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Professor Heather Paxson wins a "Commitment to Caring Award"

Professor Heather Paxson has been recognized for her community building and support of graduate students and has received a "Commitment to Caring" award from the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. More

And the 2017 James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship goes to...

The Oxford Companion to Cheese, published in 2016, was chosen to receive the 2017 James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship, the highest award in the food publishing world. Professor Heather Paxson served as an Area Editor for the volume which consists of 855 encyclopedic entries on all aspects of cheese. In addition to Professor Paxson, Professors Stefan Helmreich and Graham Jones also contributed entries for the volume - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-companion-to-cheese-9780199330881?cc=us&lang=en&l. More

Alien Ocean wins the 2017 J.I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research (SAR)

Professor Stefan Helmreich's 2009 book, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, has been named the winner of the 2017 J.I. Staley Prize from the School of Advanced Research (SAR). The J.I. Staley Prize recognizes "innovative works that go beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology" and which "add new dimensions to our understanding of the human species". More

Screening of Professor Christine Walley's film, Exit Zero, launches the new Mens et Manus America initiative

The screening and discussion of Professor Christine Walley's documentary on deindustrialization in the U.S. was the launch event for MIT's new initiative - Mens et Manus America - which will focus on political, social, and economic issues. More

Professor Manduhai Buyandelger presents at the Humboldt Foundation Workshop, Religion and the City, held last November in Berlin

Professor Manduhai Buyandelger presented her paper, "From Secrecy to Flamboyance and In-Between: Shamanism, Migration, and Urban Life in Mongolia" at last November's Humboldt Foundation Workshop, Religion and the City: Inter-Religious Exchanges in Urban Environments, held in Berlin. More

Statement by Anthropology Faculty on the 27 January 2017 Executive Order Restricting Immigration to the United States of America

On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order of extraordinary breadth restricting legally recognized refugees and the nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries (including U.S. legal permanent residents) from entry into the United States. As a university community, MIT depends on the open exchange of ideas across borders and has a large number of More

Stefan Helmreich's Book wins the 2016 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize

Professor Stefan Helmreich's book, Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2016) was awarded the 2016 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. The annual prize is given to a member whose book represents the best academic book on science, literature, and the arts. More

"Election's Reverb: An Interview with Stefan Helmreich"

Professor Stefan Helmreich's interview with Andrés García Molina and Julien Cossette was featured on the website of Cultural Anthropology. The interview is a follow-up to his research article, "Gravity's Reverb: Listening to Space-Time, or Articulating the Sounds of Gravitational Wave Detection", which appeared in the journal's November 2016 issue. More

Teaching the Anthropology of Elections in Times of Trump

Lecturer Maria Vidart-Delgado discusses her course, The Anthropology of Politics, in the teachingfordisaster series on "Savage Minds", a group blog on "doing anthropology in public". More

Professor Manduhai Buyandelger's research featured in MIT News

Manduhai Buyandelger's research on post-socialist Mongolia is featured in MIT News. More

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