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Jeffrey Kahn awarded the 2020 Herbert Jacob Book Prize

Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

The Herbert Jacob Book Prize of the Law and Society Association is the most prestigious award there is in the entire field of law and society, or social science and law, awarded to the best book in that field during the year.

Gorilla family feuds: violent encounters between gorillas slow population growth - Dr. Damien Caillaud

Congratulations to Dr. Damien Caillaud and his colleagues with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund on their publication in Science Advances (11/4/2020).

Their work examines five decades of data to evaluate the role of social behavior on growth rate in a subpopulation of mountain gorillas monitored by the Fossey Fund. “The Virunga gorilla population has been increasing for almost 40 years, but its habitat has not.

Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game - Dr. Randy Haas

Congratulations to Dr. Randy Haas, who is lead author on a new article (11/4/2020) that made the cover of Science Advances, "Female Hunters of the Early Americas."

It has also been featured in Science Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic and the New York Times. His research team unearthed the remains of a 9000-year old burial of a young adult woman associated with a hunting toolkit of stone points, ocher and animal processing tools in the highlands of Peru.