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Maria José de Abreu has written a piece for Society of Cultural Anthropology, entitled "Rabble-Rousers Without Exception." To read the piece, please follow the link here.
Paige West has won a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. For more information, visit their website here.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli has been interviewed in Columbia News, for her new graphic novel entitled The Inheritance. You can read the full interview, here.
The Anthropology department congratulates Christopher Thompson for being selected as the GS Valedictorian. Tune into GS Class Day April 28 at 11 a.m. to hear and celebrate him! For more information, please follow the link.
Current, by Rosalind C. Morris is a verse sequence of 7 poems that undertakes a meditation on capital punishment. The images accompanying the poems, by Carrie Mae Weems, are from the series 'All the Boys,' and are reproduced by gracious permission of the artist and the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli has a new piece in Noema Magazine, which is published by the Berggruen Institute. You can find the article, entitled "A Fire on the Ancestors' Road to Bamayak" here.
Victoire Mandonnaud and 'The Victories' released their debut album, 'The very best of' this week. You can listen to it on Apple Music or Spotify.
Application Deadline Now Extended: Monday, March 31, 2021
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The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the Ella Deloria Undergraduate Research Fellowships: departmentally funded ethnographic research fellowships for Columbia Anthropology majors pursuing fieldwork during the summer between their junior and senior years. Offered since 2010, the fellowships are intended for research in preparation for writing a senior thesis or in connection with an independent study project. Awards will be made based on the quality of an…
Please follow the link below to find complete course descriptions for the Summer 2021 semester in the Department of Anthropology.
Professor Paige West's work has been featured on Columbia University's Earth Institute's blog, 'State of the Planet.' The piece outlines the history of her work, with special emphasis on her recent nomination as a part of the “Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World the World Needs to Know About.” You can read more here about Professor West's work in Papua New Guinea on indigenous sovereignty and biodiversity efforts.
Yvette Christiansë, Zaid Jabri and Rosalind Morris, are thrilled to announce their receipt of a major award from the Sloan Foundation for their new opera, ‘Southern Crossings.’ The Foundation announced its grant for the opera this February. The project will be housed at Barnard College’s Africana Studies, which will also develop an educational program to accompany the opera, slated for production in late 2021.
“The material support from Sloan, and the confidence that it expresses in our project, makes it possible for us to now take our idea, realized in the musical score and the libretto,…
Claudio Lomnitz's new memoir, Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation,' was mentioned in this week's New Yorker, as part of the 'Briefly Noted' section. Lomnitz's memoir has been receiving broad critical acclaim, and has been the subject of several talks and conversations: at the Harvard University Bookstore, with Jean Comaroff; at the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, with Jesús Velasco; and at Skylight Books in LA, with Graciela Montaldo.
On Wednesday, February 24, Claudio Lomnitz will be in conversation with Claire Messud at the Brooklyn Public Library…
Elizabeth A. Povinelli has published her graphic memoir The Inheritance with Duke University Press. "In her graphic memoir... Povinelli explores the events, traumas, and powers that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents' flight from their village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of their knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own Catholic childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s and 1970s, Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence, dislocation, racism…