News

March 12, 2018

Obituary: Dr. Saba Mahmood, 1962-2018

February 7, 2018

Paul Rabinow Releases New Book, "Unconsolable Contemporary"

Graduate Student, Lucy Gill, Wins "Best of Conference" Award

At the 7th Biennial Graduate Research Conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Lucy Gill, a second year UCB anthropology graduate student, received the  "Best of the Conference" award  for her paper, "Centering Borderlands: Mobility and Multiculturalism in Prehispanic Central America."

January 29, 2018

Skeletal Biology Lab Wins Safety Award

EH&S and Department Safety Coordinators have awarded the skeletal biology lab, run by Prof. Sabrina Agarwal, a UC Berkeley Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award in the Small Field Sciences category.

Berkeley News, The Daily Californian
Emeritus Prof. Margaret Conkey Wins 2017 Huxley Award

Dr. Margaret Conkeyreceived the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2017 Thomas J. Huxley Memorial Medal for her pioneering exploration of feminist perspectives and gender issues in archaeology as well as new interpretations of European cave paintings from the Paleolithic era.

Read the Berkeley News Article Here

January 10, 2018

Aihwa Ong's book Fungible Life discussed at Inside Higher Ed

Professor Ong's brilliant book Fungible Life is discussed in an extensive blog post on Inside Higher Ed on deep internalization and infrastructure.

Click here to read the post.

January 7, 2018

Nancy Scheper-Hughes in the Washington Post
Date/Time: 
Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 18:30

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and director of Organs Watch. She advises the World Health Organization, the European Union and the United Nations.

December 5, 2017

Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs win 2017 New Millennium Award

Professors Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs have won the 2017 New Millennium Award, the Society for Medical Anthropology's major book prize, for the book they jointly authored, Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice.

December 2, 2017

Berkeley Blog features "About last night: Honduras elections" by Rosemary Joyce

November 2, 2017

Laura Nader's dedication to teaching and research recognized by The Daily Clog

May 15, 2017

A Reflection from Graduating Senior Chioma A.
UC Berkeley Senior Reflection: Chioma A.

Graduating senior and Los Angeles native Chioma talks about her time at Berkeley, her favorite professors and offers advice to new students.

What is your major, and why did you choose it?

May 2, 2017

“The devastation of the people”: an interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes

April 6, 2017

James Holston Receives Chancellor's Public Service Award for AppCivist Project
Date/Time:  Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 12:30

Professor James Holston has been named a recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Public Service for his collaborative project with the City of Vallejo--AppCivist.

An excerpt of AppCivist from their project's website (linked below):

March 9, 2017

QS Ranks UC Berkeley Anthropology Department #2 in the World
Date/Time: Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 11:30

February 10, 2017

City of Vallejo and Professor James Holston Partner on Participatory Budgeting Community Platform
Date/Time:  Friday, February 10, 2017 - 14:30

Quoted from the City of Vallejo's Press Release:
 

January 11, 2017

Rosemary Joyce Appointed to Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President Obama
Date/Time:  Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 15:00

December 9, 2016

Adam Curtis BBC Documentary "Hypernormalisation" Inspired by Professor Alexei Yurchak
Date/Time: 
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 14:30
Saba Mahmood Awarded 2016 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
Date/Time:  Friday, December 9, 2016 - 14:30

December 5, 2016

Charles Briggs wins Mentorship Award from Society for Medical Anthropology
Date/Time: 
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 13:30

November 18, 2016

Read Nancy Scheper-Hughes' "Radical Hope" Acceptance Speech for Tikkun's Radical Medical Anthropology Award
Date/Time: Friday, November 18, 2016 - 14:00

Nancy Scheper-Hughes was awarded Tikkun Magazine's award for Radical Medical Anthropology this year on their 20th anniversary celebration this past Sunday, November 13th. The talk is titled "Radical Hope Despite Present Difficulties." You can read her talk on Tikkun's website at the link below.