WATCH: Grad Gana Ndiaye’s documentary, Senegalese Immigrant Lives in Brazil Beyond Street Vending
Check it out – Grad Gana Ndiaye has produced a documentary now available for viewing on YouTube: no Brasil: para além da economia informal (Senegalese Immigrant Lives in Brazil Beyond Street Vending). Check it out here: https://youtu.be/jZjiqkYA5Cw. Congratulations Gana!
READ: Alum Katharine Keenan’s book, Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention
Check out Belfast Imaginary, published by one of Frank Korom’s former students and alum, Katharine Keenan, here! “In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the context of Brexit. This deeply researched ethnography depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and […]
READ: Alum Calynn Dowler’s IPCC report, “Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s report on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability was finalized on February 27th. Here is the link to the full report: https://www.ipcc.ch/…/sixth-assessment-report-working…/ Calynn is a contributing author for the chapter on Water, which is available here: https://report.ipcc.ch/…/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FinalDraft… The report states: “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a […]
READ: Alum Erica Larson’s article, “Learning to navigate the ethics of boundaries: schools, youth, and inter-religious relationships in Manado, Indonesia”
BU alum Erica Larson recently published an article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute! The article is entitled “Learning to navigate the ethics of boundaries: schools, youth, and inter-religious relationships in Manado, Indonesia” and you can read it here! https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13702
PhD Alumnae, Sarah Tobin, delivers lecture on Islamic social finance and how the potential can be unlocked in times of humanitarian crisis
Dr. Tobin’s lecture will be launched and published on the Islamic Research and Training Institute’s edX-channel as part of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) organized by the United Nations Development Programme – UNDP. Want to know more about the CMI research that this particular lecture is based upon? Check out the project website ‘The […]
READ: Alum Laura Heath-Stout’s article, “The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist”
Entitled “The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist”, Heath-Stout’s article was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on the theme of “Health, Wellness, and Ability” edited by Stacey Camp, Jodi Barnes, and Sarah Surface-Evans. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-022-00653-8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10761-022-00653-8 (From Laura: If you want to read it and are hitting a paywall, […]
BU Lecturer and Anthropology Alumnus Chun-Yi Sum published journal article on ethnicity and identity!
Dr. Chun-Yi Sum (Lecturer College of General Studies BU & BU AN Alumnus) published an article with Tami Blumenfield, Siobhán Mattison, and Mary K. Shenk, in Modern China. Dr. Chun-Yi Sum will also be teaching a course on Ethnicity and Identity this fall. Read “Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, […]
Asia Research Institute Publishes Article by BU Alum Erica Larson
An article written by BU Alum Erica Larson was published online by the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. The article details what Indonesian schools teach about religious tolerance and the consequences of such decisions on students and Indonesia as a whole. Read the article here!
BU Anthropology has a huge presence at AAPA 2021 & NEEP 2020
A number of our current and former undergraduates, graduates, post-docs and faculty presented or were co-authors on papers or posters at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical (now Biological) Anthropologists in April 2021. These included, graduate student Christian Gagnon, Andrea Blackburn (GRS 2021), Amy Scott (GRS 2021), Andrea DiGiorgio (GRS 2019), Caitlin […]
Natalie Laudicina (GRS ’19) promoted to assistant professor!
Anthropology alum Natalie Laudicia (GRS ’19) has been promoted to assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Grand Valley State University, MI, where she began as a visiting professor. Congratulations, Natalie!! Check out her faculty bio here.