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Jun. 25, 2020
Prof. Tejaswini Ganti on nepotism in Bollywood for the Times of India
Jun. 22, 2020
NYU Anthropology supports Black Lives Matter
Apr. 27, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Susan Antón on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Apr. 27, 2020
Profs. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp win an NYU Catalyst Grant for work on disability in a time of COVID-19
Apr. 24, 2020
NYU Anthropology team demonstrates how teeth are “the archive of life”
Mar. 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
Mar. 02, 2020
Prof. Justin Pargeter featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown: Humanity’s Ancient Ancestors”
Jan. 27, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Dávila on winning NYU’s 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award
Jan. 21, 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Jane Anderson on a new NEA grant to support Passamaquody “Grandfathers' Songs”
Jan. 02, 2020
New memorial essays for Prof. Tom Abercrombie in Cultural Anthropology
Nov. 15, 2019
The AAA’s Association for Feminist Anthropology awards its Career Award to Prof. Rayna Rapp
Oct. 31, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Nathalie Peutz on winning the AAA’s MES Book Award for “Islands of Heritage” (Stanford 2018)
Oct. 22, 2019
NPR features Prof. Arlene Dávila and the LatinX Edit-a-Thon
Oct. 16, 2019
Congratulations to Aaron Glass (PhD 2006) on winning the Ames Award from the Council for Museum Anthropology for “Story Box”
Sep. 16, 2019
Follow Prof. Jane Anderson’s recent work on language revitalization efforts with the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine on NPR
Aug. 21, 2019
Prof. Radu Iovita debunks the “Neanderthal genius” argument in new study
Aug. 20, 2019
Prof. Emily Martin wins the 2019 Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science
Aug. 08, 2019
Navajo-Hopi student Angelo Baca’s outreach work profiled in “The Circle"
Jul. 18, 2019
Prof. Fred Myers on stage at the Gagosian Gallery
Jun. 07, 2019
Prof. Sally Merry wins the 2019 Boas Prize for Exemplary Service from the AAA
Jun. 06, 2019
Filmmaker-in-Residence Cheryl Furjanic’s “Op-Doc” on her film “Stonewall: The Making of a Monument” featured in the NYT
May. 20, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Renato Rosaldo on his new book, “The Chasers,” just out from Duke University Press
May. 17, 2019
Prof. Fred Myers releases a new co-edited volume on indigenous cultural capital
May. 14, 2019
Prof. James Higham in the NYT considers how monkeys help us understand responses to trauma
May. 01, 2019
First hominins on the Tibetan plateau were sister group of Neanderthals, Prof. Shara Bailey shows
Apr. 30, 2019
Human ancestors were “grounded,” PhD student Thomas Prang shows
Apr. 22, 2019
Save the date, September 13th from 4-7pm, for a party in honor of the life and work of Tom Abercrombie
Apr. 16, 2019
Prof. Helena Hansen has released a new co-edited volume
Mar. 29, 2019
Anna Weinreich’s (PhD/C&M) film on Tongan art profiled in Hyperallergic
Mar. 29, 2019
Angelo Baca (PhD '21) on impact of oil drilling on Navajo lands in 3-23 episode of NPR's "The Reveal”
Mar. 11, 2019
Prof. James Higham links rate of birth intervals to mortality among primates
Mar. 10, 2019
NYU team advances our knowledge of Australopithecus sediba
Mar. 07, 2019
Strong Doctoral Placement: NYU 7th Nationwide
Mar. 06, 2019
“Knock Down the House,” new documentary of Rachel Lears (PhD/C&M ’12) on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter.
Mar. 06, 2019
Professor Susan Antón elected next President of the Ford Foundation Society of Senior Fellows
Feb. 11, 2019
New book from Professor Tom Abercrombie wins TOME award to go open access
Jan. 31, 2019
King of Sweden presents Vega Medal to Professor Emily Martin
Jan. 30, 2019
Professor Jane Anderson in the New Yorker on Passamaquoddy digital repatriation
Jan. 30, 2019
Creative Commons interviews Professor Jane Anderson on decolonization
Jan. 28, 2019
The New Yorker profiles Professor Emily Martin’s foundational work in the Anthropology of Science
Jan. 26, 2019
Professor James Higham appointed as German Research Foundation Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen for Fall 2019
Jan. 24, 2019
Professor Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD) becomes a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2019-2020
Jan. 21, 2019
Rust Family Foundation awards Professor Pam Crabtree for work on “Feeding Medieval Europe"
Mar. 06, 2019
AAPA Honors Professor Susan Antón with Gabriel L. Lasker Service Award for 2019
Dec. 15, 2018
Work of HSB MA Alum Rachel Kalisher profiled in Science
Mar. 06, 2019
Professor Jane Anderson wins NEH for “Local Contexts” in collaborative education in indigenous collections
Dec. 09, 2018
Leakey Foundation awards Research Grant to Professor James Higham for work on cone-ratio variation in rhesus macaques
Dec. 02, 2018
Profs. Helena Hansen and Rayna Rapp receive new Robert Wood Johnson Grant for work on youth public health in NYC and Amsterdam
Nov. 04, 2018
Prof. Sonia Das wins Wenner-Gren Foundation fellowship for linguistic ethnography of policing in the US South
Sep. 16, 2018
International Council for Archaezoology appoints Prof. Pam Crabtree to Council of Honor
Sep. 08, 2018
Prof. Sonia Das appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Sep. 03, 2018
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