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Dr Christos Lynteris: Ethnographic Plague

Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier Dr Christos Lynteris Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the...

Dr Nayanika Mathur: Drowning in a paper sea

Drowning in a paper sea: India’s welfare efforts failed by its peculiar bureaucracy India’s sophisticated laws and progressive policies fail with startling regularity. A new study locates a possible reason as to why in the convoluted bureaucratic system of the Indian state and its obsession with paper. One of the world’s...

Dr Felix Stein wins the LSE Monographs Bloomsbury First Book Competition

We are pleased to announce the 2016 LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology/Bloomsbury First Book Competition was won by Dr Felix Stein of the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Felix is one of three winners of this competition, which supports early career anthropologists who are raising innovative...

Sue Benson Prize for Best Part IIB Dissertation 2016

Winner: Theodore Park (King’s College) Every year, the division awards a prize of £200 to the most outstanding IIB dissertation. The prize is named in memory of Dr Sue Benson (1955-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and was an inspiration both personally and...

Professor James Laidlaw appointed as William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology

The Division of Social Anthropology is delighted to announce the election of the eighth William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, to succeed Professor Henrietta Moore, who was preceded in turn by Professors Marilyn Strathern, Ernest Gellner, Jack Goody, Meyer Fortes, J. H. Hutton, and T. C. Hodson. James Laidlaw has...

Wyse Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation Proposal 2016

Winner: Martin Freimüller (Trinity College) Ten entries were received, all of them prepared to high standards. The quality and diversity of proposed dissertation projects are, as in previous years, very impressive. Thematically, they address various aspects of the arts, media, politics, religion and activism. Regionally...

Jo Cox MP (1974-2016)

It is with the deepest regret that we record the untimely death of Jo Cox (née Leadbeater), who came up to Cambridge in 1992 taking her Part I in Archaeology and Anthropology then Social and Political Science. She graduated in 1995 and was elected to Parliament as Labour Member for Batley and Spen at the 2015 General...

Dr Nahum-Claudel awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

We are pleased to announce that Chloe Nahum-Claudel has just been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship which she will hold at the London School of Economics from March 2017. Her research project is entitled ‘Intimate Witchcraft: forging human life between unseen and phenomenal worlds’. Here is what she says...

Dr Sehlikoglu appointed Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College

We're delighted to announce that from October 2016 Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu will be the Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College. Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu is a social anthropologist working on gender and subjectivity specialised on Turkey and the Middle East. She analyses...

Judges' Report on 2016 Graduate Photography Competition

Caroline Humphrey and Rupert Stasch May 15, 2016 The ten entries in this year’s “Images Fresh from the Field” competition were all richly deserving of awards, and it was very difficult to choose among them. The judges sought to evaluate the submissions according to their technical, aesthetic, and epistemological features...

Dr Christos Lynteris: Ethnographic Plague

Dr Nayanika Mathur: Drowning in a paper sea

Dr Felix Stein wins the LSE Monographs Bloomsbury First Book Competition

Sue Benson Prize for Best Part IIB Dissertation 2016

Professor James Laidlaw appointed as William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology

Wyse Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation Proposal 2016

Jo Cox MP (1974-2016)

Dr Nahum-Claudel awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Dr Sehlikoglu appointed Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College

Judges' Report on 2016 Graduate Photography Competition

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