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• Noted in 'The New York Times'

  A recent New York Times op-ed cites Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke Press, 2015) by Associate Professor Gary Wilder (Anthropology) as a work that is pertinent to today’s global turmoil. Read more

• Anthropology Program Awarded Record Number of Dissertation Fellowships

  The Graduate Center’s Anthropology Program was awarded a record five International Dissertation Research Fellowships (IDRFs) by the Social Science Research Council — more than any other anthropology program in the United States. Read more

• GC Is Excellence

  GC students and faculty have garnered numerous awards and fellowships this year. Here, we celebrate a few. Read more

• Ancient Tooth Decay Suggests Neanderthals Were Locavores: William Harcourt-Smith

  What did Neanderthals eat? DNA evidence from the plaque in their teeth is offering new and enlightening clues, according to Assistant Professor William Harcourt-Smith (GC/Lehman, Anthropology). Read more

• Setha Low Awarded Major Anthropology Prize for Distinguished Achievement

  Professor Setha M. Low (Anthropology/Environmental Psychology) has won the 2016 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, bestowed by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Read more

• Setha Low Receives Inaugural Anthropology Scholar Award

  Professor Setha M. Low (Anthropology/Environmental Psychology), whose novel research focuses on the anthropology of space and place, has been awarded the inaugural Senior Scholar Award from the Society of Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). 
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• Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Ibrahim Named Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow

  ​Doctoral candidate Ahmed Ibrahim (Anthropology) has been named a 2016 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Read more

• Faculty Book: Marc Edelman

  

  Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements by Marc Edelman and Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. (2016 Practical Action Publishing) Read more

• Faculty Book: John Collins

  

  Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy by John F. Collins (2015, Duke University Press) Read more

• Mandana Limbert Awarded NEH Fellowship for ‘Becoming Arab’ Project

  Professor Mandana Limbert (GC/Queens, Anthropology) has been awarded a 2016-17 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for her project, “Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab.” Read more