News Archive | Anthropology | The University of Chicago

Sep 21, 2023 - Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa
Aug 23, 2023 - An archaeologist talks trash
Aug 3, 2023 - Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints
Aug 3, 2023 - Working the Difference
Aug 2, 2023 - Footprints from Fossils to Gallows
Jul 18, 2023 - Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination
May 12, 2023 - Tracing Relations: Cultivating Connections Between Blackness and Indigeneity at UChicago
May 10, 2023 - Cultures & Knowledge Workshop: Natacha Nsabimana
Apr 21, 2023 - Remembering Nancy Munn, Emerita Professor of Anthropology
Apr 19, 2023 - The Problematics of Museum Sovereignty: Questions of Legibility and Representation
Apr 12, 2023 - Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them?
Mar 28, 2023 - Captive Passages: Empire, Race, and Law in the Forever War
Mar 21, 2023 - Ryan Jobson Receives 2023 SSRC Faculty Seed Grant
Mar 14, 2023 - Language in Culture
Mar 3, 2023 - How UChicago undergraduates stay in the moment with futurist thinking
Mar 2, 2023 - Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
Feb 8, 2023 - A New Book on Tamil Cinema Offers Anthropological Answers to the Question, What Is an Image?
Feb 8, 2023 - Dean’s Early Career Research Award Recipients Announced
Feb 8, 2023 - Exploring the embodied and interactive use of language in lived spaces
Jan 26, 2023 - Cultures & Knowledge Workshop: Shannon Dawdy
Nov 29, 2022 - Memorial videos are now available: Sahlins, Fogelson, and Silverstein
Nov 4, 2022 - Celebrating Michael Silverstein
Oct 17, 2022 - Celebrating Ray Fogelson
Jul 20, 2022 - Prof. Mareike Winchell publishes new book "After Servitude"
Jul 4, 2022 - Ideologies of Design: Metapragmatics, Mediation, Materiality
Mar 30, 2022 - Marshall Sahlins Symposium
Mar 14, 2022 - Ghassan Hage: Lenticular Ontologies Event
Mar 3, 2022 - Ryan Jobson, Elizabeth Chatterjee, and Victoria Saramago receive Neubauer Collegium award for their project: "Fossil Capitalism in the Global South"!
Nov 29, 2021 - Summerson Carr is the new President Elect of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Nov 29, 2021 - Darryl Li wins the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe for The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire and the Challenge of Solidarity (2020, Stanford University Press).
Nov 29, 2021 - Sue Gal and Judy Irvine win the 2021 Sapir Prize of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology for Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life (2019, Cambridge University Press).
Sep 17, 2021 - Prof. Russell Tuttle inducted into Alumni Hall of Fame at the Ohio State University Marion
Aug 2, 2021 - Prof. Shannon Dawdy creates Covid time capsule with undergraduates
Jun 21, 2021 - Chicago Foodcultura Clarion is published in Chicago Reader
May 13, 2021 - Raffaella Taylor-Seymour has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars
Apr 30, 2021 - Hiroko Kumaki Wins Richard Saller Dissertation Prize
Apr 22, 2021 - Prof. Karin Knorr Cetina has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Apr 7, 2021 - Emeritus Faculty Member Marshall Sahlins Has Passed Away
Apr 2, 2021 - Prof. Julie Chu publishes Public Commentary
Feb 24, 2021 - Prof. Joseph Masco publishes new book "The Future of Fallout and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making"
Jan 27, 2021 - Prof. Costas Nakassis and Dr. Meghanne Barker edit special issue of the journal Semiotic Review
Dec 14, 2020 - Prof. Stephan Palmié named the Norman & Edna Freehling Professor
Nov 20, 2020 - Giving Tuesday 2020
Oct 7, 2020 - Prof. Susan Gal publishes new book "Signs of Difference"
Aug 28, 2020 - Hilary Leathem named a 2020-2021 Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellow at the American Philosophical Society
Jul 20, 2020 - Faculty Member Michael Silverstein Has Passed Away
Jun 4, 2020 - Departmental Statement on Police Violence
Jun 1, 2020 - Prof. Ryan Jobson interviews PhD alum Yarimar Bonilla
May 21, 2020 - Prof. Susan Gal Wins 2020 Quantrell Award
May 21, 2020 - Graduating Senior Iris Jacobs is Finalist for Research Prize
May 4, 2020 - Gretchen Pfeil Wins Richard Saller Dissertation Prize
Apr 7, 2020 - Hiroko Kumaki Named a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows
Mar 25, 2020 - Prof. Julie Chu and Colleagues Given Neubauer Collegium Award
Mar 16, 2020 - Monday Seminars Postponed
Mar 16, 2020 - Emeritus Faculty Member Russell Tuttle Honored in Ohio State Marion's Alumni Hall of Fame
Feb 18, 2020 - Alumna Maira Hayat Wins 2020 Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies
Jan 30, 2020 - Emeritus Faculty Member Ray Fogelson Has Passed Away
Jan 30, 2020 - Emerita Faculty Member Nancy Munn Has Passed Away
Jan 16, 2020 - Professor Alan Kolata and Colleagues Awarded Neubauer Collegium Grant
Nov 14, 2019 - Alumna Sarah Kautz Wins 2019 NYS Historic Preservation Award
Jun 17, 2019 - BA Thesis Prize Winners Announced
Jun 3, 2019 - Anthropology Faculty Supports GSU
May 20, 2019 - Three Undergrads Win Departmental Summer Scholarships
Oct 9, 2018 - Ji Yea Hong Wins Dying and Bereavement Doctoral Student Paper Prize
Jun 2, 2018 - Maira Hayat wins Association for Feminist Anthropology prize
Jun 1, 2018 - Teaching Fellow Andrea Ford Wins Feminist Forum Professor Award
Feb 28, 2018 - New Jenkins Endowment for Dissertation Research
Jan 1, 2018 - 'Signs and Society' issue published in honor of Professor Michael Silverstein
Oct 2, 2017 - Professor François Richard named faculty fellow of CISSR
Oct 2, 2017 - Professor Alan Kolata awarded two grants
Oct 1, 2017 - Professor William T.S. Mazzarella publishes new book 'The Mana of Mass Society'
Sep 1, 2017 - Professor John Kelly appointed to named professorship
Aug 11, 2017 - Emeritus Professor Judith Farquhar Wins Traditional Asian Medicine Award
Jun 30, 2017 - Anthropology students win dissertation and thesis prizes
Jun 26, 2017 - Professor Joe Masco Wins Faculty Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
Apr 1, 2017 - Interview with Sarah Green at Mobilizing Gender Conference
Apr 1, 2017 - Interview with Éric Fassin at Mobilizing Gender conference
Mar 1, 2017 - Professor Kaushik Sunder Rajan publishes new book 'Pharmocracy'
Nov 1, 2016 - Graduate student Janet Connor wins Society for Linguistic Anthropology essay prize
Aug 30, 2016 - Professor William Mazzarella edits and introduces Kersy Katrak’s poetry collection
Aug 11, 2016 - Passing of Emeritus Professor Paul Friedrich
Apr 5, 2016 - Justin Richland Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Apr 1, 2016 - Professor Constantine Nakassis Releases New Book, 'Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India'
Jan 24, 2016 - Professor Judith Farquhar appointed Faculty Director of Center in Beijing
Jan 4, 2016 - Professor Alice Yao Releases New Book, 'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China'
Nov 19, 2015 - Professor Ralph Nicholas Releases New Book 'Thirteen Festivals: A Ritual Year in Bengal'
Oct 1, 2015 - Passing of Professor Raymond T. Smith
Jun 9, 2014 - Susan Gal Awarded Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching