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Congratulations to our PhD student, Felix Kisena, on their Wadsworth International Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation !

Congratulations to Justin Pargeter and Guilhem Mauran on receiving a research grant from the PAST AFRICA Foundation to support two southern African master students, Malesetla Sepamo and Petrus Tangeni, who will work on ochre collections from Boomplaas Cave! Justin Pargeter

Congratulations to Culture & Media students whose films were selected for the Emerging Visual Anthropologists showcase at the May 2024 Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, and Professors Pegi Vail and Cheryl Furjanic.

NYU News profiles Eva Fuentes (CAS Anthropology ’24), who is soon heading to Washington University for her PhD to work with our own Cody Prang (GSAS Anthropology ’19)! nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Congrats to Drs. Alejandra Ortiz, Susan Antón & Kathleen Paul for an NSF to study internal and external shape of teeth in primates. wp.nyu.edu/csho/

Congrats to Prof. Amy Zhang on her new grant from NYU’s Fund for Research in China! Prof. Zhang was recently awarded a Center for Humanities Working Group Grant with Robyn d’Avignon and Dean Chahim to convene a Working Group on “Environment and Power” from 2024-2026.

Together with colleagues, Prof. James Higham co-authored a manuscript published in Science showing that Hurricane Maria increased the value of social tolerance in the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques. The article was featured as the Science cover material.

We are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty members, Maryani Rasidjan and Lara Sánchez-Morales!

NYU seeks an Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology URL: apply.interfolio.com/153021

Congrats to Pegi Vail on additional 2024 Ford Foundation JustFilms funding in support of the film she is producing, “Shadow of Nanook” (Directors: Jim Compton, Peadar King)! URL: documentaries.org/films/shadow-o…

NYU seeks an Assistant Professor in Legal Anthropology. URL: apply.interfolio.com/153672

Please join us for a lecture by archaeologist Robert Nyamushosho on September 25th at 6pm 25 Waverly Place (Kriser Auditorium)! Please see the link below for more information: aia-nysociety.org/9-25-24-robert…

Congrats to PhD student, Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert, for winning the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Their project is titled, "Reigniting the Flame of Kituwah: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Infrastructures of Reclamation, Remembering, and Resurgence".

Jane Anderson's collaborative work in Indigenous Data Sovereignty is featured in Science. science.org/content/articl…

Congratulations to Izzy Benner and Serena Shepard on receiving Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Grants for Fall 2024! 🎉👏

Congratulations also to Jacob Traumer on a well earned Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund Grant for Fall 2024!

Congrats to Pegi Vail! Whose feature documentary-in-progress, They Measured Our Heads, has been awarded two grants: New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) individual artist award and another from the Irish Institute of New York.

Congratulations to Prof. Justin Pargeter and his collaborator, Guilhem Mauran, on receiving a grant from the Leakey Foundation for their research, 'The social contexts of glacial-interglacial ochre exploitation at Boomplaas Cave.'

We’re pleased to announce this year’s Departmental Award recipients: Annette B. Weiner Prize — Serena Shepard Department of Anthropology Prize — Sophie Bakke Edward Sapir Prize — Taylor Sindle Congratulations to all!

We're delighted to share that Serena Shepard has won the Albert Borgman/Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Prize in Social Science for her outstanding Honors Thesis in Anthropology, "Disabled in Action: From Erasure to Visibility"