Congratulations to Anthropology Assistant Professor Amelia Frank-Vitale and Lecturer Timothy Loh for receiving Magic Grants for Innovation from the Humanities Council.

Frank-Vitale received the grant for "Caravan Archive. This project will bring together an interdisciplinary, international team that will combine ethnographic skills with oral history, area studies, participatory research methods, and curation to create the first of its kind archive on the phenomenon of migrant caravans to be housed in the Princeton University Library's Digital Collections.

Loh was awarded the grant for "Recentering Jordan in the Anthropology of the Modern Middle East," a spring 2026 break trip to Jordan. The course, which Loh will teach, reconsiders Jordan as a critical site of inquiry in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, underpinned by the ethos that attention to the unfolding of everyday life in the kingdom can shed light on broader political, economic, and social transformations taking place across the region and, indeed, the world.

Magic grants support ideas that break new intellectual and pedagogical ground and have the potential to transform the way the humanities are conceived and taught.