NEW Special Topics Course: AN 598 Primate Conversation with Professor Cheryl Knott
Check out the new Special Topics in Anthropology Course: AN 598 Primate Conservation with Professor Cheryl Knott, open for spring 2025 registration! The course will meet T/TH 11AM-12:15PM See the poster below for details! AN598 Primate Conservation Poster
New course, “Slavery and the In-Between,” offered by our new faculty member, Andree Cunningham
Check out AN 390/AA 400: Slavery and the In-Between, by our new faculty member Andree Cunningham!
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: Winter 2022 Department Newsletter
Our most recent department newsletter for Winter 2022 is now available! Read it HERE to catch up on department news, alumni and faculty profiles, and upcoming events!
Exciting new spring’23 course offered by Alize Arıcan: AN 594: Racial Formations in the Global South
Exciting new spring’23 course offered by Alize Alize Arıcan: AN 594: Racial Formations in the Global South
BU Anthropology is now on Instagram
BU Anthropology is now on Instagram! Give us a follow for news updates, department photos and more! https://www.instagram.com/buanthropology/
NEW FALL 2022 COURSE: AN 597 – A Natural History of the Human Pair Bond
Please check out this new special topic course for Fall 2022! The course is being taught by Professor Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, and centers around the evolutionary history of the human pair bond. See the poster below for more details!
New special topics courses added for Fall 2021!
Three new special topics courses are being added for Fall 2021! Check out AN593 A1: Decolonizing Museums taught by Professor Mark Auslander, B1: Anthropology of the New Middle Class taught by Professor Nancy Smith-Hefner, & C1: Readings in the Anthropology of Islam taught by Professor Robert Hefner. Read more about the courses here!
Emerging Scholars Program: Indigenous Archaeology & Community Engaged Research in the Americas
We’re excited to announce an Emerging Scholars Symposium, on “Indigenous Archaeology & Community Engaged Research in the Americas.” The Symposium will take place over the weekend of November 13, 2020. Check out our webpage for the event schedule, information about the speakers, and registration information.
Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai reviews book by BU author on The Wire
Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai reviews the new book by BU Journalism Professor Isabel Wilkerson on The Wire. Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, addresses how our lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. Read Appadurai’s review here. Find out more about Wilkerson’s book here.