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Boyarin on Benjamin's "Illuminations"

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Anjum Malik: 'Venture into the vast unknown'

<h3>Anjum Malik</h3><h3>Anthropology & Archaeology</h3><h3>Islamabad, Pakistan</h3><p><strong>What is your main Cornell extracurricular activity -- why is it important to you?</strong></p>

Hazel Guardado: 'Anthropology has made me even more curious about the world'

<h3>Hazel Guardado</h3><h3>Anthropology</h3><h3>Miami, FL</h3><p><strong>What accomplishments/activities are you most proud of while at Cornell?</strong></p>

Amiel Bize

I am aneconomicanthropologist whose research focuses on social and economic transformations at capitalist margins. My current book projectconsiders how people make value,in material and meaningful ways,in a“post-agrarian”rural world. Focusing on western Kenya, wheredecades ofrural abandonmenthave produced new configurations ofextraction andaccumulation,the book tracks former farmers as they renegotiate relationships withworth, kin, labor, and nature in Kenya’s liberalized economy.At the heart of the book is a close attention to the bodies, materials, and meanings through which capitalist value takes shape and circulates, and through which it also becomes entangled with—and occasionally diverted by—other-than-capitalist relations.

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Undergrad researches the desecration of cultures

<p>Anjum Malik ’16 used her undergraduate research award to explore the reasons for the destruction of museums and heritage sites in Iraq and Syria.</p>

Hidden Cornell treasures to be digitized

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Some hidden Cornell treasures soon will be available to scholars around the world, thanks to the Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences’ </span>Grants<a href="https://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/initiatives/asgrants" style="line-height: 20.8px;"> </a>Program for Digital Collections<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">, which this year awarded four grants.</span></p>

Anthropology professor's book honored with three prizes

Local Native Indian history buried in obscurity

<p>Ithaca is dotted with buried Native American sites, according to Kurt Jordan, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, who also has an appointment with theAmerican Indian Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.</p><p>Yet these sites are incredibly difficult to comprehend because centuries of residential and commercial development has altered the landscape.</p>

Symposium to examine prisoners' human rights

<p>On Monday, Oct. 5, leading human rights lawyers and prison ethnographers will gather for an international symposium to discuss “Carceral Worlds and Human Rights across the Americas” at the Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road, from 10 a.m. to noon.</p>

Excited about the pope's visit? Read 'Laudato Si'

<p>In light of <a href="http://n.pr/1h3cumH">Pope Francis’</a> recent visit to the United States, Vincent Ialenti, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, and <a href="http://bit.ly/1MXxWb4">Annelise Riles</a>, a professor of anthropology, encouraged people in<a href="http://n.pr/1h3cumH"> this NPR column</a> to read the letter he wrote to all of us, Laudato Si.</p>

Chloe Ahmann

I am a historical and environmental anthropologist studying how people politicize “impure” environments in the long afterlife of American industry. Much of my work is based in Baltimore, where I follow industrialism’s enduring traces in toxified landscapes, patchy regulation, quotidian expressions of white supremacy, and particular orientations toward time. I am especially interested in what kinds of environmental futures take form amid these legacies.

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Alex Nading

I am a medical and environmental anthropologist. My research, mostly focused on Nicaragua, has examined transnational campaigns against dengue fever, bacterial disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as grassroots movements to address these issues. In all my work, I use ethnographic methods to bring the theoretical concerns of medical anthropology together with those of critical environmental studies and science and technology studies. My teaching includes courses on the anthropology of global health, anthropological methods, and international development. From 2021 to 2024, I was the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

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One year after Nepal earthquake, anthropology researchers reflect

<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1VUwCVT">This piece</a> by <a href="http://bit.ly/1anaByP">David H. Holmberg </a>and <a href="http://bit.ly/1HxPJ1V">Kathryn S. March</a>, both professors of anthropology, reflects on the Nepali earthquakes and their impact in north central Nepal.</p>

Anthropology professor receives Boyer Prize

<p>Anthropology professor P. Steven Sangren has been awarded the Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA). The award, which includes a $500 cash prize, will be announced at the AAA’s Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, on November 20.</p>

Nilgiris Field Learning Center in Tamil Nadu

Growing global: Cornell expands opportunities for international experiences

<p><a href="http://anthropology.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=acw24">Andrew Willford</a>, associate professor of anthropology, is a faculty member who led a group of seven Cornell students who studied and worked at the <a href="https://blogs.cornell.edu/nflc/">Nilgiris Field Learning Center</a> in Tamil Nadu in southern India as part of a brand-new semester abroad program, which includes indigenous communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.</p>

Anthropologist Terence Turner dies at 79

<p>Visiting Professor of Anthropology Terence Sheldon Turner, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, died Nov. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79.</p>

New book explores how objects support political power

<p>From Bronze Age traditions of mortuary ritual and divination to current controversies over flag pins and Predator drones, a new book by anthropology professor <a href="http://anthropology.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=ats73">Adam Smith</a> sheds light on how material goods authorize and defend political order.</p>

Roundtable weighs Chinese political developments

<p>A panel of professors including <a href="http://government.arts.cornell.edu/faculty/weiss/" style="line-height: 27.7333px;">Jessica Chen Weiss</a> in <span style="line-height: 27.7333px;">government weighed in recently on China's civil rights crackdowns.</span></p>

Society for the Humanities Celebrates 50th Anniversary

<p>For 50 years, the Society for the Humanities has fostered path-breaking scholarship in the humanities. It has sponsored numerous internal grants, workshops and funding opportunities for Cornell faculty and graduate students in the humanities, as well as hosting over 100 annual lectures, workshops, colloquia and conferences organized by Cornell’s distinguished humanities faculty.</p>

Costume, photo collections inspire first-year seminars

<p>Students used Cornell’s photography and textile collections in creative ways as they developed research, critical thinking and writing skills in a pair of fall first-year writing seminars.</p>

Lucinda Ramberg awarded Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize

<div><p><a href="http://anthropology.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=ler35">Lucinda Ramberg</a> has been awarded the first Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize by the Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA) for her book <em><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/given-to-the-goddess">Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion</a> </em>(Duke University Press).</p></div>

Noah Tamarkin

Noah Tamarkin is an associate professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies. His book Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa (Duke University Press in 2020) received the 2022 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore from the Association for Jewish Studies and the 2022 honorable mention for the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association's Committee for the Anthropology of Science Technology and Computing, Society for the Anthropology of Work, and General Anthropology Division. It ethnographically examines the politics of race, religion, and recognition among Lemba people, Black South Africans who were part of Jewish genetic ancestry studies in the 1980s and 1990s. His current ethnographic research examines the introduction and implementation of South Africa’s national forensic DNA database, the forensic genetics networks that it has fostered, and its implications for postapartheid South African and global politics of surveillance statecraft, human rights, and carcerality. His next project considers trans health as experimental practice through which bodies and expertise are reconfigured. At Cornell, he teaches courses that explore race and religion; borders and belonging; policing, carcerality and abolition; biology and society; and the temporalities of genetics. He is also a research associate at University of Witwatersrand’s Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone talks with students at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy High School in Los Angeles

Alumni key to building Shoah archive and bringing access to Cornell

<p>When Douglas Greenberg, M.A. '71, Ph.D. '74, was analyzing 6,000 court cases for his dissertation on crime and law enforcement in 18th-century New York City, computers were not in widespread use. But he realized technology could make his research more efficient.</p>

Engaged Cornell graduate grants fund 4 A&S graduate students

<p> Ten Cornell doctoral students will work with community partners in New York state and around the world on individual research projects supported by Engaged Cornell. The first <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/funding/graduate-student-grants/rfp-2016/">Engaged Graduate Student Grants</a> were announced by Vice Provost Judith Appleton.</p>

Juno Salazar Parreñas

Juno Salazar Parreñas is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.She examines human-animal relations, environmental issues, and efforts to institutionalize justice.She is the author ofDecolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation(Duke UP, 2018), which received the 2019 Michelle Rosaldo Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology and honorable mentions for the 2020 Harry Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, the 2019 Society for Medical Anthropology’s New Millennium Book Award and the 2019 Anthropology of Work and Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing’s Diana Forsythe Prize. Her articles appear in such journals asAmerican Ethnologist, Anthropology and History,Cahiers d’Anthropologie Sociale, Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience, Environmental Humanities, History and Theory,positions: asia critique,andTapuya: Latin American Science, Technology, and Society.Her article, “Producing Affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center,” received the 2013 General Anthropology Division’s Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship Prize. She is a former columnist for the Los Angeles based monthly magazine The Lesbian News. Her collaborations and conversations with artists such as Daniel Lie, Ines Lechleitner and Islands Songs (Nicolas Perret and Sylvia Ploner) have been hosted by MoMA, Ö1 Kunstradio, and Dokumenta 14. At Cornell, she teaches a range of interdisciplinary courses that include environmental ethics, introduction to feminist, gender and sexuality studies, as well as courses that speak to Southeast Asian studies.

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