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Associate Professor Graham Jones has been named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Associate Professor Graham Jones has been recognized for his excellence in undergraduate teaching by being named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching. More

Professor Susan Silbey Opens the Celebration of MIT's New Schwarzman College of Computing

Professor Susan Silbey in her role as Chair of the Faculty at MIT gave the opening remarks at the recent celebration for the opening of the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. More

Perspectives on the Societal Impact of Computing and AI

At the invitation of SHASS Dean Melissa Nobles, Professors Susan Silbey, Heather Paxson, and Stefan Helmreich were asked to offer their perspectives on the "societal and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies". More

Professor Christine Walley on "Work, Stories, and American Identity"

As part of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science's (SHASS) initiative on 21st Century Citizenship, several SHASS faculty have been asked to write about their research based perspectives for a series - Election Insights 2018. Professor Christine Walley writes on "Work, Stories, and American Identity". More

Anthropology awarded grant from the MIT-SenseTime Alliance

The MIT-SenseTime Alliance (https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-alliance-funds-projects-human-machine-intelligence-0824) awarded a grant to Anthropology for a project headed up by Professor Heather Paxson. The project hopes to prototype a search tool, "Relata", which will use machine-readable metadata looking for relations among literatures, authors, and publications in anthropology. The tool will be launched on the Society for Cultural Anthropology's website. More

Associate Professor Graham Jones' book given an Honorable Mention

Associate Professor Graham Jones' latest book, Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy, was given an Honorable Mention by the 2016-17 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cutural Studies committee. More

Professor Stefan Helmreich is selected to be a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute

Professor Stefan Helmreich has been selected as 2018-2019 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University. He will be working on his current manuscript which is an "ethnographic account of how scientists measure, model, and monitor ocean waves in an era of climate change". More

Professor Stefan Helmreich is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor Stefan Helmreich joins a diverse group of scholars, scientists, and artists who have been acknowledged for their prior achievements and exceptional promise. More

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