Associate Professor Amy Moran-Thomas receives 2021 Victor Turner Prize from Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Awarded for her book "Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic"

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.

Oximeters Used to Be Designed for Equity. What Happened?

The pandemic drew attention to the racial bias built into pulse oxes. But calls to create a fairer device are missing one thing: It once existed.

Keeping humanity central to solving climate change

MIT scholars are helping to solve the economic, cultural, and political dimensions of the world’s energy and climate challenges.

The Meaning of Masks: Masks can reveal new possibilities

MIT Anthropology Speaks Out — and Teaches — against Racism

Associate Professor Amah Edoh receives Baker Award for undergraduate teaching