April 2008

Susan Silbey has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

Heather Paxson is the 2008 recipient of Levitan Prize in the Humanities, for "Economies of Sentiment, Ecologies of Production: Crafting American Artisanal Cheese" as well as one of 2 recipients of the 2008 Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

February 2008

Heather Paxson has been promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology, effective July 2008.

June 2007

Jean Jackson attended the American Ethnological Society annual meetings in Toronto, Canada. She presented “Traditional, transnational and cosmopolitan: the Yanacona of Huila , Colombia , look to the past and to the future” for a session on “From strategic essentialism to essential strategies: Indigeneities and governmentalities in Latin America.” Additionally, Professor Jackson served as a discussant for a session on “Beyond Authenticity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism.”

Heather Paxson has been appointed Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and will begin this new position on July 1st, 2007. Additionally, she has been awarded the 2007 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Post-Ph.D. Research Grant for " Economies of Sentiment, Ecologies of Production: Crafting Locality in American Artisanal Cheesemaking."

Erica James presented "Report on the History and Ethnography of the Catholic Charities Haitian Multi-Service Center" and "The United States and Haiti: Human Rights, Democracy, and Security" at the Haitian Multi-Service Center in Dorchester, MA.

December 2006

Erica James presented "Ruptures, Rights, and Repair: The Politics of Truth in Haiti" at the Justice in the Mirror: Law, Culture, and the Making of History Symposium at Yale University.

September 2006

Jean Jackson attended a conference on "Longevity & Optimal Health: Integrating Eastern & Western Perspectives." Her paper, titled "'Extreme behaviors' resulting from integrated body/mind disciplines: The cross-cultural evidence," was part of a panel discussing "Protection." The conference took place at the Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center in Phoenicia, New York. The participants included His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Gehlek Rimpoche, Lasker prize recipient Elizabeth Blackburn, and Dean Ornish. A volume containing conference papers will be published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Erica James presented "Causes and Consequences of Urban Violence" at the Haitian Ambassadorial Seminar for Janet A. Sanderson, Office of External Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State and National Intelligence Council (NIC), Washington, D.C.

Visiting Scholar Constance Perin has published a review of an edited volume of 18 articles on the Columbia shuttle disaster in Administrative Science Quarterly.

June 2006

Heather Paxson gave a paper at the Meeting of the Agricultural History Society held at MIT titled "Sheep, Goats, and Cows: An Animal Anthropology of Artisanal Cheeses and their Landscapes." She also gave a paper at the Joint Meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society at Boston University titled "Cultivating Terroir in American Artisanal Cheese Production."