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In her 'Afterword' to When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton, and a foreword by Pamela Palmater, Audra Simpson reflects on surviving and resisting settler colonialism.
Marilyn Ivy's essay, titled 'What the Writer Found There: David Peace's Occupied City' appears in boundary 2's dossier devoted to David Pierce's 'Tokyo Trilogy' and asks how one reads fiction about perpetually unsolved, unresolved historical crimes.
Lesley Sharp has received a Wenner-Gren research grant to pursue work on "Deathcare in Carceral America: Reformed Masculinity and the Post-Carceral Lives of Former Prison Hospice Volunteers."
Stamatopoulou-Robbins's study is part of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs series, dedicated to a calculation of direct and indirect consequences of war.
Congratulations to M. Constantine, Xenia Cherkaev, Chloé Faux, and Jasmine Pisapia, on their new postdoctoral fellowships!
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, has been selected by Princeton University's anthropology department to deliver the 2025 Clifford Geertz Lectures, to take place on March 20, 2025.
In the public sphere: Claudio Lomnitz publishes, "Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder" in the NYRB.
It's been an extraordinarily productive year for Columbia anthropologists, who have published several pathbreaking new books. From a rethinking of human-animal relations, to the moral philosophy of reparation after slavery, and from the role of gender violence in feminism and geopolitics to a new theory of the state in contemporary Mexico, with a meditation on language and ethics in deaf Nepal, our colleagues keep pushing the boundaries of the discipline.
Hannah Chazin published Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity' with the University…
Congratulations to E. Mara Green who published "Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal".
Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material…
Professors Zoë Crossland, Samuel F. Sanchez, Josie Volaravo Dominique, Kristina Guild Douglass were awarded a grant under the Alliance Trilateral Initiatives in Emerging Regions (TIER) Program for their project “Madagascar in the World: Inheritances and Uncertain Futures”.
Congratulations to Eben Hess, this year's recipient for departmental honors for the academic year of 2024.
Congratulations to Victor Meric, this year's recipient of the Dean’s Prize in Anthropology. The Dean's Prize in Anthropology is awarded annually to a General Studies student who has shown excellence in the study of anthropology.