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Congrats to Prof. Gabriel Dattatreyan on winning on NYU Research Catalyst Prize for his next book, Kitchen Intimacies: Afro-Asian Worlds and Anti-Blackness.
Congrats to Lucas Bessire (PhD ’10) on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship!
Congrats to Cheryl Furjanic on winning a Filmmakers Fund grant for “Adventures in Miscarriage"
Congrats to Prof. Arlene Dávila on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship
Congrats to Prof. Justin Pargeter on his new NSF (with Yale U) to work on ancient hunter-gatherer territoriality and population demography in Malawi
Prof. Shara Bailey’s work on the first stone tools
NYU was delighted to honor the work of our friend and colleague, Emeritus Professor Michael Gilsenan, at an event in December 2022.
Teja Ganti’s new project on dubbing and translation in Hindi cinema profiled in “Outlook”
Pegi Vail’s new film project profiled in The Guardian
Congrats to Prof. Radu Iovita and Emily Coco for BBC coverage of their work on the Paleo Silk Road in Central Asia
Congrats to Prof. Elayne Oliphant on winning the Geertz Prize for The Privilege of Being Banal (U Chicago Press)
Congrats to Prof. Sean Brotherton on becoming President-Elect of the Society for Medical Anthropology
NYU Biological Anthropologists in News for Effects of Pregnancy on Female Skeleton
Prof. Terry Harrison on the Earliest Gibbon Fossil in NYU Scope
Four alums join Ginsburg and Rapp for “After Roe” in CA Hotspots
NYU Anthropology is thrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members: Sean Brotherton, Aimee Cox, and Gabriel Dattatreyan!
Congrats to Prof. James Higham on a new NSF grant (with Swansea U): Form and Function of Primate Natal Coats
Congrats to Pegi Vail on a new Ford Foundation grant in support of her film, “Shadows of Nanook”!
NYU’s Center for Disability Studies (co-led by Faye Ginsburg) has a new video out on disability under COVID
May. 04, 2022
Congrats to Prof Bambi Schieffelin upon election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr. 15, 2022
Congratulations to Amy Zhang on winning the Golden Dozen Teaching Award from CAS
Feb. 09, 2022
Congratulations to Tejaswini Ganti on receiving the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to work on her book project, "Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: Translation, Creativity and Indian Media Worlds."
Feb. 09, 2022
Please join the Book Launch for Aisha Khan’s “The Deepest Dye” on 2-18
Feb. 03, 2022
Culture and Media Alumni Interviews: Robert Y. Chang
Jan. 25, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Emily Martin on the release of “Experiments of the Mind”
Nov. 15, 2021
Prof. Jane Anderson leads new Mellon Grant on indigenous knowledge
Nov. 15, 2021
Prof. Tejaswini Ganti on the rise of defamation cases in Bollywood
Nov. 03, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Dávila on winning this year’s Distinguished Career Award from ALLA
Remembering our friend and colleague, Prof. Steven Gregory (1953-2021)
Prof. Scott Williams’ work on human fossils profiled in NYU IT “Download”
May. 20, 2021
Congrats to Paul Mensah (MS 2021) as this year’s GSAS Banner Bearer at NYU Commencement
Mar. 23, 2021
NYU Anthropology Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
Congratulations to Shara Bailey and Angela Zito on being among the winners of NYU’s 2021 FAS Teaching Innovation Awards
Feb. 25, 2021
NYU Anthropology ranks 9th nationally in 2020 QS Survey
Congratulations to Prof. Faye Ginsburg on winning NYU’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award
Nov. 16, 2020
Congratulations to Emily Martin on receiving this year’s Career Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology
Oct. 15, 2020
Please join for a celebration of the life and work of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)
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
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
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
Navajo-Hopi student Angelo Baca’s outreach work profiled in “The Circle"
Jul. 18, 2019
Prof. Fred Myers on stage at the Gagosian Gallery
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
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
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"
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
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
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