Ethics in Research: What is the IRB?
Anthropology Graduate Student.
Eduardo Brondizio: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology
Thierry Veyrie Awarded New Grant from the Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Endowment Fund
Anthropology Graduate Student.
Hoosier hunger: IU researcher Mecca Burris examines food insecurity close to home
Anthropology Graduate Student
Lana Ruck is the 2020 recipient of the Hanna Kolodziejski Award
Anthropology Graduate Student.
Eduardo Brondizio at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in February 2020
Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology
Congratulations to Kate Graber!
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Kate Graber has been selected as a 2019-20 recipient of the IUB Outstanding Junior Faculty Award!
Anthropology Graduate Student Aaron Ellis on diversity in the craft beer industry
Anthropology Graduate Student.
Hilary Kahn to lead Office of International Affairs at IUPUI
Hilary Kahn currently serves as assistant dean for international education and global initiatives and as the director of the Center for the Study of Global Change in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at IU Bloomington.
IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Global Assessment featuring Eduardo Brondizio
Eduardo Brondizio is currently the Co-Chair (with Sandra Diaz and Josef Settele) of the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Michael Wasserman gets a new multi-year NSF IRES grant!
Congratulations to Mike on the exciting, recent news that he will be awarded a second round of multi-year funding for his ongoing project as part of the NSF International Research Experience for Students program!
Jennifer Robinson's "Grade Surprise" project cited in Chronicle of Higher Education!
In today’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, you can read about a number of IU Scholarship of Teaching and Learning “teaching analytics” projects, including a nice reference to the research project on “Grade Surprise” led by our own Jennifer Robinson! Congratulations to Jen!
Sara Friedman just learned that she will receive a Fulbright award for Spring 2020
Sara Friedman just learned that she will receive a Fulbright award for Spring 2020 to support her research project "LGBT Family Rights and Marriage Equality in Taiwan." The publice announcement from Fulbright will follow, soon.
Orbituary of Constance (Connie) Adams
Former Assistant to the Chair of Anthropology.
Sarah Osterhoudt has a co-authored article
Sarah Osterhoudt has a co-authored article just out on a new approach to visualize/analyze the Madagascar Vanilla boom (looking at small holders, sustainability, and commodity chains) published in Nature / Palgrave.
Congratulations to Victoria Kvitek!
One of our Anthropology majors, Victoria Kvitek, has just been selected as one of only 6 inaugural Undergraduate Research Fellow for the AAA. She is being mentored by Ilana Gershon. You can read about her project, and the fellowship program, below.
The science stories likely to make headlines in 2019
Eduardo Brondizio continues his co-leadership of the UN’s global assessment project. They anticipate publication of their findings later this spring, and is anticipated in Science Magazine as a “Science Story likely to make headlines in 2019”
"From Weeping Hills to Hidden Caves: Exploring Cahokia's Vibrant Landscapes"
Susan Alt has received research funding from IU’s Office for the Vice President for Research to begin a new field project this summer. The landscape archaeology project “From Weeping Hills to Hidden Caves: Exploring Cahokia’s Vibrant Landscapes” will conduct initial surveys of the region surrounding the world-famous archaeological site of Cahokia, near modern St Louis, the only pre-Columbian city in North America, to evaluate alternative hypotheses to explain the emergence of this particular location as a major urban center.
Indiana University names 10 faculty members distinguished professors
Ten Indiana University faculty members have been appointed as distinguished professor, the university's highest academic rank for scholars and researchers and Eduardo S. Brondizio is one of the appointees.
An Evening of Celebration - Anya Peterson Royce receiving the 2018 Tracy M Sonneborn award
On November 30, 2018, Anya Peterson Royce will be giving a lecture "The Long Way Around" in honor of her receiving 2018 Tracy M Sonneborn award in Presidents Hall inside Franklin Hall.Congratulations to Anya Peterson Royce!
Medical Anthro in the news
Professor Sarah Phillips, Director of the Russian and Eastern European Institute, will be delivering a featured talk on November 11, 2018 in St Petersburn, Russia: "How effective, bottom-up approaches can produce effective health interventions - Medical Anthropology and the Case of HIV prevention in the Ukraine." This paper is based on the results of her recent, multi-year, collaborative research project, funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse NIDA.
Quote in New York Times Madagascar story
IU Anthropology Professor Sarah Osterhoudt is quoted in the New York Times with comments on the socio-cultural context of ritualized combat in Madagascar.
Alex Badillo, an archaeologist and PhD candidate in Anthropology, will be giving this year’s Barbara D. Jackson Lecture in Anthropology, IUPUI, “Digitizing the Past”
Alex Elvis Badillo, PhD candidate, Indiana University Bloomington Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University
Learning Anthropology at IU Science Fest
Anthropology students, faculty and friends were out in force, for the 5th annual campus Science Fest.
Mathers exhibit of Ghanaian Coffins, curated by our very own PhD student Kristin Otto, has a lovely feature article in the Herald-Times
Continuing through December 16 at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures is an exhibit of figurative Ghanaian coffins curated by Kristin Otto. She studied the trend up close at Paa Joe Coffin Works, a workshop in Ghana.
Class of 2020 - Student Spotlight
Doña Eliassaint, an Anthropology student is one of Office of the Provost's twelve IU Class of 2020 student stars, and she will be this week's student spotlight on IU is Home social media accounts.
Ling-yu Hung Memorial
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our colleague, Ling-yu Hung, on April 26, 2018 in Taiwan after a long battle with cancer. She was greatly admired as a colleague and friend, enhancing the quality of the department and maintaining an active research agenda despite her illness.
National Treasures Grant to GBL
The Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology has received a new federal grant to help curate the collections from the important Angel Mounds site.
Culture Keepers - A lovely article on Anya Peterson Royce and her wonderful work in Juchitan
"They took my breath away," Royce says. "I was so taken by their confidence and their assurance and their spectacular dress. I thought: I need to know more about them."
Exhibit of Photographs by Anya Peterson Royce
This is an announcement of the exhibit of some of Anya's Juchitan photos that is up now at the Mathers Museum until mid-December.
Anthropology graduate student featured in news
Scott Cawthon, a graduate student in IU Anthropology, has been the subject of four newspaper articles and has been featured on local Belgian television.
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: H. Russell Bernard
Russell Bernard, director of the Institute for Social Science at Arizona State University and professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida, will present the lecture “Social Science Research in the 21st Century: Where are we headed?”
Professor Jeffrey Hoelle of UC Santa Barbara presents talk
Jeffrey Hoelle, professor at University of California Santa Barbara, will present a talk “The Anthropology of Rainforest Destruction.”
Laura Scheiber’s archaeology field school featured in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune featured Associate Professor Laura Scheiber and her archaeology field school at the Heart Mountain Ranch Preserve near Ralston, Wyoming. The article also features several IU students.
Susan Lepselter receives this year’s Bateson Prize
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) awarded the ninth annual Gregory Bateson Prize to Susan Lepselter, associate professor in Anthropology, for her book The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (University of Michigan Press).
Eduardo S. Brondizio writes essay on “Interdisciplinarity” for the Social Science Research Council (CCRC)
Building on past contributions to the “Interdisciplinarity Now” series, Eduardo Brondizio emphasizes that interdisciplinary collaboration is fundamentally a reflexive intellectual and social process.
World-famous chef and food activist Alice Waters to visit IU Bloomington
Groundbreaking 'restauratrice' and organic food movement pioneer to celebrate the launch of IU's Food Project
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