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July 25, 2018
The Department of Anthropology at Yale University anticipates making a tenure-track appointment in Sociocultural Anthropology, at the Assistant Professor rank, beginning on July 1, 2019. This search seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests that complement... Read more
July 9, 2018
Congratulations to Souvanik Mullick, a fourth year PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology, who has received an award from the National Science Foundation, which is co-funded by the Law and Social Science Program and the Cultural Anthropology Program, to support field work in India for his... Read more
June 26, 2018
Congratulations to Bhoomika Joshi, a fourth year student in sociocultural anthropology, whose dissertation research project entitled “Rapid Infrastructural Development, Mobility, and Changing Spatial and Social Relations” has received funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National... Read more
June 23, 2018
Yale University, Department of Anthropology anticipates making a tenure-track appointment in anthropological genetics at the assistant professor rank, beginning on July 1, 2019. Priority will be given to candidates with demonstrated research and teaching interests in genetic approaches to... Read more
May 25, 2018
Gao Yufang, who is in the combined degree program between F&ES and Yale’s Department of Anthropology, received the 2018 Graduate School Public Scholar Award for his commitment to public service. Please click here to read more about Yufang’s award.
May 11, 2018
Professor Lisa Messeri’s research was recently featured in PBS Nova website. Please click here to read the article. 
April 26, 2018
PhD student Amanda Leiss was recently awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her project titled: Paleoenvironmental context of Early Stone Age Archaeology: An analysis of the Gona fauna between ~3 and 1 Ma.  Along with dissertation grants from the Leakey Foundation, the... Read more