Graduate and Undergraduate Students Win Awards at the American Association of Biological Anthropology meeting in Baltimore
PhD candidate Melissa Zarate won the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation “A new reference mitochondrial genome for… More
Archaeology PhD Candidate Gabriel Vicencio Received the Alfonso Caso Medal
Archaeology PhD Candidate Gabriel Vicencio received the Alfonso Caso Medal for being the most distinguished graduate student of the master's degree program… More
Prof. Robert Weller delivered talks at British Academy in London and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan
Prof. Robert Weller delivered a talk at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan on April 1, 2025:… More
AN Alum Annika Aneko Schmeding Won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize
AN Alum, Annika Aneko Schmeding has won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize for her book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (2024 Stanford University… More
AN Faculty Wade Campbell and Student Ruofei Shang are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards
Two Anthropology Department members are awarded 2025 IDEAL Awards! Professor Wade Campbell is one of two faculty recipients of the 3rd annual… More
AN major Olivia Mills Awarded by BU Center for the Humanities
AN major Olivia Mills has been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee as one of the recipients of… More

AN major Ruofei Shang featured in CAS Student Spotlight Video
AN major Ruofei Shang is featured in this 2 minute video on her recent Communications internship at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination… More

READ: Prof Shipton’s co-edited book, Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience
Prof Parker Shipton has a new co-edited volume (with James P. Ito-Adler) out with Berghahn Books that includes chapters not only by himself but also… More

READ: New Publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Adli
Read new publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Aldi (PhD 2019)! Burak-Adli, Feyza. 2024. “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Ottoman Sheikh: Sufism, Modernity, and… More

READ: Hazal Aydin’s article, “The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening”
PhD student Hazal Aydin has a new article titled "The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening." Her piece… More