Anthropology - ANNOUNCEMENTS

Professor Jacob Blanc wins the AUS Most Outstanding Professor Award!

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:18:58 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Jacob Blanc, jointly appointed in History and the Institute for the Study of International Development, for winning the 2024 award for Most Outstanding Professor from the Arts Undergraduate Society!

Read about it here.

New Policy Brief on Climate Adaptation Finance

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:54:18 +0000

ISID is pleased to release a new policy brief entitled "Climate Adaptation Finance: the Gap Between Needs and Resources Continues to Grow", by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir along with his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez.

Read about it HERE

Honours Information Session - April 3

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:50:39 +0000

Wednesday, April 3 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in LEA 738

Please see attached flyer for more information.

Announcing the 2024 ISID Graduate Travel Awards

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:46:09 +0000

MA students enrolled in the Development Studies Option and PhD students supervised by ISID faculty members and associate members are invited to apply for the 2024 ISID Graduate Student Travel Grants. Grants will range from $500-$1500.

ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:42:54 +0000

Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press. In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.

Dean's Reception for Fellowship Recipients

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:02:30 +0000

Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)

Fellowship Announcement 2023-2024

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:57:45 +0000

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 fellowship recipients!

Trudeau Scholar: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/lily-cannelle-mathieu

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, /gps/funding/achievements/vanier-canada-graduate-scholarship/2023-vanier-scholars

Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology 2023 - Prof. Colin Scott

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:44:25 +0000

Weaver-Tremblay 2023: Anthropological Activism for Territories of Life

11/16/2023 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM, TMCC Hall F

Prof. Colin Scott has received the prestigious Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology for his “longstanding commitments to the territorial rights, sovereignty, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples in Canada.”

New Ecozoic Initiative - Dept. of Anthropology seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:44:09 +0000

The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.

Meilin Ma (2021), Ryersonian interview with Sandra Hyde on “Racism against Asians in North America Surging,” March 29. https://ryersonian.ca/racism-against-asians-in-north-america-surging/

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:48:15 +0000

Congratulations to Dr. Hillary Kaell who won a SSHRC Insight grant for a 5-year project on ecological and spiritual disruptions in coastal regions of the United States

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:19:10 +0000

VOX POPULI ON PANDEMIC by Prof. Sandra Hyde (The Hill Times, 2021)

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:03:19 +0000

“Epidemics are not random events that drop from the sky without warning. Epidemic outbreaks follow the fault lines of society, where they begin to entrench more” along racial and economic disparities

Congratulations to our incoming MA student Daisy Couture for winning a McCall MacBain Scholarship!

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:46:21 +0000

The McCall MacBain Scholarship enables students to pursue a fully funded master’s or professional degree at ƽ��岻�� while connecting with mentors and participating in an intensive leadership development program.

Prof. Katherine Lemons' book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural SAMSA Book Award

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:56:12 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Lemons whose book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) has just received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) Book Award, which recognizes scholarship taking place within the field of South Asian Muslim Studies.

Prof. Ronald Niezen awarded a Distinguished James ƽ��岻�� Professorship

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:43:58 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Ronald Niezen, , for being awarded a Distinguished James ƽ��岻�� Professorship

Many congratulations to Prof. Hillary Kaell (jointly appointed with the School for Religious Studies) for being awarded a Wlliam Dawson Chair

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:31:31 +0000

Sandra Teresa Hyde - Editor for a 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:18:17 +0000

Sandra Teresa Hyde was the Editor for 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness titled "Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling."

Medical Anthropologists weigh in on COVID-19

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:15:39 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic sadly removed members of the Anthropology department from our face to face collective spaces. To fill this void, the Anthropology Graduate Students collectively created Talking Culture and its mini-series COVID Conversations. As the producer and host, Alejandra Melian-Morse conducted nine interviews on how COVID-19 entangled scholarship and lives. These podcasts showcase how Anthropology asks questions and fosters meaningful conversations through creative digital media, generating novel ways to think about this pandemic.

Winter term: Professional Development Seminar Winter 2021 ANTH 609 with Prof Sandra Hyde

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:12:26 +0000

Time: Select Mondays Livestream on Zoom from 12:35-1:35 pm on zoom Office hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm or by email request Email: sandra.hyde [at] mcgill.ca Please kindly contact during working hours.

Prof Lemons wins honourable mention for her recent book

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:39:39 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Katherine Lemons for winning the Honorable Mention for her book, Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press 2019) from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, 2020.

Fall 2020 Course Descriptions and Syllabi

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:18:11 +0000

Check out the Courses page for updated course descriptions and syllabi for the Anthropology courses you can take in Fall 2020!