Ongoing research projects in the Department engage a range of critical themes including: medicine and culture; politics, inequality and sovereignty; migration and borders, economy, finance, corporations and law; materiality and aesthetics; gender, personhood and identity; ethics and humanitarianism; humans and animals; colonialism and post-coloniality.
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Student Research Opportunities
The Department of Anthropology has many partners on campus and around the world that enable our students and faculty members to explore collaborative research opportunities. Students can work with faculty but are also encouraged to develop their own skills at imagining, designing and executing individual research projects.
The Freedman Fund for Undergraduate Research, funded by an endowment established by Randy ‘75 and Howard ‘74, MBA ‘75 Freedman, supports undergraduate students in undertaking anthropological research.
Anthropological research is engaged with local communities. It is committed to empirical observation. And it is shaped by advanced theoretical understandings of practice and process, tradition and transformation. These are a few highlights of our current work:
Faculty Research Spotlights
Upcoming Events
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Thursday 12:15 PM
Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Militarization, Oil Industrialization, and Singapore
Location: Kahin Center
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Thursday 04:30 PM
Bernd Lambert Memorial Lecture with Radhika Govindrajan
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
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Thursday 12:15 PM
The Urban Grotesque: Life and Debt in Jakarta
Location: Kahin Center
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Friday 03:00 PM
Anthropology Colloquium: Parijat Jha
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
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Monday 12:45 PM
After Secularism: Sharing Religion in a Polarizing India
Location: Uris Hall, G08
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Friday 03:00 PM
Anthropology Colloquium: David Carballo
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21