Archaeology graduate student Craig Stevens has curated a virtual and augmented reality exhibition of African artifacts with curator Esmerelda Kale at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Link to write-up below: craig sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternli…

Cultural anthropology PhD candidate Sofyan Ansori is featured in the Talking Indonesia podcast discussing his insights on forest fires from fieldwork with the Indigenous Dayak people in Central Kalimantan. Sofyan Ansori indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/talking-indone…

Congratulations to recent Northwestern archaeology PhD graduate Jennifer Lupu, who has been awarded a research fellowship at the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry! Jenn

Cultural anthropology PhD candidate Sofyan Ansori edited a special issue for Antropologi Indonesia on environmental narratives. Read more below: Sofyan Ansori scholarhub.ui.ac.id/jai/vol44/iss2/

Congratulations to faculty member Emrah Yildiz for receiving the Global Horizons Junior Fellowship with The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study for the 2024-2025 academic year!

NU cultural anthropology PhD Sindhunata Hargyono has accepted the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at Leuphana University Luneburg on the ERC Project Doing Digital Identities (DigID) with the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). Congrats Sindhunata!

Congratulations to NU cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for receiving The Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW)’s Eric R. Wolf Prize for her paper “Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant as Intellectual” Amrina is doing fieldwork 🗑️ saw.americananthro.org/pub/saw-honore…

NU Anthropology PhD student Gerpha Gerlin participated in a podcast profiling her journey co-developing a course alongside her TA, Bobaloo, who is incarcerated. The course will be taught at Stateville Correctional Center in Winter 2024. Listen here! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pedag…

NU PhD Candidate Syd González published a piece titled "The Sanctity of 2AM Fic Time" in Anthropology News' Silence issue. This piece highlights the importance of fanfiction in times of silence. Syd🗡✨ Read here: anthropology-news.org/articles/the-s…

Congratulations to NU cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for receiving the Pattana Kitiarsa SEAC Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper “Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant as Intellectual” asianstudies.org/aas-2024-prize… Congrats Amrina is doing fieldwork 🗑️ !

NU cultural anthropology PhD Candidate Sofyan Ansori's work is featured in Mongabay in a piece titled, “2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño.”  You can find it here:  news.mongabay.com/2024/01/2023-f…. Congratulations Sofyan Ansori !

NU biological anthropology PhD Candidate James K Gibb published a journal titled "Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic" Read here: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S… James K Gibb 🏳️‍🌈

NU medical anthropology MPH/PhD student Gerpha Gerlin was recently interviewed as an advisory council member for the Northwestern Prison Education Program on mental health programming at Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers. Read more here: sites.northwestern.edu/npep/2024/01/3…

Congrats to anthropology PhD candidate Elijah Watson for receiving the Edward E. Hunt, Jr. Award for his presentation "Evaluating the convergent and predictive validity of epigenetic age acceleration measured from common epigenetic clocks in Cebu, Philippines” Congrats Elijah!

Prof. Emrah Yildiz has just published kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق: Fugitive Forms of Bureaucracy and Economy across Southwest Asia—a special issue he edited for the Journal of Cultural Economy 17(2). Read the volume and his article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations Professor Amanda Logan for being awarded the Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant! This grant is for her project titled "Environmental and human health at the medieval urban center of Ile-Ife, Nigeria"

Congratulations cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for being awarded the Wenner-Gren dissertation fieldwork grant! This grant is for her project titled "Dirty Business: Claiming Citizenship through Waste Practices and Politics in Indonesia" Amrina is doing fieldwork 🗑️

Professor Emrah Yildiz's first monograph titled "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders" has been published today by the University of California Press. Congrats Emrah! ucpress.edu/book/978052037…