On Thursday, September 5th, Anthropology graduate student Nikhil Pandhi successfully defended his dissertation “Dying of Casteism: On Queer Socio-Poetics and the Embodied Violence of Caste in Contemporary India”
This…
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Co-Director, CTP; Chair, Effron Center) will discuss her new book, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a…
The Trenton Journal recently published an article on April De Simone, founder of Practice of Democracy the People’s Studio Practicum. De Simone and her husband Marcus, are pioneering new approaches to equitable housing.
This past spring Jacob Geuder,…
The Department of Anthropology welcomed the Class of 2028 at the Academic Expo yesterday. Students visiting the Expo had the opportunity to learn more about Anthropology and the three tracks offered: Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology and Law, Politics, and Economics. The Anthropology table engaged with students wanting to speak…
Anthropology Lecturer, Thalia Gigerenzer, recently completed an audio ethnography of Galax, Virginia, a small town of roughly 7,000 people located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The piece follows residents of the town through the Covid-19 pandemic, when this tightly-knit town suddenly became divided. Galax…
Kymberley Chu, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, co-chaired the panel entitled "Uncertain Methods, Elusive Lives" with her academic collaborators Paul Keil and Kieran O'Mahony (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences) at the 2024 annual…
Professor Carolyn Rouse, President-Elect of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is leading an effort with the AAA to address issues anthropologically. Present Tense is an online forum of opinion essays tackling critical topical issues around the world. This forum is designed…
Anthropologist João Biehl and historian Miquéias Mugge have collaborated with international colleagues on a
Nikita Taniparti, second-year Anthropology graduate student, has been appointed as a Contributing Editor to the Society for Cultural Anthropology (Digital). Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of…
Kymberley Chu, third-year Anthropology graduate student, recently published her article entitled, "Seeing One Animal, Two Beings" in Anthropology Now. Seeing One Animal, Two Beings narrates how citizen scientists and…