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

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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...

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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...

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

Student Anthropology Comparative Human Development Announcements

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...

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

Faculty In the News Anthropology

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

Comparative Human Development Anthropology Faculty Announcements

Two Division Faculty Honored with Named and Distinguished Service Professorships

Twenty-three University of Chicago faculty members have received named professorships or have been appointed distinguished service professors. Prof...

Student Alumni Anthropology Comparative Human Development Announcements

UChicago Postdoctoral Scholar wins prestigious seven-year grant from UK government

By Anjali Anand   In January 2017, it was announced that members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would demobilize and d...

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Michael Silverstein Memorial Scholarship Fund Established

The Michael Silverstein Memorial Fund is devoted to expanding access to anthropology at the University of Chicago and diversifying the scholarship wit...