Current Anthropology recently published a special issue, Populism: Anthropological Approaches, co-edited by University of Chicago Professor William T.S. Mazzarella, Robert Samet, and Kabir Tambar.  

This issue arises from a Wenner-Gren symposium organized by Mazzarella, Samet, and Tambar in March 2023. Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford, said the work mobilizes allies “to cultivate an anthropological approach to populism that could serve as an alternative to those advanced by pundits and mainstream political scientists.”

Read the special issue here, starting with a foreword from Rutherford. 

Professor E. Summerson Carr will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University during the 2026-27 academic year. CASBS annually invites a diverse, cross-disciplinary cohort of distinguished thinkers to explore some of our world’s most challenging questions and problems, advancing our understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions.

Learn more about the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences . . .

Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Caribbean. Visit History on the Edges: Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Caribbean at The Joseph Regenstein Library through August 21, 2026. Curated by Ryan Cecil Jobson, Department of Anthropology, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Department of English, and Rachel Chery, Department of Music, this exhibition traces a life in Caribbean letters from Trouillot’s earliest writings through his enduring scholarly contributions and legacy at the University of Chicago.

Learn more here . . .