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The Department congratulates Lila Abu-Lughod, who has been awarded the 2023 Feminist Anthropology Career Award from the Association for Feminist Anthropology section of the American Anthropology Association. The award recognises outstanding lifetime contributions in the field of feminist anthropology. Read more about Professor Abu-Lughod's scholarship here.
Paige West's co-authored article "Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas" was published on November 14, 2023. The paper, for which West is the lead and corresponding author, brings together over 50 co-authors from over twenty countries to analyze and critique the imposition of metrics onto insitu biodiversity conservation. Read the article here.
Congratulations to Hannah Chazin, who has been selected for a 2024-2025 Heyman Center Faculty Fellowship. Read more about Hannah Chazin's research on human-animal relations in the Late-Bronze Southern Caucasus here.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Povinelli and the Karrabing Collective for being named in the top ten of the top 100 most influential people in the 2023 artworld by Art Review. This is the second year in a row that they have been received this honor! Read more here.
Lila Abu-Lughod, Career Award, Association for Feminist Anthropology
Jafari Allen, Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Alyssa Basmajian, Graduate Paper Prizes from Council on Anthropology and Reproduction and Research on US Health and Healthcare, Society of Medical Anthropology
Naveeda Khan, 2nd prize, Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Munira Khayyat, Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Maya Mikdashi, Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Maya Mikdashi, honorable mention, Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, Association for Feminist Anthropology
Nomi Stone, Middle East Section Book Award
For details see: https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/program/awards/
Congratulations to Nan Rothschild on receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Archaeological Institute of America’s Felicia A Holton Book Award, for her book, co-authored with Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica MacLean, Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York (Columbia University Press, 2022).
Margaux Fitoussi is the Paloheimo and Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico this year. She is working on 'Minor Differences: A Study of Jewishness and Jewish-Muslim Relations'. For more information, including Margaux's scheduled lecture on November 8, see the SAR website.
Hannah Chazin's article, 'Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus,' appears in this month's issue of American Anthropologist. Read the article here.
Paige West and her long-time collaborator from Papa New Guinea, John Aini, received two major grants in support of their project "Deepening socio-spiritual and socio-ecological practice in Papua New Guinea." These grants allow them to continue to work with 23 Indigenous communities in New Ireland. The two foundations who provided these funds wish to remain anonymous. West and Aini have also received a grant from the Azimuth World Foundation for their project "Lovangai Island Green Belt" which supports their work with twelve villages on Lovangai Island to map their sea and land rights for a court case focused on indigenous sovereignty. For more information, click here.
The Department of Anthropology celebrates the Alyssa James's receipt of American Anthropology Association’ Setha Low Engaged Anthropology Award,
Congratulations to our recent doctoral graduates! They've won several postdoctoral fellowships. Read all about their amazing achievements.
Congratulations to Naor Ben-Yehoyada, who has been recognized this year with the 2023 Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award. The Arts and Sciences Graduate Council (ASGC) instituted this award in 2004 to commemorate excellence in the mentoring of PhD and MA students. This award is a student initiative; selections were made entirely by graduate student representatives from GSAS and affiliated schools based on student nomination letters spanning across all disciplines.
Congratulations to David Scott, who has recently been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2023-2024. In addition, his new book, 'The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue,' cowritten with Orlando Patterson and published by Polity Press, has just arrived.The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual.
Rosalind Morris's article, "The Ancestors Call from the Future: Ancestrally, Genealogy, Judgment," appeared this quarter in Comparative Literature Studies, volume 61, no 1