News
The department is thrilled to announce that Omer Shah has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Department of Anthropology, and that Hadeel Assali is the recipient of an ACLS postdoctoral fellowship as part of the "Emerging Voices on Environmental Justice" program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read about Xenia Cherkaev (Anthropology PhD, 2015) and Elena Tipikina's two-sided book about one-sided surfaces. It has two beginnings and no end – and it's bilingual, in English and Russian, comprised of two parallel texts, neither of which is a translation of the other. Published by Borey-Art, St. Petersburg and the Museum of Organic Culture, Kolomna. The story appears on our Alumni: Beyond Columbia page as part of this website's section devoted to Graduate Student Life.
Partha Chatterjee's new book, 'The Truths and Lies of Nationalism, as narrated by Charvak,' has just been published in India by Black Swan. It will be released in the US, in March 2022, by SUNY press. From the back cover: "While the Covid-19 pandemic was still raging in the autumn of 2020, I found, one evening, placed outside the door of my home in Kolkata, a sealed packet. Apparently, it had been left there sometime during the day. It did not come by post or any of the courier services that usually deliver mail because, if it had, someone would have rung the bell and I was home all day. In…
From the nomination: 'Why do so many nation states struggle to accommodate minorities? Mahmood Mamdani argues in Neither Settler Nor Native that the colonial “define and rule” attitude towards ethnic or religious minorities lives on in postcolonial states. Such politicisation of identity (you could even call it identity politics) often leads to extreme violence. Mamdani includes the US as a settler-colonial nation due to its treatment of Native Americans, who still do not have full constitutional protections. Some hope, Mamdani thinks, lies in the post-apartheid South African model…
Rosalind Morris's documentary film, 'We are Zama Zama,' will have its world premiere at the ENCOUNTERS International Film Festival in South Africa, June 10 - 21. 'This is a great honor,' says Morris. 'ENCOUNTERS is one of the premiere documentary festivals in the world. Equally important is the fact that the film, which is of and about lives in South Africa, will appear in that country first.'
The festival is geoblocked, which means only people resident in Africa can obtain tickets.
In this interview conducted by Lila Abu-Lughod on October 17, 2020, Palestinian artist Rana Bishara discusses the three artworks that appear on the covers of volume 41 of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as numerous other multidisciplinary and multimedia artworks she has made and exhibited from the 1990s to the present, focusing specifically on art as a form of political activism.
See the full article here, which is open to read until July.
Marilyn J. Ivy's article, 'This is (Not) a Gallows' appeared in the most recent 'Editor's Forum' of Cultural Anthropology.
Please see the following for both Undergraduate and Graduate course descriptions for Fall 2021 in the Anthropology Department.
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.