The department caught up with Jordi Rivera Prince to learn the latest on The North Burial Ground Documentation Project.

In this spotlight, graduate student Radhika Moral catches up with the department after 20 months of fieldwork in Northeast India.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a special Valentine's Day feature, concentrators in the Department of Anthropology share what they love about being part of the community. 

In this spotlight, Parker VanValkenburgh delves into his work on the show "Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin" — now streaming on DisneyPlus!

The Deans’ Faculty Fellows program selects students for a two-semester appointment as Visiting Assistant Professors, following the completion of the Ph.D. degree. In this spotlight, Samee Sulaiman discusses his work as a Deans' Faculty Fellow in Anthropology focusing on health and war-related disabilities.

In this spotlight interview, fourth-year undergraduate Emily Cigarroa elaborates on her experience as a double concentrator in the Department of Anthropology and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.