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Hayden Kantor recently joined the Department of Anthropology as the Postdoctoral Associate for Global Engaged Learning. In this newly created position, Kantor will develop a multi-year curriculum to help train undergraduates in the skills and analytical approaches that will promote their success in off-campus learning and research. Kantor will...
Cornell Anthropology PhD candidates Emily Hong and Mariangela Mihai co-directed For My Art, along with Miasarah Lai. The ethnographic film documents five women performance artists as they venture into the streets, markets, and mega-malls of Yangon, Burma/Myanmar. As ordinary people and objects are swept into their art, the boundaries between...
Laura Menchaca, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, has won an Engaged Graduate Student Grant from Engaged Cornell to support her research in Palestine and Chile. Menchaca is exploring the deepening relationship between Palestine and its diaspora in Chile. Her dissertation project is “first and foremost an attempt to better...
Danilyn Rutherford PhD '97 was recently appointed President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. is a private operating foundation dedicated to the advancement of anthropology throughout the world. Located in New York City, it is one of the major funding sources for international...
Uthara Suvrathan, a visiting Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, recently led her class (ARKEO/ANTHRO 2140, Fantastic Frauds and Myths in Archaeology) in a Nazca Lines activity on the Arts Quad. The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in...
Reunion Weekend, June 9-12, 2016, is around the corner and the Department of Anthropology is excited to host an Open House of their Collections from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm on Friday, June 10. Curator Frederic Gleach will be available to talk with guests and answer questions about the Anthropology Collections and their history at Cornell. Located in...
Congratulations to our graduates on behalf of the entire department! Be sure to keep in touch. We can’t wait to hear where your road leads you.Minor CertificationNatasha BartolottaCarly BatistScott GoldbergIsabel Oyuela-BonzaniKatherine PannillVictoria Williams Bachelor of ArtsJessica CornellCong FanEmily GrafHazel...
Hayden Kantor, PhD '16, Anthropology, is the winner of the 2016 Guilford Essay Prize for his submission, “‘We Earn Less than We Eat’: Food, Farming, and the Caring Family in Bihar, India.” Established in 1988 in memory of J. P. Guilford '21, The Guilford Essay Prize is given out by the Cornell University Department of English to “the doctoral...
Cornell Anthropology alumnus Andrew J. Arnold III was awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers grant in support of his proposed project “The Enculturated Champion - A Holistic Analysis of the Kenyan Distance Running Phenomenon.” This project seeks to explore Kenyan distance running, which over the past 50 years has become a global athletic...
Two faculty-led projects from the Department of Anthropology were awarded Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum grants. The first project, "An Anthropology Curriculum for Teaching lntercultural Engagement," will focus on the development of three innovative co-meeting courses as gateways to global learning. Anthropology Department project...
Jonathan Boyarin, the Hendrix Director of Jewish Studies, the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and professor of anthropology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). The AAJR was founded in 1919 and includes about one hundred of the most eminent scholars of Jewish Studies in North...
Stacey Langwick, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies, was awarded an Institute for the Social Sciences’ small grant for her project "The Power of Skin in East Africa". The power of skin is at the center of heated public debates in East Africa today. Efforts to stop the current wave of attacks...
Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Ting Hui LAU recently won a WennerGren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. The Title of Ting's project is "Millenarian Modernities: Demon possession and development on the margins of China."Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research. The program contributes to...
Check out these online Anthropology Summer Sessions.Study with renowned faculty, earn credits, gain valuable skills, and complete requirements...ANTHR 1300 Human Evolution: Genes, Behavior, and the Fossil Record (M. Small)ANTHR 2390 The Evolution of Intelligence in Primates and Humans (A Arcadi)ANTHR 2496 The Anthropology and History of the...
The Department of Anthropology at Cornell University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral position in global engaged learning and research. The position is potentially renewable for a second year, pending funding. During the term of the appointment, the candidate will assist department faculty in the development of a series of...
Professors Lori Khatchadourian (NES) and Adam T. Smith (Anthropology), in collaboration with Ian Lindsay (Purdue), Alan Greene (Stanford), and Maureen Marshall (Illinois), were awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for their project: Fortifications and Long-Term Political Process in Bronze and Iron Age Southern Caucasia. The proposed...
Professor Stacey Langwick was awarded a fellowship to the Society for the Humanities for the 2016/2017 academic year. The theme for the Society next year is SKIN. Professor Langwick's project is entitled (Un)ethical Substances: The Power of Skin in East Africa.Professor Langwick is Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the...
Congratulations to the Anthropology Department's Zachary Howlett on being selected for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.Zach’s research examines the ideology of meritocracy in China and beyond. His current project focuses on China’s...
Congratulations, Rabin Willford ‘17. Rabin was awarded the Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology. The Freedman Award is designed to support anthropological research either independently or in collaboration with an existing program of ethnographic or archaeological research. Rabin will use this award to support research in...
My research has focused over the last forty years on the Tamang, a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in highland Nepal. My research began with the study of their syncretic ritual system and its relation to social structure. I worked with Buddhist ritual practitioners, shamans, and sacrificers and linked their divergent practices to...
Archaeologist Kurt Jordan (an Associate Professor jointly appointed in American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program) has researched 17th and 18th century Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) communities in collaboration with Haudenosaunee people since 1999. His current project investigates the circa 1688-1715 Seneca town at the White Springs site,...
Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a seed grant from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies in support of his interdisciplinary project “An Ethnographic and Legal Collaboration to Develop a Hemispheric Institute for Carceral Studies.”The grant funding will support initiatives in Hemispheric Carceral...
The Department of Anthropology is now accepting applications for the Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology. The Freedman Award is designed to support undergraduate majors wishing to undertake anthropological research either independently or in collaboration with an existing program of ethnographic or archaeological research. ...
Professor John Henderson's research interests revolve around the nature of early complex societies and the processes through which complexity develops. How do distinctions in status, wealth, and authority emerge? Under what circumstances do they intensify into stratification? How does stratification relate to the centralization of political...
The Society for Cultural Anthropology is hosting their Biennial Meeting at Cornell University May 13-14, 2016. The Conference Theme is Collaboration. Collaboration has become an important key word in the world and an important methodological and ethical concern in anthropology. The conference seeks to explore and critically examine the further...