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Serguei Oushakine Receives 2025 Graduate Mentoring Award
May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Serguei Oushakine, Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, for receiving the 2025 Graduate Mentoring Award. Co…

Anthropology Welcomes Incoming Graduate Student Cohort
May 15, 2025

The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to welcome our exciting and talented fall 2025 incoming graduate student cohort. Please read below a bit about each student’s interests and goals for their time here at Princeton.

 

Mariana Amaral holds a Master's degree…

Reading James Baldwin Through the Lens of Black Deaf and Disability Studies
May 15, 2025

On April 10, 2025, the Department of Anthropology hosted a public conversation with Dr. Rezenet Moges-Riedel, Assistant Professor and Co…

Lucas Prates, Darius Sadighi, and Christopher Zraunig Awarded Graduate Student Fellowships for AY2025-26
May 12, 2025

Anthropology graduate students Lucas Prates, Darius Sadighi, and Christopher Zraunig have been awarded Graduate Dissertation Writing Fellowships for the 2025-26…

Hanna Garth Awarded Rachel Carson Visiting Scholar Short-Term Residency at Chatham University
May 12, 2025

Assistant Professor Hanna Garth has been awarded a Rachel Carson Visiting Scholar short-term residency at Chatham University. The residency, named after the preeminent environmentalist Rachel Carson, will allow Garth to present her forthcoming book Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better…

Anthropology Majors Venezia Garza and Issa Mudashiru Win 2025 Spirit of Princeton Award
May 12, 2025

Two seniors on the Medical Anthropology track, Venezia Garza and Issa Mudashiru, have been named winners of the 2025 Spirit of Princeton Award for service. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Undergraduate Students, the Spirit of Princeton…

Senior Kat McLaughlin '25 Featured at HMEI Discovery Day
May 9, 2025

Anthropology senior Kat McLaughlin, advised by Assistant Professor Jerry Zee, presented her research at the 2025 HMEI Discovery Day which showcases multidisciplinary student research on environmental topics. Kat's research, Cultures of Work and Environmental Belief Systems: An Ethnography of Forest…

Photography Exhibit Explores Criminal Justice, Urban Violence, and Systemic Inequality
May 8, 2025

A new photography exhibit in Bernstein Gallery showcases the work of Carlos Javier Ortiz, a multidisciplinary artist whose visual storytelling critically explores themes of criminal justice, urban violence, and systemic inequality.

The exhibit, “

Julia Elyachar Discusses Her New Book, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied"
May 8, 2025

On April 24, 2025, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International and Regional Studies, Julia Elyachar gave a talk on her soon to be released new book, On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (which is also forthcoming in Arabic.) As…