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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...
February 22, 2024Announcements Faculty Anthropology Comparative Human Development History Sociology
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, 2024In the News Anthropology RDI Faculty
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, 2023Announcements 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, 2023Announcements Faculty Anthropology
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, 2023Science - Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them?
Around 500 C.E., a new government arose in the community now called Río Viejo, near the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was once the largest ...
September 10, 2023