The Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Ethnography of Digital Futures at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1, 2022. Position Information
The Department of Anthropology is raising funds to establish two major awards in support of Indigenous and Black students: the ‘Founders” awards. The initiative for the Founders awards emerged from within the Department and named in honour of senior retired scholars—our Founders. In addition, we are also re-initiating a student achievement prize named in honour […]
As part of our Full-time Faculty member, Dr. David Murray's recent completion of his new book-length publication, the Centre for Feminist Research at York University is organizing a book launch event on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 between 1 pm and 2:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time). The event will take place virtually. Once you have completed […]
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a time for us to raise awareness of the trauma and genocide of Indigenous First Nations, Métis, and Inuit through residential schools and other settler colonial structures implemented to eradicate Indigenous nations and children. Since 1831, over 140 government sponsored church-run residential schools have operated throughout Canada, […]
We are pleased to announce that the Department of Anthropology will be hosting an online workshop on Materiality, Evidence and Archive on October 1st & 2nd, 2021. The workshop seeks to challenge and unsettle the established archival and evidentiary forms and practices concerning materiality, and to share new ways of thinking ethnographically about the relationship between permanence, […]
Our Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Albert Schrauwers has completed his new book-length publication. In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of “merchant kings” who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Netherlands into a […]
Our former Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology and current Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Shubhra Gururani has recently co-edited a special issue for the Urbanisation journal anchored by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). You can read the journal and her article on open access until September 30th, 2021. This […]
Our Contract Faculty member, Dr. Arne Steinforth has completed his new book-length publication which will be arriving at all bookstores in Fall 2021. When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In their empirical experience, fact – knowledge […]
The Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology has recently co-edited a special issue for the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). You can read the journal and her article online.
