Congratulations to Janita Van Dyk, Nadine Ryan, and Melanie Zhang, winners of the Nicol, Vince and Wensley Prize in Anthropology, based on outstanding academic performance. And congratulations to Melanie Zhang (again!), winner of the Institute for Social Research Scholarship.
Save this date! The Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture Series presents Dr. Mike McGovern, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Thursday November 5, 2015, 3-5 pm, 519 Kaneff. Dr. McGovern’s talk is titled “Masculinity in War and Peace: Violent Mastery and the Search for Distinction in the Republic of Guinea”. Mike McGovern Poster (PDF)
Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture with Dr. James Ferguson, October 8 2015
Mark your calendar! The Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture Series presents Dr. James Ferguson, Stanford University. Dr. Ferguson’s talk is titled, “Give a Man a Fish: The New Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond)” . Thursday, October 8, 4:00-6:00pm, Curtis Lecture Hall C. All are welcome!
This year the Department of Anthropology celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Department of Anthropology at York University initially began as a section of the Department of Sociology in 1963, but became an independent department in 1975, with Dr. David Lumsden as the first Chair. The Department of Anthropology has, over its 40 year lifespan, developed […]
Anthropology Professor Zulfikar Hirji’s research on Islam and Muslim societies has secured him this year’s York Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Canada’s oldest research institute in the humanities.
York Anthropology alumni Lynda Mannik and Karen Garry have edited a collection “Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation (Wildfred Laurier Press, 2015).
Congratulations to Prof. Tony Sorge, who has just published Legacies of Violence: History, Society and the State in Sardinia with University of Toronto Press.
Congratulations to Prof. Natasha Myers, who has just published Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter with Duke University Press.
The second volume of Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology has just been published ! The journal’s volumes are open access and available to view and download online at our website: contingenthorizons.com.