“An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a southwestern French rockshelter—a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia.” Professor Randall White, of the NYU Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Human Origins, contributed to the findings. You can read more about the discoveries, here.
The Department of Anthropology at NYU, particularly Jerome Whitington, assisted in efforts to rescue climate change data from being purged by the Trump Administration on the EPA’s website. You can read more about their efforts in rescuing this data, here.
Professor Faye Ginsburg and Professor Rayna Rapp contributed to the online HotSpots section of the journal Cultural Anthropology, commenting on the interplay of disability and politics in the 2016 US Presidential Election. The piece can be read in full here and provides an illuminating examination of the ways disability has been talked about and represented during this unprecedented election season.
Congratulations to Faye and Rayna!
The Huffington Post recently published a blog post by George, a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct Professor at The College of New Jersey, highlighting the importance of anthropology undergraduate programs at American universities. The article makes a compelling and passionate case for the importance of studying anthropology, and comes at a time when, unfortunately, many anthropology programs around the country and being cut or downsized.
You can read his article here.
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Congrats to C&M alumna Amahl Bishara! Her new film Take My Pictures for Me (directed with Mohammed al-Azza) is premiering at the Boston Palestine Film Festival in October!
You can read more about Take My Pictures for Me here.
Undergraduates! Download more information about the field-school here.
Professor Emily martin recently contributed to a new piece entitled “This New Sex Science Changes Everything.” Check out the article here, and watch Emily speak in the video below!
Undergraduates! The AMNH is currently accepting applications for Summer 2016 internships. Please see the attached informational flyer for complete information.
Pegi Vail, associate director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, was recently interviewed about her documentary Gringo Trails, a film which explores backpacking subculture and its impact on the environmental and geopolitical relationships. You can read her full interview, here.
Co-directed by the George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study
of Hominid Paleobiology and the National Museums of Kenya, the Koobi Fora
Field is a four-credit collaborative paleoanthropological research and trainning
program in Northern Kenya. e program includes daily hands-on work, a series
of lectures, specialized laboratory exercises, and one-on-training with senior
researchers and instructors. rough this combination of learning opportunities in
a remote and remarkable “classroom” students receive an intense and unforgettable
research experience.
Applications — consisting of a transcript, letter of recommendation, and statement, as well as the supplementary application — are due by December 18th 2015.
For complete information, please download the attached informational flyer.
If you have any questions, please contact David Braun at david_braun@gwu.edu.