September 26, 2016 The Japan Times published a list of ten important books about Okinawa and Chris Nelson’s book , Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Post war Okinawa was included: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/09/17/books/okinawan-chronicles-10-books-show-many-faces-japans-island-paradise/#.V-LxiIUX78Q Martha King received a … Read more
August 26, 2016 New Book! Dale Hutchinson’s Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America, is recently out from University Press of Florida. Prize! The Society for the Anthropology of Work’s 2016 Book Prize has been awarded to … Read more
April 25, 2016 UNC- CH Faculty Council voted on Friday April 15 to elect Vin Steponaitis as the 45th Secretary of the Faculty, an office that goes back to 1823. Deans Jonathan Hartlyn and Kevin Guskiewicz have selected Margie Scarry … Read more
Updated April 11, 2016 UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-class research university that serves the people of the State of North Carolina by attracting and retaining the very best faculty, staff, and students from around the state, the country, and the … Read more
April 4. 2016 Peter Redfield has been elected to a Hallsworth Visiting Professorship in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities during 2016-2017. Vin Steponaitis, has been appointed to serve on the Smithsonian Institution’s Native American … Read more
Diana Gomez Correal was recently awarded the LASA/Oxfam America 2016 Martin Diskin Dissertation Award, an award that recognize the combination of activism and academic work. Diana is currently teaching her second semster at Javeriana University in Bogotá. She is also teaching … Read more
Anthropology doctoral students, Lauren Nareau and Hannah Jahnke working during spring break. This photo was taken of two of our graduate students on March 17, 2016 enjoying the weather while grading papers on Duke’s East campus by Whitney Keller of The Herald-Sun.
March 22, 2016 Claire Novotny has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor Position at Kenyon College. Ariel Cascio has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Neuroethics Research Unit of the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and will begin her … Read more
March 22, 2016 Dr. Vincas P. Steponaitis, past president of SAA and former chair of the Board of Directors of the Archaeological Conservancy, has been appointed to serve on the Smithsonian Institution’s Native American Repatriation Review Committee. Nominated for … Read more
March 22, 2016 Dr. Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor of Forklore and Anthropology, on Horace Williams And African Vernacular Poetics. See the article and listen to the podcast here.
