The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is currently in the midst of its annual weeklong celebration of poetry as part of National Poetry Month, which is held every April. This year the library is celebrating the work of Weatherspoon ’25, who is also curating the week’s events.
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The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees has granted tenure to five faculty members.
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This summer, Anya Workman received a Riley Research Award from the anthropology department to conduct ethnographic fieldwork on two smallholder farms in rural Minnesota.
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Traveling across the nation with the latest iteration of the Grateful Dead, Shira Cooper ’24 joined a community of like-minded “Deadheads” for a summer of music and ritual dancing. These experiences form the basis of the philosophy major’s summer research project.
Read moreThe anthropology professor coauthors a widely shared article in The Conversation exploring what might happen if the search for extraterrestrial life yields results.
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The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum officially reopens in the new and dramatic John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies with three inaugural exhibitions.
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ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom.
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With the heavy lifting now complete, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ’s newly relocated Arctic Museum starts to take shape. As it prepares to open its doors in May, museum staff are excited by what the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies has to offer.
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A ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ graduate is among the diplomats and other senior government officials from the US and Greenland who convened on campus this week to discuss the strengthening of ties between America and the Arctic island nation.
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Over 200 students received fellowships from ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ this summer to pursue independent research with a faculty advisor.
Read moreWe conduct field research in rural and urban locations from Australia to the Arctic and on topics as varied as ancient warfare, outer-space colonization, climate change, intimate violence, media production, and social activism. Employing emergent methodologies and established ones—like remote-sensing and participant/observation—we investigate local meanings, global connections, power inequalities, and processes of change.