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Congratulations Kari Guilbault for receiving the 2026 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award for your work titled, “Body of Beliefs: Conversion and Darkness in Christian (Medieval) Nubia.”
Congratulations Ashley Fitzpatrick for receiving the 2026 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Master’s Non-Thesis Project Award for “Kin After Commodification: Surveillance, Personhood, and Kinship Temporalities in Egg Donation.”
Congratulations Heidi Cooke for receiving the 2026 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for “Natural Capital in Context: The Social Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation.”
Huge congratulations to Liv for this amazing accomplishment!
Congratulations #Purdue @PurdueANTH Ph.D. Student, Olivia Palepoi, on being offered a Fulbright Research award to New Zealand! Congratulations, Liv!
#PurdueNISO #Fulbright #LiberalArts #Anthropology @lifeatpurdue @PurdueLibArts @FulbrightPrgrm @FulbrightNZ @purdueniso
What is Purdue Anthropology up to this summer?☀️
Dr. Sarah Renkert and students in her Study Abroad course are traveling across Peru using ethnography to explore the complexities of tourism and its role in shaping communities, economies, and cultural heritage.
Kali Rubaii has a co-authored article, "Torture is kinship work: infrastructures of Cold War affect," out today in History and Anthropology.
Through the stories of two women, one in Ecuador and one in Iraq...
the article examines how torture works through kinship to exploit and produce the affective infrastructures of familiar ties. The authors argue that what holds people hostage to their location, inaction, and their own bodily immobility is not simply fear: it is love
Dr. Kory Cooper and graduate student Cassie Apuzzo will be hosting a children's program on archaeology on Thursday, June 18th, at the Goodland-Grant Township Public Library in Goodland, Indiana!
Come by to learn more about archaeology and participate in hands-on activities!
Graduate student Cassie Apuzzo will be leading a children's program on Indiana archaeology this Tuesday, June 16th, at the Remington Carpenter Township Public Library in Remington, Indiana.
Stop by to learn about what an archaeologist is and about Indiana history!
“Hiratsuka” is a 30-minute ethnographic film by anthropologist Dada Docot @dadadocot documenting Filipino migrant life in Hiratsuka, Japan. The film centers on the activities surrounding the staging of the Filipino community’s annual bingo in 2009, youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bE010L…
interspersed with conversations with members of the community and Gerald Daza Ballester, a former dancer-choreographer who lived undocumented in Japan for two decades. Hiratsuka has become their new hometown, where they have come to feel comfortable and have started families,
Congratulations to Anthropology undergraduate student Melody Meng, whose podium presentation at the 2026 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference was awarded "Presentation with Distinction!" #purdueuniversity @PurdueLibArts
Congratulations to all of our students who presented at the 2026 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference!
Check out photos of research projects presented at the conference by students Lauren Riina, Makayla Bell, Gitali Teckchandani, and Salma Benmoussa.
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Congratulations to Anawar Mohamed, who has been awarded the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation! Anawar's project, Climate Change, Human Adaptation, and Resilience in Ancient Nubia: Analysis of Environmental Variability and Social Transformation
