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Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Cornell University Summer Session will be held entirely online. The following Anthropology courses are being offered this summer:Human Evolution: Genes, Behavior, and the Fossil Record (ANTHR 1300)Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues (ANTHR 2400) Anthropology of Parenting (ANTHR 3305) ANTHR 1300 Human...
Cultural anthropologist Noah Tamarkin was hired as an Assistant Professor for a joint position in the Department of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. Tamarkin's research focuses on genetic evidence as a cultural, political, and legal phenomenon, especially as it intersects with race and citizenship in South Africa. He is...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Amiel Bize was hired to be an Assistant Professor in Economic Anthropology at Cornell University. Bize is an anthropologist whose work explores social and economic transformations at capitalist margins, with particular research and teaching interests in value, rural spaces, and financial...
Matthew Velasco, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been named a 2020 Career Enhancement Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, creates career development opportunities for selected faculty fellows with promising research projects. The...
Reading Derrida and OthersWe will read together a wide range of modern European texts-mostly but not exclusively by at least nominally Jewish authors, many of them working in the German intellectual tradition--accompanied by a range of works by Jacques Derrida that engage those thinkers and their texts. Authors will likely include Theodor w....
This course will be taught in Fall 2020.This course considers race and religion as critical sites of lived experience and anthropological analysis with implications for how we approach difference and belonging, violence and inequality, and historical and contemporary forms of power. How does race matter when thinking about religion, how does...
This course will be taught in Fall 2020.Jewish communities have thrived in diaspora since long before the destruction of the Second Temple. What binds and divides those communities? Diaspora may be the product of exile, but can also be a sign of group energy and creativity. And while a liturgical focus on Jerusalem and the Holy Land remains the...
This course will be taught in Fall 2020. How is citizenship both an ideal of formal equality as well as a mechanism for the elaboration of social inequity? Although the concept of citizenship is premised on liberal ideals of enfranchisement, the rise of xenophobic nationalisms globally have revealed the very notion of...
This new course will be taught in Fall 2020.What are the historical factors that have led to food insecurity? In this course, we consider examples from around the world to engage with that question. We address both food production, including the sustainability of agriculture and food processing, as well as distribution, including political...
This new anthropology course will be taught in Fall 2020. How do humans organize production, distribution, exchange, and consumption? What social, political, environmental, and religious values underlie different forms of economic organization? And how do they produce racial, ethnic, class, gender, and sexual inequalities?This course uses a...
This new course will be taught in Fall 2020. Global Mental Health is a growing and important field within the general category of Global Public Health. Anthropology has an established and long history of contributing to the debates about cross-cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as to the perennial questions of nature versus nurture...
The Department of Anthropology is excited to welcome Chloe Ahmann to the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Anthropology. Ahmann is currently a Collegiate Assistant Professor and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. Her work is based in late industrial Baltimore, where she explores climate change interventions that...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Natasha Raheja will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Ethnographic Filmmaking and Visual Anthropology. Raheja is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department. She will officially begin her new role July 1, 2020.Natasha Raheja is an ethnographic filmmaker and visual...
Medical anthropologist Alex Nading will join the Department of Anthropology faculty as an Associate Professor in July 2020. Nading is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. His work examines the interface of biomedicine, public health, and environmental change in Latin America...
During the Fall 2019 semester, Courtney Noll was awarded an Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarship. Courtney utilized funds from this award to do fieldwork in Southeast Asia over winter break. Courtney is working on an honors thesis research project examining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Timor-Leste. Courtney is a senior majoring in...
Stacey Langwick, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, was one of eight faculty members recognized for excellence in teaching undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education at the university.The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell...
Brooke Laskowsky (Anthropology and Archaeology, '20) recently presented preliminary results from her undergraduate thesis research at the Northeast Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, hosted by Brown University. The conference was November 2-3, 2019. This annual two-day conference consisted of lectures and posters...
"Love and the Goddess” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores marriage between girls and a goddess in South India. The podcast series’ third season -- "What Do We Know about Love?" -- showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about the relationship between humans and love.“Love must be given freely,...
Doreen Lee, Cornell Anthropology PhD '07, was awarded the Harry J. Benda Prize for her book Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia. The award, which honors one of the pioneers in the field of Southeast Asian studies, is given annually by the Association for Asian Studies to an outstanding newer scholar from any...
Erin Grohe '19 is majoring in Human Development in the College of Human Ecology, and minoring in Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. What inspired you to minor in Anthropology? Do you have a specific area of interest? Why is this work important?Anthropology provides a wholistic framework for understanding our world. It is not...
Nominally a “transition” country, Turkey has become a waiting room for refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. As the tightening asylum policies of European and North American countries have severely undermined the prospect for refugees’ resettlement, hundreds of thousands of refugees have been stranded in Turkey with unpredictable legal...
BOOKSWild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of An Endangered SpeciesBy Adam Clark Arcadi The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global CityBy Andrew Willford ARTICLES“The Muddy Semiotics of Mud” Luisa Cortesi, The Journal of Political Ecology “‘Beyoncé and Her Husband’: Representing Infidelity...
Faculty and members of the field of AnthropologyCaitlín E. Barrett was awarded a Fulbright Grant for research in Greece in the coming fall semester.Denise Green received the Betty Kirke Award for Excellence in Research from the Costume Society of America; the Rising Star Award from the International Textile and Apparel Association; the ...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Henry Gonzalez was awarded the Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology. Henry Gonzalez is a senior majoring in Africana Studies, with a minor in Anthropology. The Freedman Award was funded by an endowment established by Randy ‘75 and Howard ‘74, MBA ‘75 Freedman. The...
Nicole Blumenfeld '20 and Annika Bjerke '19 were awarded Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarships in support of their travel and research. Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarships were established by an anonymous donor to support students who seek training in anthropological techniques or who would like to participate in...