Malene Friis Hansen came to Princeton two and a half years ago. She came as a biologist with the goal of transitioning to anthropology. Along the way, she came to appreciate her background and discovered new ways to combine biology and anthropology. With the support of Professor Agustin Fuentes, she explored new avenues of research and found her way into cultural biology. While at Princeton, she coordinated the Anthropology Postdoc Group and the Multispecies Salon. These groups provided her with a supportive network of like-minded scientists and social events with valuable learning opportunities. Her work at Princeton resulted in seven peer-reviewed publications, four manuscripts under review, one manuscript almost ready for submission, two peer-reviewed book chapters, and two peer-reviewed practice guides. Princeton has helped her find an academic path forward. Her goal is to become tenured in Denmark, although she would like to return to Princeton someday. She has been awarded an Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies-AUFF Fellowship at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her fellowship is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2025.

Ulises Espinoza organized and presented sessions on race science, indigenous knowledge, and epistemic bias at the American Anthropological Association and American Association of Biological Anthropologists conferences. He has also published articles in Nature Communications and Social Science & Medicine. Ulises has also begun his second ethnographic project among medical professionals, tracing how the formation of race as a biological concept is incorporated into technologies, algorithms, and clinical training as a moral economy of care. This moral economy is constituted by a discourse of credibility that dictates what is deemed worthy of citing or teaching about race, thus shaping the kinds of care patients receive. While at Princeton, he developed parts of his first book manuscript, which explores grief and rupture in relation to narratives of progress in Achuar communities in southeastern Ecuador. This fall, he will join San José State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Ellen Kladky joined Princeton in 2023 as a postdoctoral research associate on the Concepts in Dynamic Assemblage project. During her appointment, she revised a book manuscript on financial debt, Christianity, and class in Appalachia, and began research on resale markets and the afterlife of commodity capitalism in rural California. She has also prepared several articles for publication, most recently a manuscript for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion's special issue on race and religion. This fall, she will join the anthropology faculty at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.

Their appointments have been made possible by Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, the Carlsberg Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation.

Congratulations Malene, Ulises, and Ellen!