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The Nilgiris Field Learning Center was recently featured in Ezra Magazine. Anthropology Professor Andrew Willford is a core team member for the Nilgiris Field Learning Center. Ezra Magazine: "Growing global: Cornell continues to expand opportunities for meaningful international experiences"
Interim Provost Harry Katz has named anthropology professor Hirokazu Miyazaki director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Miyazaki directs the center’s East Asia Program and coordinates its Global Finance Initiative. His new appointment begins July 1.“I look forward to the continued strong growth of international...
The Roseberry Nash Paper Prize Committee of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology selected Monica Salas Landa's paper, "Modernist Ruins, Fragmented Debris: The Unmaking Of Monumentality in the Northern Lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico," as the winner. The Committee noted that Landa's paper constitutes a critical and innovative...
Menashe Unger started life as a good 19th-century Polish Hasidic Jew, the youngest son of a revered rabbi, and received rabbinic ordination at the age of 17 – then he turned his back on the religious world to attend university and join the Labor Zionist movement. He worked as a stone mason and journalist, and eventually emigrated to America, where...
My heart is heavier than the Heart Sutra, which is usually translated as: “Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form. Gone. Gone. Gone beyond. Gone altogether beyond.”Mhanegang, Nepal, where David Holmberg, Ph.D. ’80, professor of anthropology, and I have worked for 40-plus years, is gone.According to our longtime friend, host and research partner...
The week of June 15-19, professors Adam T. Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies, led a mini-course on archaeology at the Elizabeth Anne Clune Montessori School of Ithaca. Nine children ages 5-8 spent five mornings exploring aspects of archaeological research.“It was an opportunity for students to learn about the...
Trying to divine the future of a precarious administration, “House of Cards” President Frank Underwood enters the inner sanctum with a trusted adviser. “It’s really a crapshoot,” the adviser says, and the president nods. The bourbon is drained, cigars are snuffed, and the political leader emerges with a more confident sense of what’s to come.'...
Four doctoral students studying fields in the College of Arts & Sciences are the inaugural recipients of the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities.
The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
What began as a passion project for a master’s student in archaeology, has become a cross-campus fascination that encompasses everything from ancient burial rituals to the lost history of donated artifacts, the totemic power of animals, and even Egyptian beer.
Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
American Studies Program, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies Program, Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program
Professor
Anthropology, Archaeology Program, Classics, Jewish Studies Program, Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program
