Anthropology News
Collaborations: Tim Choy and his collaborators have completed their manuscript
Tim Choy, Joseph Masco (Chicago), Jake Kosek (Berkeley), and M. Murphy (Toronto) collaborators
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.
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.
Associate Professor Tarek Elhaik appointed as co-director of CIFAR Research Program
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.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Robert Bettinger elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2021
The Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences are a group of distinguished scientists, nominated and appointed in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the natural sciences.
Graduate student Patricio Cruz y Celis Peniche receives National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant).
RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Graduate student Dana Al-Hindi receives National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant)
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Characterization and Functional Validation of the Genetic Architecture of Skin Pigmentation
Associate Professor Jeffrey Kahn selected to be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford for 2022-23
CASBS Announces 2022-23 Fellows
New article shows social and ecological challenges to sleep in our primate relatives
A study of sleep in a troop of wild baboons reveals that catching up on lost sleep might be a luxury that wild animals cannot afford. (Carter Loftus/UC Davis/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior)
Distinguished Professor Suad Joseph receives ACLS grant for her project Decolonizing the Representation of Muslim Women in the Media: Training Next Generation Journalists
ACLS Announces the 2022 Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Grantees
New article led by UC Davis archaeologists outlines paths for peopling of the Tibetan Plateau
Denisovans or Homo Sapiens: Who Were the First to Settle (Permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau? Extinct Denisovans Passed on Genes That Help Tibetans Survive High Altitudes by Kathleen Holder
Associate Professor, Brenna Henn receives grant for international projects.
UC Davis Global Affairs awarded grants to four College of Letters and Science faculty for international projects focused on renewable energy, biodesign, tuberculosis and democracy.
Professor Suzana Sawyer granted a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference/Workshop Award
Workshop: "Mattering Matters" in the summer 2022.
Dr. John Darwent interview: ONGOING RESEARCH IS DIGGING INTO THE HISTORY of one of Alaska’s oldest archaeological sites. Take a look at an extraordinary artifact trove and the people that call it home.
Shaktoolik community and archeologist (Dr. John Darwent) collaboration uncovers the past.
National Academy of Sciences elects Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at UC Davis, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder in 2021
National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members — Including a Record Number of Women — and International Members
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)
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).
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."
Dr. Alan Klima awarded the 2020 Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Alan Klima, Miyarrka Media, and Savannah Shange were awarded the 2020 Gregory Batson Book Prizes from the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Dr. Klima’s award was for his Duke University Press (https://www.dukeupress.edu/ethnography-9) book Ethnography #9. As Alan Klima writes, “there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.” In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the “real” and in the material in academic discourse that does not recognize that it is, itself, writing.
The UC Davis Majors Blog features Anthropology in their recent post!
With a major in anthropology, this article explores how students can go into user experience design, archaeology, research, marketing, forensic science, medicine, and so much more.
Dr. Teresa Steele awarded the Graduate Program Mentoring and Advising Award for 2020
Professor Teresa Steele was awarded the UC Davis Graduate Studies "Graduate Program Mentoring and Advising Award" for 2020 in recognition of her work to establish a professionalism seminar for first-year graduate students and her advocacy for diversity and inclusion:
Dr. Suad Joseph awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-21
Distinguished Professor Emeriti Suad Joseph was awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship Award for 2020-2021. This endowed professorship will allow her to focus on a research project titled “Gendered and Cultural Framework for Refugee Mental Health: The Arab Crisis.”
Sara Watson Awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for 2020
Doctoral candidate Sara Watson awarded an NSF-DDRI for her research into the Middle and Later Stone Age through the analysis of stone technology in South Africa (co-advisor: Drs. Teresa Steele and Nicolas Zwyns)
