News
Professor Maria José de Abreu was appointed as research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Federal University of Sao Carlos-Brazil, awarded by FAPESP Advanced Research. The research fellowship position will run throughout the summer of 2020.
Lila Abu-Lughod delivered the 21st B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lecture on ‘Gender, Violence, Security: Circuits of Power and the Muslim Question’ on 1 November 2019 at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, India.
A working paper titled 'The Courage of Truth: Making Anthropology Matter' based on Lila Abu-Lughod's inaugural lecture at KU Leuven was just posted on their website. Read the piece here-- https://soc.kuleuven.be/immrc/paper_files/papers
Professor Rosalind Morris has written a pandemic-themed poem published in South Africa's major independent newspaper Daily Maverick. Read the thought-provoking piece here-- https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-04-30-unlocked-poems-for-critical-times-part-nine/
Lesley A Sharp has been awarded the 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
For more information, please visit https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lesley-a-sharp/.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is 2019-20 Distinguished International Visitor at the Department of Geography, Durham University.
States of Extreme:
Body Politics, Quick Takes, States of Exception
The Department congratulates Professor Lesley Sharp for receiving the Royal Anthropological Institute Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems. The award recognizes Professor Sharp's longstanding contributions to anthropological studies of bioethics, and in particular, commends her recent publication, Animal Ethos: The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science (2019). The RAI noted that the publication "broadened the scope of bioethics...by developing new understandings of the morality of care in animal experimentation and interspecies relationships."
Rosalind Morris has been appointed Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand. The position will extend for 3 years.
The Department congratulates Vanessa Agard-Jones for winning a Lenfest "Great Teacher" Award for the year 2020-2021. Established in 2005 with a $12 million gift from the late University Trustee Gerry Lenfest (’58 LAW, ’09 HON) the awards “honor exceptional instruction and scholarship, with a special emphasis on the mentoring of students in the arts and sciences” and carry a $25,000 stipend for each of three years.
Elizabeth Povinelli's video "The Origins of Bigfoot" is featured as the Winter Special on Vdrome until 12 January 2020. Watch the video at http://www.vdrome.org.
Professor Brian Larkin will present the keynote lecture, "Generators and the Production of Technical Systems" at the Media Infrastructures in the Middle East conference, American University of Beirut. The conference will be held January 9-11, 2020.