital and toxic modernity.
In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Allyson Frisbie, a History and Archaeology Double 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.
A newly discovered altar, buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal, is shedding new light on the 1,600-year-old tensions between Tikal and the central Mexican capital of Teotihuacan.
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.
In this spotlight interview, the department caught up with Mustapha Kharbouch '27, a Socio-Cultural Anthropology and International and Public Affairs concentrator, to learn more about what they look forward to accomplishing in Anthropology's Research Apprenticeship Program. The Program aims to foster collaboration between students and faculty on faculty research.
Since trading in his positions as the Dupee University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies for that of Research Professor at Brown in July 2023, David Kertzer has continued his research and writing on Italian politics and religion. In this spotlight feature with the department, he discusses his latest projects and international endeavors.
In this course spotlight, Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Paja Faudree give a brief synopsis of ANTH 1311: Language and Medicine in Practice.