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
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
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.
Professor Lisa Messeri’s research was recently featured in PBS Nova website. Please click here to read the article.
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
Peter Chung – Brand New World: A Semiotic Formulation of the Branded Social Media Persona
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff – Wounded Hope/Cheap Healing: Practicing Reclamation in Virginia Coalfields
Jacqueline Salzinger – A Matter of Time: Localization in Humanitarian Practice in Amman, Jordan
Helen Price –... Read more
Luisa Cortesi, Graduate Student in both Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies, was recently awarded the Eric Wolf Prize by the Political Ecology Society for “the best article-length paper based in substantive field research that makes an innovative contribution to Political Ecology”. ... Read more
