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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…
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.
Congratulations to alumna Sarah E. Vaughn on the publication of her new book, 'Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation' (Duke University Press, 2022).
Congratulations to Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes who received this grant to support the Zora's Daughters Podcast and to Anna Reumert who received this grant to support a project on revolution and racial justice in Sudan! You can read more about the grant and projects here.
We start the new year with celebratory news! The Department congratulates doctoral students, Benjamin Liberatore, Stephanie Ratte and Fern Thompsett on their recently received fellowships to conduct field research. Read the news about their achievements and those of other recent awardees here.
The Department of Anthropology congratulates its two most recent doctoral degree recipients. Despite the pandemic, both Geoffery Aung and Jasmine Pisapia defended their dissertations in the Fall of 2021. Jasmine now takes up her position as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, and Geoff now joins the University of Vienna in a six-year postdoctoral position as as University Assistant. We wish them much success.