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The Department is honored to have won awards from the California State Senate and Legislature for fostering and maintaining a family friendly workplace environment
Professor Joseph has won the 2024 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award for her copious and influential research and service post-retirement. Only one person in the 10 campus UC system receives this award each year.
Professor Kahn will lead a five-day Advanced Seminar (with Professor Sharad Chari, UC Berkeley Geography) entitled "An Oceanic Anthropology for the Near Future", with additional support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Professor Kahn is co-winner of the 2024 article prize from the Latin American Studies Association for his 2023 Current Anthropology article, "Racializing Aesthetics: 'Boat People,' Maritime Worlds, and the Metonymy of the Haitian Sloop."
Chelsea Cataldo-Ramirez won the AABA (American Academy of Biological Anthropologists) Outstanding Student Presentations Award for her talk titled: "The use and misuse of proxy phenotypes in genotype-phenotype research." Her talk was presented in the "Undermining the production of race science" symposium
Tim Choy and his collaborators Joseph Masco (Chicago), Jake Kosek (Berkeley), and M. Murphy (Toronto) are celebrating after submitting their collaboratively written book manuscript on alternative concepts and methods for addressing multiscalar environmental violence. The book is the outgrowth of Engineered Worlds, a four-campus research and teaching collaboration.
Li Zhang’s book, Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (University of California Press, 2020), won Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing (2021), presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
Edges and Encounters: As part of the launch of UC Davis’s Designated Emphasis in Environmental Humanties, Marisol de la Cadena co-organized a momentous public dialogue with Donna Haraway and Kim Stanley Robinson on critical and speculative ecological thought and action. It can be found at Donna Haraway and Kim Stanley Robinson in Conversation
The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital in the Eastern Congo
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo125521791.html, is garnering acclaim. Prof. Smith’s book won the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, as well as a Special Commendation for the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. It was also a finalist for the African Studies Association’s Best Book Prize.
Sourcing songs from across the globe, Manvir Singh, an assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, and his fellow researchers found that people from different types of societies can successfully identify a song’s type by how it sounds, regardless of the language of its words.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that there is an association between how songs sound and their place in our emotional lives.
Associate Professor Tarek Elhaik was appointed to co-direct a 5-year interdisciplinary research program composed of 16 international fellows: philosophers, historians, curators, artists, conservators, and anthropologists. The title of the program is 'Future Flourishing' and is one of three programs that won the 2023 competition for CIFAR, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Global Call entitled the Future of Being Human.
