The Anthropology Department was honored to invite Dr. Anna Tsing to deliver the annual Clifford Geertz Commemorative Lecture on March 30, 2023. Dr. Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, a Guggenheim Fellow, and Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University. Professor Rob Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A…
Alexandra Middleton *21, 20-21 Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, was recently awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, the European Union’s most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship, for her research on uterus transplantation clinical trials in the US and Sweden. She will be co-hosted at Yale University by Marcia…
Anthropology PhD Student Kymberley Chu presented her conference paper entitled “Representing the ‘Pathogenic Other’ in Malaysian Porcine Worlds” at the…
Artist and first-year graduate student, Moad Musbahi, has been commissioned with his collaborator Sumayya Vally, for the La Biennale di Venezia’s 18th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition. This year’s exhibit curated by Lesley Lokko is titled The Laboratory of…
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…