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MPhil student, Spencer Kaplan, is awarded the Eric Wolf Prize by the Society for the Anthropology of Work

Recent MPhil student, Spencer Kaplan, has been awarded The Society for the Anthropology of Work’s Eric R. Wolf Prize, for his research entitled,’ 'Bringing Your Full Self to Work': The Fashioning of LGBTQ Bankers on Wall Street’. The prize recognises graduate student research on the topic of the anthropology of work...

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology is expanding

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA), has been expanding with a steady increase in entries as well as the addition of a new teaching resource. 250x250-160622b-cea-logo-blue-negative-small.jpg The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a major outreach initiative from the Department of Social Anthropology at...

New publication - Dr Perveez Mody: Spaces of Care

This edited collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities. Featuring chapters by five anthropologists (Koreen Reece, Elena Khlinovskaya...

Applications now open for the new MPhil in Social Anthropological Research at the University of Cambridge

The new MPhil in Social Anthropological Research at the University of Cambridge provides specialist training in Social Anthropology to students with a first degree in the discipline, either on its own or as part of a joint degree. social_anthropology_lecture_given_by_senior_member_of_department.jpg Applications are now...

Decolonising Anthropology: a new online resource

Decolonising Anthropology: a new online resource A collective of teaching staff and students at Goldsmiths, University of London have produced a new online resource to think about decolonisation and its relationship to anthropology as an academic discipline. The aim of the site ( https://www.decolonialanth.co.uk/ ) is to...

Ori Mautner named winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion student essay prize competition.

Ori Mautner has been named winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion student essay prize competition. The American Anthropological Association’s Society for the Study of Religion has named Ori Mautner, one of our current PhD students, winner of this year’s prize for the best student essay. Our warmest...

Dr Jacinta Victoria Muinde wins the ASAUK Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies

Dr Jacinta Victoria Muinde wins the ASAUK Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies We are delighted to announce that one of our recent former graduate students has won a prestigious award for her PhD dissertation. Dr Jacinta Victoria Muinde, who studied for her PhD (2013-2018) at the...

How did homeless people and the support services they depend on, cope during the Covid-19 pandemic?

How did homeless people and also the support services they depend on, cope during the Covid-19 pandemic and specifically the stay-at-home orders? Based on several months of fieldwork as a volunteer and numerous interviews in several institutions in the UK, Dr Johannes Lenhard continued his work with homeless people, the...

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize 2020 - Jacob Seagrave

Every year, the Department awards a prize of £200 to the most outstanding IIB dissertation. The prize is named in memory of Dr Sue Benson (1948-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and who was an inspiration, both personally and intellectually for generations of...

Prof David Sneath on the BBC World Service: Consulting the Oracle

Prof David Sneath's fascinating research was explored recently in a BBC World Service radio programme entitled, Heart and Soul: Consulting the Oracle. Listen to the programme here

MPhil student, Spencer Kaplan, is awarded the Eric Wolf Prize by the Society for the Anthropology of Work

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology is expanding

New publication - Dr Perveez Mody: Spaces of Care

Applications now open for the new MPhil in Social Anthropological Research at the University of Cambridge

Decolonising Anthropology: a new online resource

Ori Mautner named winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion student essay prize competition.

Dr Jacinta Victoria Muinde wins the ASAUK Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies

How did homeless people and the support services they depend on, cope during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Winner of the Sue Benson Prize 2020 - Jacob Seagrave

Prof David Sneath on the BBC World Service: Consulting the Oracle

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