Pyre, Aniruddhan Vasudevan's English translation of celebrated Tamil author Perumal Murugan's novel Pookuzhi, has been longlisted for…
By Daniel Day, Liz Fuller-Wright, Jamie Saxon and Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
Princeton student athletes must juggle competing demands on their time between academics and athletics. Seniors like Quincy Monday of the wrestling team have been working on their theses as they have advanced in post-season tournaments.On…
Anthropology senior Sarah Brown is the recipient of the Reach Out Domestic Fellowship, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation.
Brown will return to NYC Health and Hospitals’ Institute for Diseases and Disaster Management, where she has previously interned. She will help to develop and…
Congratulations to Professor Julia Elyachar on her membership in the new editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology, our discipline’s flagship journal. Please see here their exciting opening…
Congratulations to graduate alumni Susanna Trnka *02 and L. L. Wynn *03 for taking up the editorship of American Ethnologist, Journal of the American Ethnological Society (AES). Please see here their opening statement.
In related news, the…
On Thursday, Feb 16, the Global Japan Lab (GJL) hosted a community open house. The event was hosted by James Raymo, Director of GJL and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of Sociology along with Professor Ryo Morimoto, executive committee member…
Students from Anthropology's Proseminar and the graduate seminar "Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Perspectivism in the Anthropocene" visited the Yanomami Struggle, an exhibition at The SHED in New York City on Saturday, February 25. The visit was led by Professor and Chair of Anthropology João Biehl and Aparecida Vilaça, Visiting Research…
Graduate student, Alisa Sopova, published an article "Anxious suitcases and their contents: Experiences of the war in Ukraine through a material lens" in American Ethnologist. Sopova's article explores the crisis faced by many Ukrainians when being forced to flee and they must decide what to take with them and what to leave behind…