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Lila Abu-Lughod, Career Award, Association for Feminist Anthropology
Jafari Allen, Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Alyssa Basmajian, Graduate Paper Prizes from Council on Anthropology and Reproduction and Research on US Health and Healthcare, Society of Medical Anthropology
Naveeda Khan, 2nd prize, Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Munira Khayyat, Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Maya Mikdashi, Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society…
Congratulations to Nan Rothschild on receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Archaeological Institute of America’s Felicia A Holton Book Award, for her book, co-authored with Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica MacLean, Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York (Columbia University Press, 2022).
Margaux Fitoussi is the Paloheimo and Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico this year. She is working on 'Minor Differences: A Study of Jewishness and Jewish-Muslim Relations'. For more information, including Margaux's scheduled lecture on November 8, see the SAR website.
Hannah Chazin's article, 'Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus,' appears in this month's issue of American Anthropologist. Read the article here.
Paige West and her long-time collaborator from Papa New Guinea, John Aini, received two major grants in support of their project "Deepening socio-spiritual and socio-ecological practice in Papua New Guinea." These grants allow them to continue to work with 23 Indigenous communities in New Ireland. The two foundations who provided these funds wish to remain anonymous. West and Aini have also received a grant from the Azimuth World Foundation for their project "Lovangai Island Green Belt" which supports their work with twelve villages on Lovangai Island to map their sea and land rights for a court…
The Department of Anthropology celebrates the Alyssa James's receipt of American Anthropology Association’ Setha Low Engaged Anthropology Award,
Congratulations to our recent doctoral graduates! They've won several postdoctoral fellowships. Read all about their amazing achievements.
Congratulations to Naor Ben-Yehoyada, who has been recognized this year with the 2023 Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award. The Arts and Sciences Graduate Council (ASGC) instituted this award in 2004 to commemorate excellence in the mentoring of PhD and MA students. This award is a student initiative; selections were made entirely by graduate student representatives from GSAS and affiliated schools based on student nomination letters spanning across all disciplines.
Congratulations to David Scott, who has recently been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2023-2024. In addition, his new book, 'The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue,' cowritten with Orlando Patterson and published by Polity Press, has just arrived.The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson…
Rosalind Morris's article, "The Ancestors Call from the Future: Ancestrally, Genealogy, Judgment," appeared this quarter in Comparative Literature Studies, volume 61, no 1
The Department of Anthropology congratulates Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Anthropology, on her election to the new class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more information, visit the Academy's website.
Deadline *EXTENDED*: 4:00pm; Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Questions concerning this research fellowship may be addressed to the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology:
Professor Naor Ben-Yehoyada, [email protected] (Fall)
Professor Maria José de Abreu, [email protected] (Spring)
Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj was recently interviewed for a two-episode series from The Dig, a weekly podcast presented by Jacobin magazine. Both episodes revolve around discussions of the content and background El-Haj's book: Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America, and the effects of post-9/11 war policy on American civilian identity.
The first episode - Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj - can be found here. The second episode - American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj - can be found here. More information about The Dig …
"Held in Suspense: Promise, Threat and Revocability as Modalities of Governance," guest-edited by Syantani Chatterjee (PhD '20), Luciana Chamorro Elizondo (PhD '20), and Fernando Montero (PhD '20), has been put into press by the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology as a special issue for March 2023. The volume additionally features an afterword by Professor Maria José de Abreu.
An introductory editorial describes the volume as "salient reading in a moment of overlapping geopolitical, economic, health and environmental crises – one in which ‘normality’ seems continually suspended…