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Students, colleagues remember Raymond Fogelson for his research and warmth

The professor emeritus passed away in January 2020, but will be remembered at a fall memorial at UChicago. One of the foremost ethnohistorians of h...

SSD Welcomes 9 New Faculty

Yuting Dong Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2023 As a historian of modern Japan and East ...

AZ Central - Navajo residents say they won't let the government forget about poisoned uranium mines; Asst. Prof. Teresa Montoya comments on uranium contamination in the Puerco River

BYU Radio - Top of Mind with Julie Rose: Cochlear Implants, Prof. Michele Friedner explains cochlear implant technology in developing countries

In time capsule, UChicago students send COVID-19 artifacts 100 years into the future

This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here.   Anthropology class explores ‘how materials communic...

Grant winner focuses on Inuit-military relations during the Cold War

Anthropology PhD student Emma Gilheany partners with an arctic indigenous community to help tell the region’s recent history By Sarah Steimer Fe...

New Yorker - Learning to ski in a country of beginners; Prof. John MacAloon discusses the Olympics, diplomacy, and Chinese domestic policy

Raffaella Taylor-Seymour named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow

  Raffaella Taylor-Seymour, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development and the Department of Anthropology, has been n...

Jacobin- Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021); Obituary looks at the late anthropologist's political and intellectual legacy

New York Times- Marshall D. Sahlins, groundbreaking anthropologist, dies at 90, Obituary remembers Prof. Emeritus Marshall D. Sahlins' activism and his impact on anthropology as a discipline