News

June 10, 2019

Professor Emeritus Steven Shackley awarded Fryxell Medal

June 5, 2019

Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn and Visiting Scholar Xiangchun Zheng Win Best Paper Award at International Conference on Wine Research

 

February 28, 2019

PROFESSOR SUNSERI WINS EXCELLENCE IN LABORATORY SAFETY AWARD

Certificate for Excellence in lab Safety, field Sciences, awarded to Jun Sunseri

JOHN CHENOWETH (BERKELEY PHD, 2011) WINS THE 2019 JOHN L. COTTER AWARD

Pictured are Laurie Wilkie (Department of Anthropology, Berkeley and John's primary advisor), John Chenoweth, center, and Dr. Mark Warner, President of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

February 25, 2019

Michigan State University College of Social Science
UC Berkeley Anthropology's Gabriel Sanchez Accepted as a Post-Doc at Michigan State University

Gabriel Sanchez

Four new research associates have been hired in the College of Social Science (CSS). The CSS Dean’s Research Associate Program at Michigan State University was established in 2018 as a major college initiative aimed at promoting an inclusive scholarly environment.

September 20, 2018

Fall 2018 UC Berkeley AUA Elections

Congratulations to the new board members of the Anthropology Undergraduate Association for Fall 2018!

Co-Presidents: Anna Schiff + Nicholas Shafer

Secretary: Frederik Boumeester

Publicist: Ryann Hyrrt

Historian: Ashley Holt

Learn more about AUA here. 

September 12, 2018

Elizabeth Colson dies in Zambia at 99
Date/Time: Monday, September 12, 2016 - 12:30

Anthropology professor emerita Elizabeth Colson dies at 99 years old in Zambia at 99 years old. Refer to the article below for comments about Colson's work, life, and research from her colleagues and friends. You can also check out her biography below. 

June 19, 2018

In Remembrance of William S. Simmons

William S. Simmons of Providence, 79, passed away on June 2 after a battle with cancer. 

Bill S. Simmons was born in Providence on September 10, 1938 to William and Lena (Roberts) Simmons. He attended Classical High School and Brown University and earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University.

Honoring Herbert Phineas Phillips

Herbert P. Phillips passed away peacefully at home on May 22, 2018, surrounded by his family and several dear friends.

May 17, 2018

Laura Nader's New Book "Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia"

Prof. Laura Nader's new book looks for the unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking in one field and stimulate boundary crossing in others.

Find out more about the book here. 

Natasha Fernández-Pérez and Amanda Guzman published in SAPIENS

Their piece explores how some memes can be a means of resistance to disaster, specifically in the context of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Find it here. 

April 19, 2018

Stanley Brandes's Retirement Celebration

April 16, 2018

Levi Vonk, a medical anthropology doctoral student, won second place internationally in the Rachel Tanur Prize in Visual Sociology

"The prize recognizes students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis in their work.  It is named for Rachel Dorothy Tanur (1958–2002), an urban planner and lawyer who cared deeply about people and their lives and was an acute observer of living conditions and human relationships."

Read more about the prize here: https://www.racheltanurmemorialprize.org/computer-wiz/

Dame Marilyn Strathern to Speak at UCB: 290 Lecture on 4/16 and Foerester Lecture on 4/17
Our next 290 speaker will be Professor Marilyn Strathern, who will be speaking twice for our campus. 
Dame Strathern will first present at our normal 290 hours, from 2-4pm next Monday, April 16th. Her abstract as follows:
Department's Summer Abroad Program in Peru Featured on Main Page of Berkeley.edu
We are excited to see Professor Vranich's Peru class featured on the main page of Berkeley.edu! Learn more about the course, archaeological survey, and student, Natalea Schager, in the main article entitled, "Soaring through Peru: Berkeley Student Turns Summer Research Into Augmented Reality App."

April 5, 2018

Nancy Scheper-Hughes "A Tale of Two Popes" Published on NACLA

Find the article here.

Graduate Student Annie Malcom Writes Piece for Quartz

Find the article here. 

Nancy Scheper-Hughes Shares A Few Words about Emma Deboncoeur

Remembering  Emma Deboncoeur

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

March 22, 2018  

March 19, 2018

Seth Holmes will receive the Honorable Mention Premio Iberoamericano Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association

Seth Holmes will receive the Honorable Mention Premio Iberoamericano Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) this summer (2018). He is receiving this honorable mention for the Spanish version of his book, Fruta Fresca, Cuerpos Marchitos: Trabajadores agricolas migrantes en Estados Unidos. 

March 12, 2018

Aihwa Ong featured in Tank Magazine

Professor Aihwa Ong has been featured in an article of Tank magazine. Tank is an independent UK-based boutique publication focused on contemporary culture, fashion, technology, and politics. Ong's interview with Thomas Roueché focuses on global technologies, modes of governing and citizenship in Asian contexts.