Davíd Carrasco is featured in a new PBS series called Native America, a four-part series exploring the world created by America's First Peoples. Carrasco was included for his work in the religious worldviews of pre-Hispanic cultures of central Mexico and the story of the conquest/encuentro of the 16th century. The first episode will air on October 23. Check out the series trailer here!...

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Congratulations to George Paul Meiu for winning the 2018 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of Outstanding Single­-Authored Monograph for his book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017)! The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, awards this prize annually to “a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective that engages theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ studies.”

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Congratulations to Kaya Williams, a college fellow in the Department of Anthropology, for receiving a Spark Grant for Collaboration, Research, and Engagement! The grant will support a 2018-2019 project where she will engage students enrolled in her seminar course on whiteness in a collaborative production of an ethnographically driven podcast. The goal is to use ethnography as a tool to spark conversation and to illuminate the multifaceted contexts out of which scholarly knowledge is produced through the combination of collaboration, convening, and audio content... Read more about Kaya Williams awarded a Spark Grant!

Dr. Gunisha Kaur, A.M. '15, is an anesthesiologist and human rights researcher training the next generation of physicians on how to treat foreign-born patients. See her interview here. Read more about VIMEO: Dr. Gunisha Kaur, A.M. '15, on training future physicians on how to treat foreign-born patients