Yale Anthropology is proud to announce that Ph.D. candidate Sahana Ghosh has been awarded five grants this past semester to support her 18 months of field work from July 2014 through December 2015 in both India and Bangladesh, on her project entitled:
Borderland Orders: The Gendered Economy of... Read more
Sara Shneiderman and her co-author Amanda Snellinger have recently co-edited a collection of short essays on “The “Politics of “Post-Conflict”: On the Ground in South Asia” in the journal Cultural Anthropology. This contribution summarized here is the most recent research conducted of Professor... Read more
Dr. Susan Walsh, a post-doctoral associate in the Yale Molecular Anthropology Laboratory has been appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. In collaboration with and under the supervision of Professor Brenda... Read more
Congratulations to Erik Harms on receiving the 2014 Harry J. Benda Prize in recognition of his achievement as the author of Saigon’s Edge - On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City. The Harry J. Benda Prize, first awarded in 1977, is given annually by the Association for Asian Studies* to an... Read more
Brenda Bradley has been awarded a major grant by the National Science Foundation to investigate the evolution of hair and fur variation in primates. Despite being among the most varied mammal in terms of coloration and morphology, surprisingly little is known about the evolution of this important... Read more
Kristina Guild Douglass (Anthropology) spent 10 years of her childhood in Madagascar, and now does her dissertation fieldwork there. Set in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa, Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world.
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It split from India around 88 million years... Read more
Yale News “Take 5” recently featured an interview with Professor Kate Dudley. Professor Dudley discusses her most recent research, teaching experiences, and other interests. She is a full professor and holds a joint appointment in Anthropology and American Studies. The full transcript can be... Read more
