New Montonna Professor Named at Maxwell School
Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology, was recently awarded the Dr. Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Professorship for the Teaching and Education of Undergraduates. She will hold the professorship for the 2022-23 academic year.
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Novak and Warner-Smith Paper Selected for Funding by SAR
An NSF research team seminar proposal, "Excavating Bodies in the Archives: Generating New Methods and Collaborations," co-authored by Professor Shannon Novak and Alanna Warner-Smith '22 Ph.D. (Anth) has been selected for funding by the School of Advanced Research.
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PhD Candidate Matthew Greer Awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Matthew Greer was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to fund two years of research on a new project on whiteness in the Antebellum South.
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Alumnus Christopher Waters Quoted in BBC Article on Tracing Slave Names and Origins
Alumnus Christopher Waters was quoted in the BBC article, "'There's power in names': Antigua unearths lost ancestors."
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Ayşe Durakoglu Wins 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Program Young Scholar Prize
Ph.D. student Ayşe Durakoglu was awarded the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Program Young Scholar Prize for her paper, “Food, National Identity and Culinary Tourism: The Case of Go Türkiye Tourism Platform in Turkey.
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Bhan Receives Lender Center Faculty Fellowship
Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology, was awarded a Lender Center Faculty Fellowship to investigate how artificial intelligence weapons systems transform war and surveillance and accentuate people’s social and political vulnerabilities to violence.
See related: Autonomous Systems, Awards & Honors, Cybersecurity, Ethics, Human Rights
Memory, Destruction, and Traumatic Pasts in Cuba: The Escuadrón 41 During Batista’s Dictatorship
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Basketball Legend John Wallace '12 Says Tubman Field Study 'Was an Awesome Experience’
The former NBA player is among the many athletes who participated in the summer course at the Harriet Tubman Home.
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‘An Incredible Endeavor’
In Harriet Tubman’s bicentennial year, alumni and faculty reflect on their role preserving her legacy and take stock of new milestones, including a national park designation, a book and the $20 bill.
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Maxwell Faculty, Graduate Students Contribute to New Social Sciences Book
Faculty members Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane are among the co-editors and contributors to this handbook, which investigates the social contexts of health—including food and nutrition, race, class, ethnicity, trauma, gender, mental illness and the environment—to explain the complicated nature of illness.
See related: Aging, Gender and Sex, Health Policy, Natural Disasters, Race & Ethnicity
Rubinstein Piece on Onondaga County’s Lead Poisoning Crisis Published on Syracuse.com
"$85M for aquarium better spent attacking lead poisoning," co-authored by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Robert Rubinstein, was published on Syracuse.com.
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Bhan Discusses the Himalayan Community of Brogpa in VICE Article
Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology and Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, was quoted in the VICE article, "This ‘Aryan’ Community’s ‘Exotic’ Clothes and Polyamorous Marriages Mask Other Truths."
See related: Parenting & Family, Race & Ethnicity, South Asia
Singleton Receives Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award
Professor Theresa Singleton received a 2022 Graduate Faculty Recognition Award.
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Maxwell Faculty, Staff and Students Honored at 2022 One University Awards Ceremony
The 2022 One University Awards were held Friday, April 22, in Hendricks Chapel. The annual event honors members of the Syracuse University community who are making a difference through academics, scholarship, creative work and dedicated service.
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Anthropology Student and Alumna Earn National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
The fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the U.S.
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Porous Borders, Invisible Boundaries?
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Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Perspectives in Uncertain Times
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Armstrong Piece on Using Archaeology to Examine Harriet Tubman’s Life Published in Ms. Magazine
Professor Doug Armstrong's article, "Using Archaeology to Rediscover Harriet Tubman’s Life in Freedom," was published in Ms. Magazine.
See related: Archaeology, New York State
Rubinstein Contributes Chapter to Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
The chapter, "Cultural Anthropology Studies of Conflict," was co-authored by Maxwell alum Fethi Keles '08 M.A. (Anth)/'14 Ph.D. (Anth).
New Book by Armstrong Offers Insights About Harriet Tubman’s Life Following Self-Emancipation
Douglas Armstrong, professor of anthropology, has published a new book, “The Archeology of Harriet Tubman’s Life in Freedom” (Syracuse University Press, 2022).
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