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Faculty Anthropology Announcements
McKim Marriott, world-renowned scholar of India and caste, 1924-2024
Prof. Emeritus McKim Marriott, a leading University of Chicago anthropologist whose ethnographic research in India revolutionized the study of the cas...
July 25, 2024![Russ Tuttle](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-05/tuttle-feature_0.jpg?itok=cY4EFCKf)
Faculty Anthropology Announcements
A ‘stickler for the truth,’ Russell Tuttle’s career is measured in groundbreaking research and celebrated mentorship
The professor of anthropology is retiring after six decades at UChicago. By Sarah Steimer A professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology,...
May 16, 2024![Bian and Jobson](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-02/bian-jobson.jpg?itok=PZ-z2cAr)
Faculty Anthropology Psychology Announcements
2024 Dean’s Early Career Research Awards
By Aubrey Christofersen The Annual Dean’s Early Career Research Awards have been announced. Now in their second year, the awards are supported thro...
April 21, 2024![2023 artwork from the neubauer collegium titled archive for 57 people by Dan Peterman](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-02/ea4c22b2-ec9c-fa62-c5ea-da66e7f7ad89.jpg?itok=UwhQn9t5)
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2024-25 Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Projects Announced
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected eight new faculty-led research projects to launch July 1, 2024. “These new faculty rese...
February 14, 2024![Shannon Dawdy](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-09/dawdy_1.png?itok=RwoGUqB1)
Science - Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them?
Around 500 C.E., a new government arose in the community now called Río Viejo, near the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was once the largest ...
September 10, 2023![Kamala Russell](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-09/kamala-russell-feature.jpg?itok=W5GDKkHi)
Exploring the embodied and interactive use of language in lived spaces
Kamala Russell’s fieldwork looks beyond traditional methods of tracking interpersonal interactions. “What does it mean to be sitting in a room with...
September 10, 2023![Scene from Familiar](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-09/takabvirwa2_0.jpg?itok=O2h_V3oc)
Anthropology’s Kathryn Takabvirwa served as cultural consultant for the Steppenwolf production of Familiar
When Danya Taymor was hired to direct Steppenwolf’s new comedy, Familiar by Danai Gurira, she knew that she had to get the cultural elements exactly r...
September 10, 2023