Ada Amobi '09
As a physician, I am constantly talking with patients in an effort to better understand their lived experiences. My anthropology education helps me be a better listener and to ask more meaningful questions during patient interactions.
Spotlight on Professor Agustín Fuentes
Dr. Fuentes’ current projects focus on the dynamic interactions of biocultural, cognitive and ethnographic approaches to human behavior, and the misrepresentations of human evolution, biology and diversity.

Ethnographic Data Visualization Lab
The VizE Lab is the campus hub for researchers who want to bring the insights of data visualization and the vitality of documentary filmmaking into humanistic ethnography.

Center on Transnational Policing
The CTP will bring together Princeton scholars and students to understand policing in the U.S. and internationally. As the hub of a wider social scientific research network, the Center’s mission will be to explore policing from a transnational approach.
Events
What a Mushroom Lives For
Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
220 Guyot Hall
Speaker
Michael Hathaway
Affiliation
Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Saramago 100 Years
Wed, Apr 5, 2023, 4:30 pm – Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 6:30 pm
Location
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
Speakers
- Pilar del RíoAffiliationPresident, José Saramago Foundation
- Lilia M. SchwarczAffiliationProfessor of Anthropology at University of São Paulo; Visiting Professor at Princeton
- Kathryn Bishop-SánchezAffiliationProfessor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Naming the Secret Communist Agent: Law’s Suspicion, Archive, and Ambiguity
Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker
Affiliation
Boğaziçi University, Visiting Scholar at Institute for Advanced Study
Researching Mass Incarceration and Mental Health: A Princetonian Anthropological Approach
Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDrake University
- AffiliationThe University of Edinburgh
Letterwork: Because Writing Needs Some Support
Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Speaker
Affiliation
University of California, Irvine
Veins of Conflict: Bodies and the Environment in Peru's Copper Circuit, 1884 - 1930
Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Morrison Hall, Room 224
Speaker
Affiliation
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Effron Center for the Study of America
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