One of our newest admitted PhD student, Kymberley Chu, recently wrote on Platypus, the CASTAC (Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, & Computing Blog). In her blog, Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds, Chu compared different pig diseases to argue for a One Health approach that treats nonhuman animals as…
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Jagat Sohail, awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2022!
The Newcombe Fellowship, funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, is the largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and…
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Durham, named one of seven new members to the Michigan Society of Fellows.
Durham’s dissertation title is, “Minding Time: Healthy Living Amid the Clinic, the Church, and the Home(land) in the Republic of Cameroon.” Durham’s doctoral research examines intersecting impacts of psychiatric…
The title of Cate Morley's is titled, Partial Remains: Forced Disappearance and Humanitarian Forensic Intervention in Mexico
Congratulations to seniors Beata Corcoran and Frances Walker both awarded the Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects 2022. The Lobouisse Prize enables graduating seniors to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Beata CorcoranCorcoran, who is also earning certificates…
On Thursday, April 7, ANT 311: Food, Culture & Society, focused on seafood and sustainability with Professor Hanna Garth. Mariculture, the farming of marine organisms like oysters, has a…
Professor Agustín Fuentes recently co-wrote an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times titled, “Is humanity doomed? That depends on us.” The op-ed addresses predictions by prominent figures of doomsday and what will cause it.
"As ecologists and anthropologists who study human evolution and human relations with the planet, we are deeply…
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Kamal Kariem, awarded the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship by Williams College. The fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship to honor Gaius Bolin's legacy and promote diversity on college faculties. Bolin was Williams College's first Black graduate. The college awards the fellowship to graduate students…
Ph.D. candidate Brandon Hunter-Pazzara recently appeared on the Brady Foundation's (gun control organization in the US) podcast Red, Blue & Brady to talk about a paper published a few years ago on racial gun violence. The podcast, “The Social Lives of Firearms: How Guns are Made and What They Mean,” discusses how guns can have “social lives…