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August 9, 2022
“Human Osteology,” an anthropology course taught by Professor Eric Sargis, has been featured in Yale News as one of Yale’s more popular summer courses. The Yale News article quotes Professor Sargis: “It’s a very exploratory, hands-on course, which is why I think students find it so fun,” said... Read more
August 9, 2022
With the support from the Alan H. Smith Fund, Jessica P. Cerdeña (PhD’22) collaborated with artist Kate Stone to create animations to share her dissertation research with the general public (see links below). Jes uses the metaphor of the monarch butterfly to describe the powerful ways Latina... Read more
July 14, 2022
Spencer Kaplan, a PhD student in the Yale Department of Anthropology, has published a paper in Anthropology of Work Review based on his ethnographic fieldwork among Wall Street’s LGBTQ bankers. “ ‘Bringing Your Full Self to Work’: Fashioning LGBTQ Bankers on Wall Street” explores how... Read more
June 4, 2022
Congratulations to Shoko Yamada, a third year PhD Candidate in the combined PhD program in Sociocultural Anthropology and the School of the Environment, who has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to support her dissertation project, “Promises of Repair: Environmental... Read more
May 26, 2022
Jill J. Tan, a third year PhD Candidate in sociocultural anthropology, has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to support her dissertation project, “Corpses Incorporated: The Funeral Profession and the Geopolitics of Death in Singapore.” She is currently in the field... Read more
May 23, 2022
Congratulations to Jill J. Tan (M. Phil ’22) and Eric Krebs (B.A. ’22), winners in Yale University’s annual Theron Rockwell Field and John Addison Porter Prize competitions. Tan receives a Field Prize for her multimedia work of hybrid poetry, “Notes on the bicentennial of a f/l/ound/er/ing (2019... Read more
May 19, 2022
Congratulations to Raisha Waller on receiving the 2022 Schwartz Prize. The Schwartz Prize is awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding senior essay in biological anthropology by an Anthropology major. Raisha won this prize for an essay titled “The Limits of Empathy: Compassion, Fatigue... Read more