Learn more about Anthropology’s 2025-26 Teaching Fellows. Jiyea Hong is a scholar of media, environment, and ethnic politics in contemporary China. Myungji Lee is a sociocultural anthropologist from Seoul whose research explores the intersection of religion, politics, and gender in contemporary Türkiye/Turkey. Hanna Pickwell is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work investigates consumption, value(s), ethics, affect, and environmental sensibilities in urban China. Shubham Shivang is an anthropologist and a media scholar of contemporary South Asia.

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New research led by Madeleine McLeester, PhD'17 (Anthropology) and published in Science, found that an area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. Read about this discovery in the New York Times.

Scholars including Michael Dietler bring novel data and perspectives to the study of economic, cultural, and territorial networks in the Mediterranean before the region was connected by Rome in Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia (900-200 BCE).

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