Dr. Gary Aronsen is the lead author of a new paper titled “The dead shall be raised”: Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut.”
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Fall Course Offering: SAST 308, ANTH 318
Peril and Possibility in the South Asian City
Instructor: Adeem Suhail
T, TH 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM WTS A42
This course explores a ground-up view of the many ways in which the urban denizens of these bustling cities where past and futures collide, experience this... Read more
Luisa Cortesi ’18 Ph.D., who completed a joint degree in environmental studies and anthropology, during the 2019 Yale commencement received the Theron Rockwell Field Prize. The prestigious university-wide award honors scholarship of poetic, literary, or religious value.
Cortesi was recognized for... Read more
PhD student Elena Adasheva-Klein has been accepted to the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The program, offered by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, seeks to promote broader and... Read more
Bukhchuluun Dashzeveg, a third year Ph.D student in Archaeology, was recently awarded Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. His doctoral research focuses on the social dimensions of mortuary practices within early nomadic pastoral communities in the Gobi Desert of southeastern... Read more
PhD student Victoria Harries won the second place in in the inaugural Roger Barnett Public Health Video Challenge. Please click here to read more. Congratulations Victoria!
Congratulations to Souvanik Mullick, a fourth-year PhD student in
Sociocultural Anthropology, whose research on small-scale urban
transport and democratic politics in Delhi, India, has been awarded a
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, New... Read more
