AN Faculty Wade Campbell and Student Ruofei Shang are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards
Two Anthropology Department members are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards! Professor Wade Campbell is one of two faculty recipients of the 3rd annual CAS Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) Award. AN undergraduate major, Ruofei Shang, was the recipient of the undergraduate award. The CAS IDEAL award honors CAS community members annually for leadership that advances the […]
AN major Olivia Mills Awarded by BU Center for the Humanities
AN major Olivia Mills has been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee as one of the recipients of endowed funds given by Alice M. Brennan. With this award and $4,000.00 monetary prize, BUCH recognizes their excellence in the humanistic tradition, which holds an important place in the history and future of […]
AN major Ruofei Shang featured in CAS Student Spotlight Video
AN major Ruofei Shang is featured in this 2 minute video on her recent Communications internship at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD). Check it out here: https://youtu.be/fEyC5lmw1aM?si=OBg4n56WSFSJIRzs Congrats Ruofei! We can’t wait to see what you accomplish next!
READ: Hazal Aydin’s article, “The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening”
PhD student Hazal Aydin has a new article titled “The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening.” Her piece emerged from a roundtable on decolonial research methods and native scholars during her time as a Research Assistant with the ERC funded Takhayyul Project. It is among several articles that came out of […]
PhD Student Gabriel Vicencio Awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Graduate student Gabriel Vicencio was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for his project titled “The Role of Raw Material in Defining Social Interaction” that will allow him to complete his research on stone economies at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Congrats Gabo!
READ: Xuyi Zhao’s Article “A timespace of zero-COVID in Southwest China: Building community, governing time”
PhD student Xuyi Zhao has a new article published in City and Society. The paper titled “A timespace of zero-COVID in Southwest China: Building community, governing time” discusses the interplays of time, power, and legitimacy during China’s pandemic community building. An earlier version of this paper won an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Graduate Student […]
PhD Student Warrenkevin Henderson interviewed by BU Today for Veterans Day
Anthropology PhD student Warrenkevin Henderson reflects on what Veterans Day means to him in a new BU Today article featuring BU veterans and soldiers. Warrenkevin served in the US Navy from 2008-2017. Thank you for your service Warrenkevin! Read the BU Today Article HERE
NEW Special Topics Course: AN 598 Primate Conversation with Professor Cheryl Knott
Check out the new Special Topics in Anthropology Course: AN 598 Primate Conservation with Professor Cheryl Knott, open for spring 2025 registration! The course will meet T/TH 11AM-12:15PM See the poster below for details! AN598 Primate Conservation Poster
PhD Student Ziqi Xie recieves the AAA’s David M. Schneider Award
Congratulations to PhD student Ziqi Xie who has received the AAA’s David M. Schneider Award for research. This award is given each year to a graduate student in anthropology in recognition of innovative work in the fields of kinship, culture theory, and American culture. Awards will be presented at the AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida.
PhD Student Leyla Jafarova Wins the “2024 National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Student Paper Award”
PhD sociocultural anthropology student Leyla Jafarova is the Graduate Winner of the “2024 National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Student Paper Award.” Congratulations Leyla!