April 23, 2018 During her initial pre-dissertation fieldwork in Lima, Achsah Dorsey met with a number of women about their primary health concerns. “Every person I spoke to wanted to know more about anemia and its effect on their children,” … Read more
April 10, 2018 What does art do and why does it matter in medicine? Performance artist Marina Tsaplina, who has lived with Type 1 diabetes since she was 2, attempted to unpack that question at a recent event at UNC-Chapel … Read more
April 6, 2018 Dottie Holland will receive the 2018 Ned Brooks Award for Public Service today in the Carolina Club, Alumni Center. Guy Shalev was awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize for Bioethics. Michelle Rivkin-Fish has been offered a Lady … Read more
April 2, 2018 Five students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences were selected as recipients of the 2018 Burch Fellowship to pursue unique, self-defined educational experiences anywhere off UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. The … Read more
March 27, 2018 First Year Seminar students in the Anthropology course “Race, Racialization, and Blackness: A Multidimensional Approach,” visited the International Civil Rights Center and Museum and the Beloved Community Center, both in Greensboro, NC (March 24, 2018). The students … Read more
March 26, 2018 Graduate Students Yioula Sigounas and Bryan Dougan presented at the joint American Ethnological Society/Society for Visual Anthropology Conference in Philadelphia, PA this past weekend (March 22-24). Yioula presented her paper “Resembling Reality: Child Sacrifice as Public Rumor and Oppositional Speech … Read more
March 26, 2018 We are celebrating the Anthropology Graduate Students who will be recognized at this years Graduate Student Recognition Celebration on April 5! Prestigious External Fellowship Awardees Dayuma Alban, Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship Maia Dedrick, NSF Doctoral … Read more
March 2, 2018 Elisabeth Kago Nebie, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, has been offered a two-year Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Heather Lapham (RLA Research Archaeologist) has been elected to the Board of the Society for American Archaeology. … Read more
February 28, 2018 Anthropology graduate student, Dawn Rivers, was recently awarded the Halperin Memorial pre-doctoral travel fellowship for her project “Self-Employment in Post-Industrial Capitalist Economies”. This fellowship will allow Dawn to travel to San Sebastian, Spain to do preliminary fieldwork this … Read more
February 26, 2018 Anthropology graduate student, Geoffrey Hughes, was recently named a Dean’s Graduate Fellow. This fellowship is made possible by an endowment funded by generous gifts from many Carolina alumni over the years. Dean’s Graduate Fellows will receive a … Read more
