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PhD Candidate Katherine Meier’s Research on Challenges Facing Congo Basin Swamp Forests Wins 2026 Bormann Prize
This research explored how villagers are navigating seasonal flooding in a Congo Basin ecosystem prized for its role in mitigating climate change.
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PhD candidate Victoria Bertacchi and alumni Katherine Daiy publish paper
Their research explores breastfeeding practices in Samoa and outcomes on infant satity
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Richard Bribiescas featured in Yale News
Modern lifestyles affect how the gut microbiome processes estrogen
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PhD candidate Aika Sato awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant
This grant funds her dissertation research titled: Cities Built on Sexual Violence: Afterlives of Japanese Empire in Shanghai and Singapore
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David Watts publishes Science paper on chimpanzee lethal conflict
This new study describes wild chimpanzees waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups
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PhD candidate Sarah Joy Martini co-authors article in PLOS One
The paper examines how inter-polity borderlands shaped agro-pastoralist herd management strategies in the Iron Age (10th – 8th centuries BCE) Levant.
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PhD candidate Aishwarya Kazi awarded a Wenner-Gren dissertation research grant
The Production and Experience of Immobility: A Study of the Changing Relationship between the Movement of Soil and People in the Bengal Delta’.
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“Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire” unites Music and Anthropology
“Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire” will feature a performance and conversation with the composers and Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson
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Lily Jackson '26 selected as Gates Cambridge Scholar
Lily will pursue an M.Phil. degree in Archaeological Research exploring livestock health and disease patterns during climate cycles in Ethiopia
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Three PhD students honored at American Anthropological Association meeting
Al Lim, Botao Zhao, and Yuefei You, in the combined PhD program in Anthropology and Environment, were honored with prizes at the AAA fall meeting