Check out Rachel Maus' UWaterloo Arts blog article featuring our very own Aicha Lariani!
Congratulations to Benjamin Scher MA '20, who will be graduating this summer with a PhD in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation from the University of Oxford! Ben is headed to a postdoctoral position in global health at Princeton in fall 2025.
Congratulations to Savannah Slimmon and Camila Font, recipients of the 2025 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards!
Congratulations to Hannah Clark and Cassie Sellers for winning Canada Graduate Scholarship -Master's (CGS-M) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)!
Congratulations to Bel Cairns, winner of the 2024 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Undergraduate Paper Award in the Course Paper category for their Anth 221/GSJ 221 paper: "Cis is a Slur": Twitter Takes on Performative Language Ideology
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Kasiah Ruddell is the recipient of this year's Sally Weaver Award.
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Aparajita Bhattacharya and Evengeline Strickland are the recipients of this year’s Sally Weaver Award.
Join the Department of Anthropology, alumni, and friends for the 2023 Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture:"After the Revolution: Islam in Post-2011 Egypt," presented by Amira Mittermaier, Professor of Religion and Anthropology from University of Toronto.
Prof. Elliott Prasse-Freeman (Department of Anthropology, National University of Singapore) joined us for a talk entitled "Ambiguous Archives: Recording a Rohingya Ethnos in Flux". He is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. His first book (Rights Refused, Stanford University Press) conveys how Burmese activists contest Myanmar's authoritarian military regime, while his second book explores Rohingya identity amidst dislocation and mass violence.
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to welcome Dr. Robin Higashi for a talk entitled "Qualitative and mixed methods research: Contributions of a medical anthropologist in the clinical research environment”. Dr. Higashi is Assistant Professor in the O’Donnell School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her research focuses on using qualitative methods to evaluate patient- and system-level healthcare barriers and to develop strategies to improve the health of underserved populations.