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Our doctoral students have been getting their ideas into the world. Click here to get links to new publications by Amanda Althoff, Emily Hoffman, Aaamer Ibraheem, Saphe Shamoun, Rishav Thakur, and Emre Deniz Yurttaş
Doctoral students in social anthropology and archaeology have outdone themselves this year. We're celebrating their many awards and fellowships!
Maria José de Abreu publishes "How to Child a Future?" (response to article The Katechon and the Messias: Time, History and Threat in Brazil's Aspirational Fascism" by Bruno Reinhardt in Current Anthropology, Spring 2025).
Maria José de Abreu will give a talk on 'Not a Small Country: Cartographic Imaginations and Maritime Connections in Portugal’s Geopolitical Discourse' at this year's Asia-Africa, New Axis of Knowledge International Conference in Dakar, Senegal on June 11-14, 2025.
Maria José de Abreu publishes "Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists" in e-flux. You can read the article here.
Congratulations to Rosalind Morris, whose book, Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa, has been published by Columbia University Press.
Since the deaths of 78 informal miners in the town of Stilfontein, South Africa, Rosalind Morris has been arguing for a new approach to the question of informal mining in Africa, and the need for regional economic repair.
The department is proud to announce that Professor John Pemberton has been awarded a Faculty Recognition Award by the Dean of Social Sciences in honor of his contributions to study in the field.
Jorge Alejandro Rodriguez Solorano's paper “Betting on the State: Indigenous Legal Activism in Mexico’s Reforma Indigena (2024)” has been selected for this year’s Law & Humanities Workshop at Stanford University on June 9-10, 2025. Congratulations Jorge!
In 'Strange Abundance,' Catherine Fennell asks whether deconstruction can unlock resources abandoned in late industrial cities. Read and see the photo-essay here.
What does the landscape of extractivism look like? What is desire in and of the underground? Rosalind Morris reflects on the art and career of one of South Africa's pre-eminent painters, and the queer perspectivalism that he invented to describe his punctured and porous world.
Following the deaths of 78 informal miners in South Africa, Rosalind Morris published an analytic Op Ed in 'The Conversation' and was interviewed by Richard Poplack for the Daily Maverick. You can read her piece in 'The Conversation' here.
PhD candidate, Aamer Ibraheem, has published a photo essay on workers' perspectives on the Golan Heights in the new issue of the flagship journal Current Anthropology. You can read and view his essay, "Elevated: Attuned to White Things," here.
Congratulations to PhD candidate, Marini Thorne, who has been awarded a graduate research fellowship from the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects. The grant will underwrite ongoing research on gig work and new forms of labor in contemporary India.