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Slide 1: Shooting Tripoli Cancelled at Ellinikon Airport, Athens. © Naeem Mohaiemen
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Slide 2: 'Love in the NY Underground,' © John Pemberton
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Slide 3: Still from "The Mermaids, Or Aiden In Wonderland" (2018). © Karrabing Film Collective
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Slide 4: Rusty Rheingold beer cans
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Slide 5: 'Crossing the Road' © Benjamin Liberatore
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Slide 6: Machu Picchu © Terence D'Altroy
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Slide 7: Tholpava koothu shadow puppet, back stage, © Suyash Dwivedi
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Slide 8: 'Elvis is in the House' © John Pemberton
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Slide 9: 'The Cut' © John Pemberton
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Slide 10: Still from 'We are Zama Zama' @ Rosalind C. Morris
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Slide 11: 'Mount Sinai-St.Catherine' @ Hadeel Assali
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Slide 12: Block Cave Mandible @ Hannah Chazin
WELCOME
The Department of Anthropology, established by Franz Boas in 1902, is the oldest in the United States and remains a center of disciplinary innovation and theoretical leadership. The department’s faculty members are actively engaged in research and writing about issues of both pressing contemporary relevance and historical significance. Our scholars work in regions and language traditions around the globe and in the United States, as do our students. We operate doctoral degree programs in both sociocultural anthropology and archaeology, and host two distinct MA programs, one in sociocultural anthropology and the other in museum anthropology. In addition, we offer rigorous undergraduate training toward both the major and the concentration, and welcome students from other disciplines into our classes. More.
News
Nadia Abu El-Haj publishes new book, 'Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War in Citizenship in Post-9/11 America'
In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood.
Audra Simpson publishes Op-Ed in the Boston Globe about Native identity theft
Professor Simpson (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk) discusses the growing phenomenon and consequences of white women pretending to Native identity and falsely claiming the historical trauma inflicted upon Native people as their own. Read the story here.
Lila Abu-Lughod to Give Annual Distinguished Lecture at the Centre for Ethnography at the University of Toronto Scarborough
On November 2nd, Professor Lila Abu-Lughod will give the annual Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto, Scarborough's Centre for Ethnography. Her lecture is titled "Acknowledgements of an Anthropologist."
A brief summary of the lecture and other information related to the event can be found here.
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
OUR RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
The research interests of our faculty and students cover a broad range of theoretical and empirical questions, and our scholarly and personal engagements traverse an equally wide range of geopolitical and territorial domains. Broadly speaking, these interests can be grouped under the thematic headings indicated by the icons below. On the pages linked to the icons, you will find: a brief description of the issues and the Department’s historical relationship to them; a list of faculty members whose research and writing addresses these themes; a list of courses covering related questions and problems; and select publications on these subjects by our faculty members.
OTHER FACULTY ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENTS
