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Rosalind Morris will join the inaugural year (2023-2024) of fellows at the newly established Leuphana Institute for Advanced Study in Culture and Society, where she will complete work on her Guggenheim prize-winning project, 'Anatomy Lessons of a Miner.' For more information on the LIAS, an interdisciplinary project that bridges the Humanities and the Social Sciences, visit the Institute's website.

Congratulations to Nan Rothschild and her co-authors for winning this year's Society for American Archaeology Popular Book Award, for Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York (Columbia University Press).

Professor Lila Abu-Lughod was interviewed by Aiman Rizvi of Qatar Museums for the piece "Confronting Representations."

In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood…

Professor Simpson (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk) discusses the growing phenomenon and consequences of white women pretending to Native identity and falsely claiming the historical trauma inflicted upon Native people as their own. Read the story here.

On November 2nd, Professor Lila Abu-Lughod will give the annual Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto, Scarborough's Centre for Ethnography. Her lecture is titled "Acknowledgements of an Anthropologist." 

A brief summary of the lecture and other information related to the event can be found here. 

Prof. Abu-Lughod recent projects also include work with "On the Move," an exhibition on nomadic pastoralism, and a translation of her book "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?" into Arabic. A catalog for the "On the Move" exhibition is available here. 

In the latest issue of Columbia News, Catherine Fennell talks to Eve Glasberg about her new book project, 'Ends of the House: Racism and Remediation in the Late Industrial Midwest.' Read the story here.

Lila Abu-Lughod will participate on a panel, "Curator Talk" for the exhibit "On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism" at the National Museum of Qatar on October 27, 2022. She is also the co-editor of the accompanying Exhibition Catalogue.

Elizabeth Turk is a research associate and affiliated lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge; she earned her Master's in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia in 2013.

More information about the talk and panel participants can be found here. Other details about the "On the Move" exhibition and its forthcoming…

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…

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.