New publications by our doctoral students

Our doctoral students have been getting their ideas into the world. Click here to get links to new publications by Amani Agbaria, Amanda Althoff, Emily Hoffman, Aaamer Ibraheem, Saphe Shamoun, Rishav Thakur, and Emre Yurttas.

July 02, 2025

Congratulations! The department recognizes the brave scholarship and create writing of our students--incoming and recently graduated.

Amani Agar co-authored this piece: Al-Sabi, Alia and  Amany Khalifa.  2024. “ Passage: Rehearsals in Linguistic Returns.” Journal for the Anthropology of North America 27(2):  31–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/nad.12190.

Amanda Althoff had a piece published in the Archaeolgical Review from Cambridge: Althoff, A., 2024. Powerful Worms: Insects in 19th century Yup’ik and Iñupiaq Material Culture. Archaeolgical Review from CambridgeHuman Insect Entanglement: Past, Present, and Future. 39: 157-17.

Emily Hoffman's poem, "Death Said," was selected by the Yale Review as "poem of the week" in May.

Aamer Ibrahmeem published a book chapter titled "Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere" (pp. 95-106) in the edited volume "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media", edited by Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar. 

Saphe Shamoun published this piece published in Allegra Lab, on the moment of December 8th in Syria and its aftermath.  
"Forever no more? Between new and old world." June, 2025 :
https://allegralaboratory.net/forever-no-more-between-new-and-old-words/.

Rishav Thakur had a piece published in a new collection, Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures, published by Berghahn: Thakur, R., 2025. Play of Eyes, and the Choreo-graphies of Cruising Futures in Guwahati, Assam. Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay. Berghahn. Pp. 162-177.

And incoming archaeology student, Emru Yurttas just published a new essay in Cambridge Archaeological Journal: Yurttaş ED. A Queer Feminist Perspective on the Early Neolithic Urfa Region: The Ecstatic Agency of the Phallus. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Published online 2025:1-15. doi:10.1017/S0959774325000083. Yurttas also appears as an author on a new piece in Science:  Yüncü, E., Doğu, A.K., Kaptan, D., Kılıç, M.S., Mazzucato, C., Güler, M.N., Eker, E., Katırcıoğlu, B., Chyleński, M., Vural, K.B. and Sağlıcan, E., 2025. Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Science388(6754), p.eadr2915.