Yung Hung Ching Cambodia Community Fund Will Support Multidisciplinary Research
Better understanding how people respond to current and impending environmental change caused by human activities in the complex ecosystem of the Meko...
January 15, 2025
“Sensing Climate Change in the Blood,” by Sanghamitra Das
Sanghamitra Das, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, recently published “Sensing Clim...
December 16, 2024
Faculty Anthropology Announcements
The Petro-state Masquerade from Ryan Cecil Jobson
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology, recently published The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in ...
January 7, 2025
Faculty Anthropology Announcements
Alan L. Kolata receives $450,000 commitment for research in Cambodia
Alan L. Kolata, the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, recently received a multi-year commitment totaling $450,000 to supp...
December 4, 2024
Faculty Anthropology Announcements
Shannon Lee Dawdy on chaos, trauma, and the 2024 US election
Shannon Lee Dawdy discussed the 2024 U.S. general election with the New York Times, examining the current moment through the lens of 2020’s electoral ...
November 5, 2024
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
Faculty Anthropology Psychology Announcements
2024 Dean’s Early Career Research Awards
By Aubrey ChristofersenThe Annual Dean’s Early Career Research Awards have been announced. Now in their second year, the awards are supported through ...
January 13, 2025
Announcements Faculty Anthropology Comparative Human Development History Sociology
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 research...
January 13, 2025
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 ...
August 12, 2024
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...
August 12, 2024