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A selection of recent articles: What is anti-Semitism? Ilhan Omar comments prompt resolution and bitter fight over Israel criticismNewsweek, 3/2019, Jonathan Aaron Boyarin Walls Don’t Work. Social Security Does. AmericasDemocrats.org, 2/2019, Adam Smith 'Dead' Uyghur poet Abdurehim Heyit appears on Chinese state media, says he's...
Eudes is a Cornell PhD candidate who holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He grew up in Brazil, France and the United States, all of which inform the arc of his core intellectual pursuit: how economic thought shapes the state and its financial...
How do indigenous movements bring about new forms of political sovereignty in global borderland zones, operating between the logics of the state and international human rights law? Against a backdrop of ongoing armed conflict, the extraction of coveted resources, and neocolonial technocratic interventions, my research explores how Kachin...
SUNSPOTS | What’s the Best Course You’ve Taken at Cornell?The Sunspots writers looked back and wrote about the best courses they’ve taken thus far at Cornell. Amber Krisch '21 selected an Anthropology course taught by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö.Amber Krisch ’21: My first semester freshman year, I decided it would be adventurous to take an...
Why do people eat the food they eat? Why do consumers in East Asia choose to incorporate bread into their daily diets, alongside or over rice? What kinds of social meanings are embedded within these changing everyday culinary practices and this diversification of foodstuff? As people in East Asia have consumed and continue to consume more and more...
Assistant Professor: Ethnographic Filmmaking/Visual AnthropologyDepartment of AnthropologyCornell University The Department of Anthropology at Cornell University, in collaboration with the Department of Performing and Media Arts, invites applications for a tenure-track position in ethnographic filmmaking/visual anthropology at the...
Assistant Professor: Environmental AnthropologyDepartment of Anthropology at Cornell University The Department of Anthropology at Cornell University invites applications for a tenure-track position in environmental anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek a colleague who takes an ethnographic...
Congratulations to all of our graduates. We wish you the very best in the future. We can’t wait to hear where your road leads you. Doctor of PhilosophyCharis BokeCan DalyanAimee DouglasVincent IalentiTimothy McLellanMariana Saavedra EspinosaAshley SmithSophie Ifan Wu Master of ArtsRebekah CiribassiGabrielle Borenstein...
Senior Anthropology Major Elise Czuchna reflects on her experiences at Cornell as she prepares for graduation.Why did you major in Anthropology? Cornell University was a vastly different environment from the homogenous suburban Texas community in which I had been raised. I wanted to engage in conversations across differences and to broaden my...
Bureaucracy is a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary scientific practice.In United Kingdom universities, for example, the state is generating ever more rigorous systems of audit through which researchers must demonstrate the quantifiable “impact” of their research “beyond academia." China is no exception to this trend with global funding and...
The Department of Anthropology is excited to celebrate Giving Day on March 20th. We hope alumni, parents, and friends will consider supporting Anthropology with a gift on this special day. Donations to the department support faculty and students with anthropological training and experiences in the classroom, in the Collections, at our events,...
Department of Anthropology in the news recently:Einaudi Center to provide research help to doctoral students, Cornell Chronicle, Hirokazu MiyazakiAlumna explores Colonialism in Puerto Rico in aftermath of Maria, A&S Communications, Rosa Ficek ’03New York City events honor Triangle fire victims, focus on new activists, Cornell Chronicle,...
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the 2017-18 recipients of the Freedman Awards for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology and Engaged Learning in Anthropology Scholarships. Ivy Deng and Mikaela Hamilton received Freedman Awards, funded by an endowment established by Randy ‘75 and Howard ‘74, MBA ‘75 Freedman. The Freedman...
Denise Green received the 2018 Richard Martin Exhibition Award from the Costume Society of America for the exhibit she curated, “The Biggest Little Fashion City: Ithaca & Silent Film Style.” Stacey Langwick was awarded a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Kathryn March is part of the team that was awarded a fall...
PhD Candidate Elena Guzman received a Mellon Mays dissertation writing grant for next year. The title of her dissertation is "Performing on the Fringes: Cross-Border Dialogues and Networks in Haiti and the Dominican Republic." Elena describes her project below. During the fellowship as a part of the MMUF dissertation writing fellowship...
At the end of 2014, a detention center was opened in a small town in South Texas with the intent to house asylum-seeking mothers and their children as they entered into initial legal proceedings. This facility is officially known as the South Texas Family Residential Center and is presently the largest immigrant detention center in the U.S. I...
Paul Nadasdy, associate professor of anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous studies, has been named chair of the Department of Anthropology. Nadasdy assumed the role at the start of the spring 2018 semester. Adam T. Smith, Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology, stepped down as chair in 2017.Nadasdy joined the Department of...
Professor Lucinda Ramberg contributed a chapter to a new edited volume titled Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality. Ramberg's chapter is Queering Caste: Casting Religion and Sexing Gender in South India. Published by Women Unlimited, the volume explores the changed terrain of discussion, and examines how religion, political and...
I am a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology. My work combines psychological and medical anthropology to understand the complex effects of state power on marginalized communities.For my dissertation research, I conducted two years of fieldwork among the Lisu in the Nu River Valley of Southwest China on the border of Tibet and Myanmar—part...
On behalf of the Department of Anthropology, congratulations to our students on these fantastic accomplishments. Best wishes for your continuing success. Bachelor of ArtsEden Doh Master of ArtsSamantha SanftOradi InkhongAlexandra DalferroElif Sari Doctor of PhilosophyDambar Dhoj ChemjongAimee DouglasVincent Ialenti...
Students from Professor Matthew Velasco's Human Osteology course took a field trip to New York City to visit the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). The excursion was intended to provide students with an opportunity to engage with practitioners in the field of forensic anthropology. It not only accomplished that, but also evolved into a ...
Annelise Riles, Professor of Anthropology, received the Anneliese Maier Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation. The Anneliese Maier Award is a collaboration award to promote the internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany. It honors researchers in the humanities and social sciences whose academic...
David Holmberg, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, will give the Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture at 2:30 pm on December 11 in Kathmandu. The title of his talk is "Ethnography, History, Culture: Enduring Oppositions and Creative Dynamism in Nepal."The annual Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture was instituted by Social Science Baha to...
Alumna Update: Courtney Work '14 was awarded a 2017 NEH Senior Humanities Research Fellowship from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Congratulations, Courtney! "Climate Change and Co-management in Prey Lang: Social experiments in conflict transformation"This project will investigate new collaborative initiatives between sub-...
Department of Anthropology in the news recently:Trump's Asia trip is a risky obstacle course due to red lines he himself has drawn, USA Today, Annelise Riles Faculty weigh in on ‘Tyranny’ book at community read, Cornell Chronicle, Jonathan Boyarin Students Debate Puerto Rico’s Relationship with United States, Cornell Daily Sun, Vilma...