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The newly established Caroline Humphrey Chair in the Anthropology of Inner Asia has been awarded to Professor David Sneath

The newly established Caroline Humphrey Chair in the Anthropology of Inner Asia has been awarded to Professor David Sneath. This recently endowed chair has been funded by a major donation by the Sigrid Rausing Trust, which has also funded the MIASU Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowship and Doctoral Studentship in the Social...

Applications invited for Evans Fellowships

Evans Fellowships 2021 The Advisory Committee for the Evans Fund give notice that they intend to proceed to an election of an Evans Fellow or Fellows early in the Easter Term . A graduate of any university is eligible to apply, provided that they intend to engage in research in anthropology or archaeology in relation to...

National Student Survey

The National Student Survey 2021 is now open. It is your chance to give your feedback. If you are in your final year, you may be eligible for the NSS. Visit www.thestudentsurvey.com to find out. We welcome your input.

Graduate Photographic Competition 2021 Launched

Showcase your Fieldwork Photographs Postgraduates in Social Anthropology are invited to enter this year’s Graduate Photographic Competition to have their work displayed in the Department and have the chance to win a Heffers book voucher (First Prize £75, Second Prize £50 and Third Prize £25). 250x200-powell_davies_photo_2...

Church and the Ancestors: Sacred pir mats from Asmat, Papua, Indonesia (3 December 2020 – March 2021)

A new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology tells the story of how Asmat people of Papua, Indonesia, have transformed Catholicism in accordance with their ancestral ritual life. An on-line tour is available on the University of Cambridge Museums' YouTube channel, EBXiafDSFA&feature=youtu.be For...

PhD student Fred Wojnarowski has been awarded the IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples Best Student Essay Prize 2020

The Department are delighted to announce that current PhD student Fred Wojnarowski has been awarded the IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples Best Student Essay Prize 2020 for his article 'The ghosts at the feast: contested settlement, land rights, and identity in the Jordanian Badiya’. His article will be published in the...

Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute's 'Lifetime Achievement Award'

The Department is delighted to share the news that our long-time colleague Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, who was the first Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology in this Department, and founder of our Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, has recently received two awards. She received the Royal Anthropological...

The appointment of Dr Juan del Nido

We are delighted to welcome Dr Juan del Nido as the Philomathia ‘Ethics of Technology’ postdoctoral fellow to the Department and specifically to the Max Planck-Cambridge Research Centre. Juan recently completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship after his PhD, at the University of Manchester and he brings a fantastic range of...

Engaging with the so-called “hard to reach” in cancer field research

According to scientists and health professionals, the promise of early cancer detection is underpinned by three key ideas: cancer is more treatable if diagnosed early; medical and statistical technologies can 250x250-hands_pump_priming-hard_to_reach.jpg sort populations according to clinical constructions of ‘cancer risk...

Three ESRC Fellows join the Department for 2020-21

We are delighted to have three ESRC fellows in the Department in 2020-21. Dr Sofia Ugarte Since the turn of the century, Latin America has witnessed the displacement of millions of its inhabitants due to ongoing political instability, economic crises, violence, land scarcity, rapid urbanisation, and poverty in different...

The newly established Caroline Humphrey Chair in the Anthropology of Inner Asia has been awarded to Professor David Sneath

Applications invited for Evans Fellowships

National Student Survey

Graduate Photographic Competition 2021 Launched

Church and the Ancestors: Sacred pir mats from Asmat, Papua, Indonesia (3 December 2020 – March 2021)

PhD student Fred Wojnarowski has been awarded the IUAES Commission on Nomadic Peoples Best Student Essay Prize 2020

Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute's 'Lifetime Achievement Award'

The appointment of Dr Juan del Nido

Engaging with the so-called “hard to reach” in cancer field research

Three ESRC Fellows join the Department for 2020-21

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