Anthropology Skills Workshop Join Niki Thorne, a York U Ph.D. Candidate, writer, researcher, and educational coordinator of award-winning Wild Archaeology on APTN for a 2-day workshop on writing for TV and film! This two-part workshop explores writing for television and film in the context of applied anthropology. With guidance, students will develop an original television pitch proposal […]
Congratulations to Alyssa A. James, the 2023 recipient of the Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award! This award recognizes the work of individual anthropologists or projects with a demonstrable commitment to social justice and community engagement by applying anthropology to effectively address a pressing issue facing people and the planet. Alyssa A. James is a […]
Congratulations to Emerita Professor Frances Henry on her appointment to the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian award! This appointment is in recognition of her “groundbreaking contributions to the study of racism in contemporary society” (Governor General’s New Year Honours, December 29, 2021). Professor Henry’s scholarship and applied work on racism has a long history […]
Master’s Program Ioana Ionita (MA 2023) MRP title: “Motherhood Incarcerated: An intersectional inquiry into the reproductive rights and concerns of incarcerated women in Canada.” Massima Armani (MA 2023) MRP title: “Socio-Technical Embodiments of Type 1 Diabetes: Accessing and Experiencing Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices in Ontario.“ Maxine Brown (MA 2023) MRP title: “Discourses of Sexual Violence […]
The Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) presents this year’s Anthropology Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 23 at 4:30 p.m. with researcher, writer, filmmaker, and professor at Princeton University Dr. Laurence Ralph. Serving as the keynote speaker for the event, Dr. Ralph will discuss juvenile murder in which […]
It is with great sadness we share the grave loss of a valued and well renowned faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on Friday, November 18, 2022: Dr. Jane (J.) Teresa Holmes. We are providing our well wishes and condolences to her family and loved ones during this difficult time. In keeping with her […]
York’s University’s Department of Anthropology (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) welcomes Associate Professor and anthropologist Richard Vokes from the University of Western Australia to talk about new developmental cultures in Uganda and east Africa on Thursday, November 10 at 2:30 p.m. The seminar will take place in Kaneff Tower, Room 626 on the […]
We are pleased to announce that our Senior Scholar and Professor Emerita Dr. Winona Giles has received the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Dr. Giles, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Resident Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies accepted the award alongside […]
We are pleased to announce that our full-time faculty member, Dr. Zulfikar Hirji has been featured in an opera-film BOUND presented by Against the Grain Theatre (AtG). BOUND utilizes the power of storytelling and music to demonstrate the various barriers experienced by marginalized Canadians in their daily lives and asks the question of “How welcoming […]
The Chair for the Department of Anthropology, Dr. Othon Alexandrakis has completed his new book-length publication. Radical Resilience relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies, and human disasters of successive national crises in Greece since 2010. Drawing on eight years of fieldwork, Dr. Othon Alexandrakis examines the effects of […]