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MPhilSA, MPhilSAR and PhD Applications Deadline 30 April 2025

The deadline for applications to our postgraduate courses is Wednesday 30 April 2025. To see the courses we offer, visit our Prospective Postgraduates webpage .

AIM: PhD Application Support Programme

AIM: PhD is an application support programme, designed to support PhD applicants with their application for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge. Over the course of six months, participants receive support to prepare their PhD application through one-to-one mentoring and group online sessions.

Professor Harri Englund awarded the Curl Essay Prize

The Department are delighted to announce that Professor Harri Englund has been awarded the Curl Essay Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the essay Why Is There No Slavery in the Anthropology of Freedom?

New Publication - Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

Following a six-year ERC-funded research project on the comparative anthropology of free speech, Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright have published a large open-access edited volume entitled Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power.

Dr Naomi Richman, Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology, Trinity College

Anthropology’s real-world value

How one Cambridge researcher is reaching beyond academia to enhance societal understanding of witchcraft and possession.

Prestigious book prize for Cambridge Anthropologist

Cambridge social anthropologist Dr Christina J. Woolner has won the 2024 International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) Book Prize. Each year, the prize recognises an exceptional book of outstanding scholarship.

The Anthropology of Amazonia: Interview with Dr Natalia Buitron

Dr Natalia Buitron has had a deep connection to the Amazon since childhood. Her PhD led her back to study the region and its indigenous people more closely. And the Amazon has shaped her research and teaching ever since, resulting in long-term fieldwork with the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia.

Latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published!

The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has published! This special issue is entitled "Policing Fakes." Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal. This issue is a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro subscribe-to-open Collection! Editors: Liana Chua, University of...

Standing on the precipice

Two ambitious researchers have pooled their collective expertise to develop a very local approach to the global climate emergency.

'Tokionoma Elementary School' by Sahoko Aki

Art, memory and repair: an exhibition at Cambridge's historic Leper Chapel

The Grade I listed Leper Chapel is possibly Cambridge's oldest building. Originally serving as a 12th-century sanctuary for those affected by leprosy, its dual nature as a place of both exclusion and worship resonated deeply with Dr Iza Kavedžija ’s recent exhibition on the themes of loss and repair. In place of loss...

MPhilSA, MPhilSAR and PhD Applications Deadline 30 April 2025

AIM: PhD Application Support Programme

Professor Harri Englund awarded the Curl Essay Prize

New Publication - Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

Anthropology’s real-world value

Prestigious book prize for Cambridge Anthropologist

The Anthropology of Amazonia: Interview with Dr Natalia Buitron

Latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published!

Standing on the precipice

Art, memory and repair: an exhibition at Cambridge's historic Leper Chapel

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