Iris Sheu wins 2013 Howe Prize
MIT Anthropology is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 James Howe Prize is Iris Sheu for her paper entitled "Patient Barriers to Mental Health Care for the Cambodian Population in Lowell, MA." More
MIT Anthropology is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 James Howe Prize is Iris Sheu for her paper entitled "Patient Barriers to Mental Health Care for the Cambodian Population in Lowell, MA." More
Professor Graham Jones receives the 2013 MIT Edgerton Award for exceptional distinction in teaching and research. More
Professor Heather Paxson was interviewed by Boston Globe correspondent Jane Dornbusch for a feature article on her latest book, The Life of Cheese. More
Professor Ian Condry's new book heralds 'creative collaboration' with the masses as the key to anime's worldwide popularity. More
Professor Christine Walley's new book recounts the painful aftermath when steel plants suddenly closed in the American heartland. More
Professor Heather Paxson's new book, The Life of Cheese, is reviewed in Scientific American. More
Professor Heather Paxson was interviewed by journalist Amy Chozick for a New York Times article about the importance of food and meals in family relationships. More
Professor Heather Paxson's new book The Life of Cheese, delves into the ethos, methods, of politics of artisanal cheese-making. At a time when the ethics of food is an important issue for many Americans, the work offers a unique glimpse of people who have taken food-making into their own hands. More
Professor Stefan Helmreich's book Alien Ocean, Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, has won the 2012 Rachel Carson Book Prize, given by the Society for the Social Study of Science to recognize a book-length work of special social or political relevance in the area of science and technology studies. More
Professor Susan S. Silbey, head of MIT's Anthropology Program, has received the 2012 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association (ASA) for her "outstanding contribution to the discipline." More
MIT Anthropology, along with Women's and Gender Studies, D-Lab, and STS, is sponsoring a day-long workshop at MIT on Gender, Technology & Development on October 26, 2012 in building N51, 3rd floor, from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. The workshop aims to engage cross-disciplinary dialogue among anthropologists, economists, engineers, and students interested in issues relating to gender, international development, and technology design and transfer. Anthropology faculty Heather Paxson and Chris Walley will serve as discussants. Register now at http://web.mit.edu/gendertech/.
Associate Professor Christine Walley's and Chris Boebel's Exit 0 Project seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization, and to look towards a future of economic opportunity and environmental justice for Southeast Chicago residents. More
Associate Professor Christine Walley and Chris Boebel are documentary filmmakers and advisors to the Open Documentary Lab @ MIT. They are currently collaborating on Exit Zero, a documentary about one family's experience of deindustrialization in southeast Chicago. More
Associate Professor Christine Walley and Chris Boebel receive an award from the LEF Foundation for their documentary project, Exit 0. More
Assistant Professor Graham Jones was among the recipients of the 2012 James A. and Ruth Levitan Awards for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. More
Susan S. Silbey, head of MIT Anthropology, and Ruthanne Huising PhD '08 have been awarded the 2011 best publication prize from Regulation & Governance for their article, "Governing the Gap: Forging Safe Science Through Relational Regulation." More
Sensate, a peer-reviewed, open access online academic journal, will be publishing materials from the Sensing the Unseen seminar, a year-long series of talks organized by Professors Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson in 2010-2011. To find out more about the Sensing the Unseen seminar and hear podcasts of the presentations, please click here. More
Professors Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson are spending the Spring 2012 semester traveling and teaching with Semester at Sea, a global education program sponsored by the University of Virginia that offers undergraduates the opportunity to explore different regions and cultures all over the world. More
Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has announced that Erica Caple James, associate professor of anthropology, has received the James A. ('45) and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities. The $25,000 prize is awarded annually as a research fund to support innovative and creative scholarship in the humanities. More
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