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Scott Williams
Jun. 18, 2021

Prof. Scott Williams’ work on human fossils profiled in NYU IT “Download”
Congrats to Paul Mensah
May. 20, 2021

Congrats to Paul Mensah (MS 2021) as this year’s GSAS Banner Bearer at NYU Commencement
NYU Anthropology Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
Mar. 23, 2021

NYU Anthropology Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
Congratulations to Prof. Shara Bailey on receiving NYU’s 2021 FAS Teaching Innovation Award
Mar. 08, 2021

Congratulations to Shara Bailey and Angela Zito on being among the winners of NYU’s 2021 FAS Teaching Innovation Awards
NYU Anthropology ranks 9th nationally in 2020 QS Survey
Feb. 25, 2021

NYU Anthropology ranks 9th nationally in 2020 QS Survey
Faye
Feb. 03, 2021

Congratulations to Prof. Faye Ginsburg on winning NYU’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award
Emily Martin
Nov. 16, 2020

Congratulations to Emily Martin on receiving this year’s Career Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology
Please join for a celebration of the life and work of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)
Oct. 15, 2020

Please join for a celebration of the life and work of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)
Tejas Ganti
Jun. 25, 2020

Prof. Tejaswini Ganti on nepotism in Bollywood for the Times of India
BLM
Jun. 22, 2020

NYU Anthropology supports Black Lives Matter
Congratulations to Prof. Susan Antón
Apr. 27, 2020

Congratulations to Prof. Susan Antón on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Profs. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp win an NYU Catalyst Grant for work on disability
Apr. 27, 2020

Profs. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp win an NYU Catalyst Grant for work on disability in a time of COVID-19
Shara Bailey
Apr. 24, 2020

NYU Anthropology team demonstrates how teeth are “the archive of life”
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Mar. 12, 2020

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Justin Pargeter
Mar. 02, 2020

Prof. Justin Pargeter featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown: Humanity’s Ancient Ancestors”
Arlene Davila
Jan. 27, 2020

Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Dávila on winning NYU’s 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award
Jane Anderson
Jan. 21, 2020

Congratulations to Prof. Jane Anderson on a new NEA grant to support Passamaquody “Grandfathers' Songs”
New memorial essays for Prof. Tom Abercrombie in Cultural Anthropology
Jan. 02, 2020

New memorial essays for Prof. Tom Abercrombie in Cultural Anthropology
Rayna Rapp
Nov. 15, 2019

The AAA’s Association for Feminist Anthropology awards its Career Award to Prof. Rayna Rapp
Prof. Nathalie Peutz
Oct. 31, 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Nathalie Peutz on winning the AAA’s MES Book Award for “Islands of Heritage” (Stanford 2018)
Latinx Image
Oct. 22, 2019

NPR features Prof. Arlene Dávila and the LatinX Edit-a-Thon
Aaron Glass
Oct. 16, 2019

Congratulations to Aaron Glass (PhD 2006) on winning the Ames Award from the Council for Museum Anthropology for “Story Box”
Jane Anderson
Sep. 16, 2019

Follow Prof. Jane Anderson’s recent work on language revitalization efforts with the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine on NPR
Radu Image
Aug. 21, 2019

Prof. Radu Iovita debunks the “Neanderthal genius” argument in new study
Emily Martin
Aug. 20, 2019

Prof. Emily Martin wins the 2019 Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science
Lacrosse game
Aug. 08, 2019

Navajo-Hopi student Angelo Baca’s outreach work profiled in “The Circle"
Fred Myers at Gagossian
Jul. 18, 2019

Prof. Fred Myers on stage at the Gagosian Gallery
Sally Merry
Jun. 07, 2019

Prof. Sally Merry wins the 2019 Boas Prize for Exemplary Service from the AAA
Filmmaker-in-Residence Cheryl Furjanic’s “Op-Doc” on her film “Stonewall: The Making of a Monument”
Jun. 06, 2019

Filmmaker-in-Residence Cheryl Furjanic’s “Op-Doc” on her film “Stonewall: The Making of a Monument” featured in the NYT
Renato Rosaldo
May. 20, 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Renato Rosaldo on his new book, “The Chasers,” just out from Duke University Press
Fred Myers Book Cover
May. 17, 2019

Prof. Fred Myers releases a new co-edited volume on indigenous cultural capital
James Higham Article Image
May. 14, 2019

Prof. James Higham in the NYT considers how monkeys help us understand responses to trauma
Image
May. 01, 2019

First hominins on the Tibetan plateau were sister group of Neanderthals, Prof. Shara Bailey shows
Image for CSHO
Apr. 30, 2019

Human ancestors were “grounded,” PhD student Thomas Prang shows
Thomas Abercrombie
Apr. 22, 2019

Save the date, September 13th from 4-7pm, for a party in honor of the life and work of Tom Abercrombie
link to Helena Book
Apr. 16, 2019

Prof. Helena Hansen has released a new co-edited volume
Image for Anna Weinreich
Mar. 29, 2019

Anna Weinreich’s (PhD/C&M) film on Tongan art profiled in Hyperallergic
Angelo Baca (PhD Candidate)
Mar. 29, 2019

Angelo Baca (PhD '21) on impact of oil drilling on Navajo lands in 3-23 episode of NPR's "The Reveal”
Link to Article
Mar. 11, 2019

Prof. James Higham links rate of birth intervals to mortality among primates
Article
Mar. 10, 2019

NYU team advances our knowledge of Australopithecus sediba
Article
Mar. 07, 2019

Strong Doctoral Placement: NYU 7th Nationwide
Knock Down the House
Mar. 06, 2019

“Knock Down the House,” new documentary of Rachel Lears (PhD/C&M ’12) on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter.
Ford Foundation
Mar. 06, 2019

Professor Susan Antón elected next President of the Ford Foundation Society of Senior Fellows
Passing to America
Feb. 11, 2019

New book from Professor Tom Abercrombie wins TOME award to go open access
Link to Article
Jan. 31, 2019

King of Sweden presents Vega Medal to Professor Emily Martin
In 1890, the anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes gathered members of the Passamaquoddy to record folk
Jan. 30, 2019

Professor Jane Anderson in the New Yorker on Passamaquoddy digital repatriation
Anderson Interview
Jan. 30, 2019

Creative Commons interviews Professor Jane Anderson on decolonization
Martin in New Yorker
Jan. 28, 2019

The New Yorker profiles Professor Emily Martin’s foundational work in the Anthropology of Science
Higham goes to Gottingen image
Jan. 26, 2019

Professor James Higham appointed as German Research Foundation Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen for Fall 2019
Peutz goes to Princeton
Jan. 24, 2019

Professor Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD) becomes a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2019-2020
Crabtree wins award
Jan. 21, 2019

Rust Family Foundation awards Professor Pam Crabtree for work on “Feeding Medieval Europe"
Anton wins award
Mar. 06, 2019

AAPA Honors Professor Susan Antón with Gabriel L. Lasker Service Award for 2019
Kalisher in Science
Dec. 15, 2018

Work of HSB MA Alum Rachel Kalisher profiled in Science
Anderson NEH
Mar. 06, 2019

Professor Jane Anderson wins NEH for “Local Contexts” in collaborative education in indigenous collections
Higham Leakey Foundation
Dec. 09, 2018

Leakey Foundation awards Research Grant to Professor James Higham for work on cone-ratio variation in rhesus macaques
Hansen and Rapp
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
Sonia Das
Nov. 04, 2018

Prof. Sonia Das wins Wenner-Gren Foundation fellowship for linguistic ethnography of policing in the US South
ICAZ and Crabtree
Sep. 16, 2018

International Council for Archaezoology appoints Prof. Pam Crabtree to Council of Honor
Das and JLA
Sep. 08, 2018

Prof. Sonia Das appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Past News
Sep. 03, 2018

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