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Class of 2019 Anthropology major, Ankita Reddy, works on globally deployed diagnostic devices

Ankita Reddy, a graduating double major in Anthropology and Biology, will begin her post-graduation life as a researcher at the start-up E25Bio continuing the work on a globally deployed diagnostic device for mosquito-borne illnesses that she worked on as an undergraduate. More

HASTS (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society) Graduate Student Steven Gonzalez Researches the Cloud

HASTS graduate student Steven Gonzales uses his anthropological training to research cloud computing and communities More

Professor Susan Silbey is awarded the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award

Professor Susan Silbey is awarded MIT's highest faculty honor More

Heather Paxson spearheads historic meeting on moving Anthropology journals to an Open Access model

Professor Heather Paxson gathers stakeholders across the field of anthropology for a historic meeting to pilot a project for moving scholarly journals to Open Access. More

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

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