Q&A with Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford (MPH ‘05, GRS ‘09)
Interview with Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford (MPH ‘05, GRS ‘09) on her work and research after BU!
Alumni Omar Sharifi awarded a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UMN
The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota has awarded Omar Sharifi (BU Anthropology Graduate Alum) a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global Policy that lasts for two-years and will begin on August 28, 2023. He will also teach one course a semester at UMN. Congratulations Omar!
Alumni Natalie Robinson awarded NSF Fellowship
BU Anthropology Alumni and current Program Coordinator at Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program Natalie Robinson has won an NSF GFRP (National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship) for her project entitled: “Comparative Assessment of Female Reproductive Hormones in Two Populations of Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) & Implications for primate conservation”. Congratulations, Natalie!
READ: Alum Michael Sheridan’s book, ROOTS OF POWER
Alum Michael Sheridan’s new book, Roots of Power, comes out on 4/21. Find it at: https://www.routledge.com/Roots-of-Power-The-Political-Ecology-of-Boundary-Plants/Sheridan/p/book/9781032411408. It’s a multi-sited ethnography of plants as property rights institutions, with chapters about Tanzania, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and St. Vincent. Sheridan says that this book is the long-term result of discussing Roy Rappaport’s Pigs for the […]
READ: Alum Huwy-min Lucia Liu’s book, GOVERNING DEATH, MAKING PERSONS
Published by Cornell University Press, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping […]
READ: Spring 2023 Department Newsletter
We just published our Spring 2023 Newsletter which is the 13th edition of our department newsletter! Catch up on department news, alumni and faculty profiles, and upcoming events! If you have any news you would like to see in our next newsletter pleases send it here. In our next newsletter we would like to highlight […]
READ: alum Michael Sheridan’s upcoming book, ROOTS OF POWER: THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF BOUNDARY PLANTS
Published by Routledge, you can view and purchase Michael’s book for pre-order here: https://www.routledge.com/Roots-of-Power-The-Political-Ecology-of-Boundary-Plants/Sheridan/p/book/9781032411408 Book Description: “Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania, dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights institutions, markers of […]
READ: alum Carol Ferrara’s article, “Breaking the Republican mold: French independent schools and agonistic pluralism amidst Franco-conformity”
From Carol:”Check out my new article about “hors contrat” or independent schools in France and what they can tell us about the surprising accommodation of pluralism at the boundaries of French Republicanism. Hot off the presses from French Cultural Studies!” You can read the article, published in French Cultural Studies and online in Sage journals, […]
Q&A with Jade Isabella Lau (CAS ’21)
Jade Isabella Lau earned a BA in Anthropology & Religion with honors from CAS in May 2021. Her senior thesis focused on the representation of Chinese indentured laborers in Cuba from 1847 to 1894. Following graduation, Jade was one of eighteen selected for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Vietnam. She currently teaches English […]
READ: alumni Andrea DiGiorgio & Natalie Robinson’s article with Prof. Knott et al., “Famished Frugivores or Choosy Consumers: A generalist frugivore (wild Bornean Orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) leaves available fruit for non-fruit foods”
Alumna Andrea DiGiorgio recently had a paper accepted with With Cheryl Knott, Natalie Robinson, Suchi Gopal (E&E), Yaxiong Ma (E&E), and Elizabeth Upton (Stats) from BU as co-authors: “Famished Frugivores or Choosy Consumers: A generalist frugivore (wild Bornean Orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) leaves available fruit for non-fruit foods” The article, published in the International […]