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Danielle Carr, Anthropology PhD and newly appointed Assistant Professor at UCLA, published an essay in the September 20 edition of the New York Times, entitled 'Mental Health is Political.' Concerned with the diagnosis of depression in the aftermath of the pandemic, the article grows out of her doctoral disseratation research on psychiatric care in the age of neuroscience. You can access the essay here.
Professor Lesley Sharp, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically-Induced Harm, awarded by the Society for Medical Anthropology "for excellence in explorations of the limits of healing practices, broadly defined, to explore the limits of health care including harms and injustices emergent from the healing endeavor.” The award has been given for a recent article of hers that appeared in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, “Death and Dying in Carceral America: The Prison Hospice as Inverted Space of Exception.” To learn more about the prize, please click here.
Professor Partha Chatterjee was awarded the Grain of Sand award for 2022 by the American Political Science Association "for decades of interpretive, interdisciplinary research, teaching and mentorship on nationalism, postcolonial theorizing and institution-building in South Asian political and social studies." The award will be presented at the APSA conference in Montreal on September 15-18, 2022.
Alyssa James & Brendane Tynes's interview entitled "Perspectives in Anthropology: Radical Authenticity and Self Care in Public Scholarship", has been published in The New Florida Journal of Anthropology. Read the interview here.
Brendane Tynes has published a chapter entitled “‘Sometimes There Just Ain’t No Magic in This’: Black Women at the Nexus of Gender Violence and Erasure” in the edited volume, Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional Approaches (NYU Press, 2022). Purchase the volume here.
Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes have won a Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship. The Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship is awarded by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, and provides funded opportunities for graduate students to explore a project in the context of public humanities. During the funding period, students attend bi-weekly workshops and public events, and organize a panel about their project in the end-of-year series Building Publics.
'We are Zama Zama,' a documentary film by Rosalind Morris about the plight of illegalized migrants scavenging n South Africa's ruined gold mines, has been acquired by BBC for broadcast on its Africa Eye series. The television broadcast version has been re-edited, translated and dubbed into Swahili, Hausa and French for continental distribution in Africa, which starts May 31.
Commendations for the classes of 2020-2022! We congratulate the following PhD and MA students for earning degrees in these most recent, difficult years.
We are celebrating the award of GSAS Traveling fellowships for dissertation field research to Saphe Shamoun, Greg Odum and Rishav Thakur.
Gustav Kalm received a write-up fellowship with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle in Law and Anthropology, a yearlong fellowship from the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, and a dissertation research grant from the National Science Foundation in Law and Science.
Zohar Elmakias has been awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding to facilitate the completion of projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Elmakias has been recognized as one of fifty exceptional awardees, selected from a pool of over 800 applicants.
Congratulations to: Jenny Ni, Emily Hoffman, Alyssa James, Max Grear and Aamer Ibraheem. All have received Wenner-Gren Foundation fellowships for doctoral dissertation field research. Emily Hoffman, Rishav Thakur, and Chazelle Rhoden are also the recipients of summer field research grants from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. We celebrate their achievements.
Congratulations to Chloé Faux, who has been awarded a Kluge Cusp Graduate Mentor Fellowship for 2022-23.
Two of our alumni have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships. Stefan Tarnowski is the recipient of an Early-Career Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, at the University of Cambridge, for a term of 4 years. Omer Shah has received the Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology at Pomona College.
For more information on other awards and honors received by our graduate students, visit the page dedicated to celebrating their achievements here.
Congratulations to Catherine Fennell on her award, which is given to support Schools’ diversity plans, by advancing the career success of outstanding faculty who have made a recent, significant contribution to their field, and who contribute to the diversity goals of the University by their research, teaching, and mentoring activities. The Office of the Provost announcement can be read here.
Congratulations to Rosalind Morris who has recently been awarded as a Guggenheim Fellow for 2022. You can find more about Morris’ work here and here.
(New York, NY) On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants, these successful applicants were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Congratulations are in order for António Tomás (PhD '12), who has just published his monograph, 'In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda,' based on his dissertation research.