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Manduhai Buyandelger among inaugural MCSC Seed Award Recipients

MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards

2022 GAD New Directions Awards: Christine J. Walley wins Honorable Mention

Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project (SECASP) Director, MIT Anthro Prof. Christine J. Walley

Graham M. Jones

MIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas

Amy Moran-Thomas

Amy Moran-Thomas receives the Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award

The MIT anthropologist is recognized for interdisciplinary work on health, climate, and equity.

Wild boar (sus scrova) family crossing a street in Berlin. Photo courtesy of Florian Moellers

"Expanding imagination for a livable future" — Bettina Stoetzer

A conversation with MIT anthropologist Bettina Stoetzer on her new book and her environmental justice class - Cover of MIT SHASS "Said and Done" magazine

Workers vote in an election for Local 1033 of the United Steelworkers of America. The local emerged after the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago, when 10 steelworkers striking for union recognition were killed. Credits: Photo: courtesy of the Southeast Chicago Historical Society Digital Archive

3 Questions: An anthropologist and a filmmaker on working-class lives in Chicago

A storytelling project by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel explores the social impacts of late 20th century deinstrustrialization.

Flipping the Ship: Ocean Waves, Media Orientations, and Objectivity at Sea

The FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP), a seagoing vessel managed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, offers an unorthodox vantage point on the sea.

Hurricane Hattie Belize, by Delvin "Pen" Cayetano, 1996, Oil on Canvas; ©2018 Artists Rights Society, New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; reproduced with permission | Image of painted Blue/Green swirling waves with "Hattie" painted in bold capsred at top

Amy Moran-Thomas "On planetary change and human health"

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Living Climate Futures Event Shows a Holistic Way Forward in Climate Fight

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"Culture is a meaning-making practice" - Heather Paxson in "Said and Done"

Doing Anthropology: Thoughts On Fieldwork From Three Research Sites