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Faculty Anthropology Announcements
McKim Marriott, world-renowned scholar of India and caste, 1924-2024
Prof. Emeritus McKim Marriott, a leading University of Chicago anthropologist whose ethnographic research in India revolutionized the study of the cas...
July 25, 2024![Russ Tuttle](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-05/tuttle-feature_0.jpg?itok=cY4EFCKf)
Faculty Anthropology Announcements
A ‘stickler for the truth,’ Russell Tuttle’s career is measured in groundbreaking research and celebrated mentorship
The professor of anthropology is retiring after six decades at UChicago. By Sarah Steimer A professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology,...
May 16, 2024![Bian and Jobson](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-02/bian-jobson.jpg?itok=PZ-z2cAr)
Faculty Anthropology Psychology Announcements
2024 Dean’s Early Career Research Awards
By Aubrey Christofersen The Annual Dean’s Early Career Research Awards have been announced. Now in their second year, the awards are supported thro...
April 21, 2024![2023 artwork from the neubauer collegium titled archive for 57 people by Dan Peterman](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2024-02/ea4c22b2-ec9c-fa62-c5ea-da66e7f7ad89.jpg?itok=UwhQn9t5)
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2024-25 Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Projects Announced
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected eight new faculty-led research projects to launch July 1, 2024. “These new faculty rese...
February 14, 2024![Trinidad General Strike](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-10/jobsoncopycropped.jpg?itok=MCcL1_5i)
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Butler vs the Two Kings: On the Trinidad General Strike of 1937
Assistant Professor Ryan Jobson was invited on the Working Class History podcast in a two-episode series on the Trinidad General Strike of 1937. Th...
October 10, 2023![illustration depicting a cermony](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-08/new_fire_ceremony_1_0.png?itok=h_XsuBKj)
Announcements Faculty Anthropology
An archaeologist talks trash
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. Author, UChicago Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman reframes hist...
August 22, 2023![Nancy Munn](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2023-04/munn.jpg?itok=zlLVVEWp)
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Remembering Nancy Munn, Emerita Professor of Anthropology
By Sarah Steimer Nancy Munn — remembered as “a scholar’s scholar” — was an Emerita Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a ren...
July 13, 2023