News Archives 2012

MIT Anthropology News Archives 2012

Cheese Cultures

Professor Heather Paxson's new book, The Life of Cheese, is reviewed in Scientific American. More

Bridging the Generation Gap, One Meal at a Time

Professor Heather Paxson was interviewed by journalist Amy Chozick for a New York Times article about the importance of food and meals in family relationships. More

Looking inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheese-makers

Professor Heather Paxson's new book The Life of Cheese, delves into the ethos, methods, of politics of artisanal cheese-making. At a time when the ethics of food is an important issue for many Americans, the work offers a unique glimpse of people who have taken food-making into their own hands. More

Stefan Helmreich wins Rachel Carson Prize for Alien Ocean

Professor Stefan Helmreich's book Alien Ocean, Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, has won the 2012 Rachel Carson Book Prize, given by the Society for the Social Study of Science to recognize a book-length work of special social or political relevance in the area of science and technology studies. More

Gender, Technology & Development Workshop - October 26, 2012

MIT Anthropology, along with Women's and Gender Studies, D-Lab, and STS, is sponsoring a day-long workshop at MIT on Gender, Technology & Development on October 26, 2012 in building N51, 3rd floor, from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. The workshop aims to engage cross-disciplinary dialogue among anthropologists, economists, engineers, and students interested in issues relating to gender, international development, and technology design and transfer. Anthropology faculty Heather Paxson and Chris Walley will serve as discussants. More

Susan Silbey honored for lab safety research

Professor Susan S. Silbey, head of MIT's Anthropology Program, has received the 2012 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association (ASA) for her "outstanding contribution to the discipline." More

Exit 0 Project website launches

Associate Professor Christine Walley's and Chris Boebel's Exit 0 Project seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization, and to look towards a future of economic opportunity and environmental justice for Southeast Chicago residents. More

Interview with Christine Walley and Chris Boebel

Associate Professor Christine Walley and Chris Boebel are documentary filmmakers and advisors to the Open Documentary Lab @ MIT. They are currently collaborating on Exit Zero, a documentary about one family's experience of deindustrialization in southeast Chicago. More

Walley receives LEF Foundation Award

Associate Professor Christine Walley and Chris Boebel receive an award from the LEF Foundation for their documentary project, Exit 0. More

Jones wins 2012 Levitan Teaching Prize

Assistant Professor Graham Jones was among the recipients of the 2012 James A. and Ruth Levitan Awards for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. More

Silbey receives award for research on forging safety in science labs

Susan S. Silbey, head of MIT Anthropology, and Ruthanne Huising PhD '08 have been awarded the 2011 best publication prize from Regulation & Governance for their article, "Governing the Gap: Forging Safe Science Through Relational Regulation." More

Materials from Sensing the Unseen seminar to be published

Sensate, a peer-reviewed, open access online academic journal, will be publishing materials from the Sensing the Unseen seminar, a year-long series of talks organized by Professors Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson in 2010-2011. To find out more about the Sensing the Unseen seminar and hear podcasts of the presentations, please click here. More

Helmreich and Paxson teach anthropology during Semester at Sea

Professors Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson are spending the Spring 2012 semester traveling and teaching with Semester at Sea, a global education program sponsored by the University of Virginia that offers undergraduates the opportunity to explore different regions and cultures all over the world. More

James receives $25,000 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has announced that Erica Caple James, associate professor of anthropology, has received the James A. ('45) and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities. The $25,000 prize is awarded annually as a research fund to support innovative and creative scholarship in the humanities. More

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