AN Alum Annika Aneko Schmeding Won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize
AN Alum, Annika Aneko Schmeding has won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize for her book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (2024 Stanford University Press).
READ: New Publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Adli
Read new publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Aldi (PhD 2019)! Burak-Adli, Feyza. 2024. “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Ottoman Sheikh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 56 (2): 207–226. doi:10.1017/S0020743824000631 (OPEN ACCESS) Abstract: Illustrating the complicated lifeworlds of late Ottoman and early Republican elites, this paper examines the life, career, and Islamic thought […]
READ: BU Alum Feyza Burak-Adli’s Editorial ‘Genderless souls?: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts’
BU Alum Feyza Burak-Aldi’s new editorial “Genderless souls?: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts” is now available online and will soon be available in print! EXCERPT: “The present moment invites us to further challenge how we can think of Sufism and gender through a rigorous reflection not only on the ways in which gender and religious […]
BU Alum Lindsay Gifford Awarded University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium Interdisciplinary Research Grant
BU Alum Lindsay Gifford (Ph.D. 2009) was awarded the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium Interdisciplinary Research Grant for a project titled “Imagining the Sanctuary City: Chicago’s Current Migration in Anthropological, Legal and Historical Perspectives.” She is collaborating with faculty in Law and Humanities to better understand migrant and refugee reception in Sanctuary City contexts. Congratulations […]
READ: BU Alum Annika Schmeding’s NEW book “Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan”
BU alum Annika Schmeding’s new book “Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan” is out NOW! Annika co-edited the book and it is released with Berghahn Books. The volume is a collection of essays that probes the boundaries of knowledge production in complex and shifting research settings through exploratory ethnographic writing and probing […]
BU Alum Calynn Dowler Awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
BU alum Calynn Dowler was recently awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in order to finish drafting her current book project. The Wenner-Gren Foundation helps to provide grants and fellowships to support research in all branches of anthropology. The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship provides a stipend for 9 months of full-time writing for […]
READ: BU Alum Dr. Laura Heath-Stout’s book, Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs
BU Archaeology Alum Dr. Laura Heath-Stout’s new book, Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs (an expansion of her dissertation done at BU) is available for preorder, and comes out on 10/31! Congrats Laura! Preorder Laura’s Book Here
Anthropology Department Talks 2024-2025: Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford, A Method in Three Stories: Ethical Reckonings with the Lives of Data and the Case for Co-Design
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Departments of Sociology and Global Health at Emory University. She is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Talk Abstract: A method in three stories: Ethical reckonings with the […]
READ: two new publications from AN alum Noha Roushdy
AN Alum Noha Roushdy has two new publications. Check them out here: https://journals.openedition.org/esma/702?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR36UqqJXvgvBrr7y75sVnr_mG01zjhYRXEySYL3qAUXeyqE_wuw9R5f_Bs_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
READ: Prof Cheryl Knott and PhD alum Andrea DiGiorgio’s chapter in new book “How Primates Eat”
Professor Cheryl Knott and PhD alum Andrea DiGiorgio co-authored chapter 7 in a new book from the University of Chicago Press: How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order. From DiGirogio about the book: Exciting news!! After working on a chapter with Dr. Cheryl Knott for 7 years, this book is […]