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.

In this spotlight, fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate Alyssa Bolster shares updates from her Fulbright-funded dissertation fieldwork in Peru.

In this spotlight, graduate student Paul Tamburro shares insights into his forthcoming co-authored book with Professor Stephen D. Houston and offers an update on his fieldwork at Tikal, Guatemala.

Eliza Ge, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, has received first place in the Peter K. New Student Research Competition for her M.A. paper entitled, "The Ethics of Trying: Patient-Funded Experimental Gene Therapy in China."

The Department of Anthropology and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women invite applications for the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, appointment to be effective July 1, 2026.

In this spotlight, the department speaks with Carolyne Nguyen about her Honors thesis in sociocultural anthropology.

In this spotlight, the department speaks with Maxwell Dassow about what drew him to anthropology—both in the classroom and through his role as a DUG leader.

The conference brought together leading and emerging scholars in a warm, collegial setting to reflect on the future of environmental anthropology.