Early Medieval Britain The Rebirth of Towns in the Post-Roman West
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/early-medieval-britain/B4E85E01D076035B1C55D79CD1314275
Category Archives: Faculty Research
Culture and Media Alumni and Faculty Featured in Cultural Anthropology
Check out the current issue of Cultural Anthropology for some great articles by some of our fantastic alumni and facutly from the NYU Culture & Media Program!
The Openings and Retrospectives section on Indigenous Media Futures features pieces by Kristin Dowell and Danny Fisher — and commentary by Faye Ginsburg. And Yasmin Moll has a Sound + Vision piece in the same issue! Click on the following link to read more: https://culanth.org/issues/192-33-2-may-2018
Jane Anderson Involved in Drafting Memorandum of Understanding with Penobscot Nation
On May 10, Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation and President Susan Hunter from the University of Maine signed a historical Memorandum of Understanding about the future of Penobscot cultural heritage. The MOU includes clear processes for how future research will be conducted with or on Penobscot tribal territories; for the publication of Penobscot heritage and for the inclusion and correction of incomplete or missing information regarding Penobscot collections at the University. Associate Professor Jane Anderson was involved in writing and negotiating this MOU on behalf of the Penobscot Nation.
Spanish Translation of El Mall Published
The Spanish translation of Arlene Dávila’s new monograph El Mall has been released. Please join Arlene and colleagues for a release party at McNally Jackson bookstore on April 27th. Please see here for complete information. 
Faye Ginsburg to found Center for Disability Studies
In Fall of 2017, after a decade as founding and ongoing director of the university-wide NYU Council for the Study of Disability, anthropology professor Faye Ginsburg (and co-director Mara Mills (Associate Professor, Media, Culture & Communication) received Provostial Funding to launch the new Center for Disability Studies (CDS). We are really excited to have not only a strong inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge initiative, but also to bring this important field into the center of anthropological study, as Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp argued in a groundbreaking article in 2013. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155502
The Center for Disability Studies is discussed below in this short piece. https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2017/9/22/NYUs_Incubator_for_Disability_Research_and_Activism
Linguistic Rivalries Receives Edward Sapir Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Sonia Das, whose monograph Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Oxford University Press 2016) was awared the Edward Sapir Book Prize Honorable Mention at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference. For more information about Sonia’s research, please check out her faculty profile.
Indigenous Australia Series: Indigenous Australia in Precarious Times
DACA-mented, Undocumented, and Temporary Protected Status Students and Allies
Without congressional action, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will expire on March 5, 2018. We do not know what the results of congressional debate will be for DACA or how these will influence other immigration issues and statuses. The Anthropology Department’s goal is to support you during this uncertain time. NYU will continue to support undocumented students, staff and faculty. If you are or someone close to you is undocumented or have DACA or temporary protected status, please know that there are many things you can do before March. The following link provides practical steps you can take as well as connections to NYU immigrant defense initiative which can help with legal advice and referrals (http://as.nyu.edu/anthropology/undergraduate/resources/daca-students.html). NYU provides additional information and resources for students here. We want to remind you during these disconcerting times that you are a valued member of our community.
Jane Anderson Publishes New Co-Edited Volume
Associate Professor Jane Anderson publishes the Routledge Companion in Cultural Property edited with Haidy Geismar. And includes several pieces by NYU faculty and students including Fred Myers, Lee Douglas and Sandra Rozental. Congratulations Jane!
Alex DeCasien’s Research Garners Media Attention
Congratulations to Ph.D candidate Alex DeCasien! Her 2nd year qualification paper was recently published, with Professors James Higham and Scott Williams as co-authors. The paper’s research found that “those [non human primates] who munched on fruit instead of leaves had 25 percent more brain tissue, even when controlling for body size and species relatedness” (NPR).
The research generated quite a bit of media attention in publications including Science, the BBC, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Guardian, and The Smithsonian.