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Prof. Edelman has played an integral part in Public Anthropology's online students community, showcasing the ability of Hunter students to learn effective writing skills while being active global citizens.
Book Launch: A Wintry Day in Damascus: Syrian Stories an Event Presented by the Author Jonathan Holt Shannon
Set in Damascus on the eve of the revolutionary transformations that began in March 2011, A Wintry Day offers insights into everyday life in Syria, from music, art, literature, and cuisine as well as to the nuances of political resistance, state corruption and violence, the Palestinian problem, women’s issues, and the complex mosaic of peoples and social classes that make up Syrian society today. A Wintry Day is also a love story revolving around the budding romance of David and Nidal, a Palestinian journalist. It is most of all a paean to the strength and beauty of the Syrian people based on the author’s extensive experience in Syria.
Professor Thomas McGovern on the Changing DNA of the Arctic Fox In Relation to Migration in the Viking Age
"CUNY faculty and graduate students in archaeology have collaborated with an international team of geneticists and biologists in a study of the arctic fox in Iceland. Prior to colonization by Viking Age settlers around AD 850, arctic foxes were the only land mammals on this mid-Atlantic island, probably arriving in early Holocene times across drift ice from Greenland. Comparison of modern Icelandic fox DNA with the ancient DNA extracted from fox bones excavated by CUNY teams from Viking Age sites in Iceland reveals that a second migration took place, probably during the drift ice periods of the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th-18th century. This collaboration among archaeologists, biochemists, and biogeographers provides an example of growing inter-disciplinary collaboration linking natural and social science. Supported by NSF Arctic Social Sciences program, CUNY archaeologists have collaborated with Scandinavian, Canadian, and UK partners in many seasons of excavation of sites in Iceland dating from the first settlement down to the 19th century and they specialize in zooarchaeology (the analysis of excavated animal bones). CUNY is a lead institution in the international North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO, www.nabohome.org), which sponsors cross-disciplinary collaboration across the region. Other ongoing collaborations with aDNA researchers include investigation of the origin and spread of Viking pigs and sheep across the North Atlantic and the genetics of pre-modern codfish stocks. The CUNY team included doctoral students Seth Brewington, Frank Feeley, George Hambrecht, Ramona Harrison, Megan Hicks, Brenda Prehal, and Konrad Smiarowski who identified fox bones from Viking Age Iceland at the Hunter Zooarchaeology Laboratory directed by Prof. Tom McGovern."
International Primatological Society awards Professor Emeritus John Oates its Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Christopher C. Gilbert has discovered fossils of earliest old world monkeys
The discovery of fossil teeth is pushing the existence of old world monkeys back several million years.
7 Public Anthropology Award Winners
Prof. Marc Edelman's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class students competed against 3500 students and 24 school to win the Anthropology award. For their names, check http://www.publicanthropolgy.org/CAW/13-Spring/3-PACAP-MEHC.htm
Shuster Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis
Elaine Gomez a student with Prof Michael Steiper, won the Shuster Award for outstanding Master's Thesis.
Prof. Susser in panel discussion on Mothers as primary breadwinners
Prof Ida Susser participated in a Panel discussion on the Brian Lehrer show on the increasing number of women who are the primary breadwinners for their households and dealing with the challenges of fewer support systems. http://www.cuny.tv/show/brianlehrer/PR2001839
Prof. Marc Edelman addresses UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on a UN Declaration on Peasants' Rights
Professor Yukiko Koga has published an article called "Accounting for Silence: Inheritance, debt, and the moral economy of legal redress in China and Japan in American Ethnologist Vol 40, No.3 pp 494-507
Prof Ignasi Clemente has published in "Oxford Textbook of Pediatric Pain"
Assistant Prof. Ignasi Clemente has a chapter titled, Pain in Cultural and Communicative Contexts in P.J. McGrath (eds. et al) Oxford Textbook of Pediatric Pan (pp 102-110) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Prof. Marc Edelman participated in Civil Society Mechanism (SCM) on January 14, 2014
International Food Security and Nutrition
Top 3 Winners in Best Oral Presentation at the Undergraduate Reseach Conferece held on March 5th and 6th, 2014
Congratulations to our Anthropology Linguistics students on their top awards for best presentations
Tuition Awards for Anthropology Majors with High GPA
Dorothy Keur Memorial Fund for Anthropology Majors
The Department of Anthropology Research and Training (DART) Program
Spring 2014 Recipients of the DART Program
Anthro Bash 2014
Anthropology students came and mingled with their professors, learned more about the program and what we will be offering in the future.
DART GRANT PROGRAM
The Department of Anthropology at Hunter College announces the creation of the DART Program to support undergraduate and graduate research and training. The DART Program will support approximately 5 students per year for research and training with average grants of $1,000.00.
Wednesday March 11, 2015--"Why Black Lives Matter: A Discussion of Race and the Criminal Justice System"
Prof Jessica Rothman awarded NSF Grant
Dr. Jessica Rothman awarded an NSF grant for her project The Geometry of Nutritional Niche Separation among Forest Monkeys
COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION (Fall 2015)
Communication and Social Interaction Wednesday 5:30-7:20 PM Room: HN 710 Instructor: Ignasi Clemente Pesudo
Space, Politics and Culture in New York City (fall 2015)
New course offering for fall 2015: ANTHC 302.52/717.5 A Tale of Two Cities? Space, Politics and Culture in New York City WIth Dr. Filip Stabrowski
Anthropology of Violence (fall 2015)
Fall 2015 course offering: ANTHC 321.66 Anthropology of Violence: Historical and Contemporary Approaches Mon./Thurs. 9.45-11.00am Room: HN 716 Instructor: Salman Hussain
Graduate Students Welcome Party - Sept 8th!
There will be a welcome party for all Hunter anthropology graduate students on Tuesday, September 8th at 7:30pm, in room Hunter North 710 with free pizza and refreshments!
Professor Marc Edelman to be President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society
This November Professor Marc Edelman will begin a two-year term as President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society, to be followed by a two-year term as President. The AES is the largest and oldest organization of cultural anthropologists in the world! Learn more about AES on their website: http://aesonline.org/
Interested in Public Service and Public Policy? The JFEW Eleanor Roosevelt Scholars Program is Recruiting NOW
David Kanbergs awarded Beinecke Scholarship
Anthropology major David Kanbergs has been awarded the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship
Amanda Macini awarded prestigious Fulbright Fellowship
MA student Amanda Mancini has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Madagascar next year. Congratulations Amanda!
"The Zika Virus in Brazil"- A Talk by Dr. Frederico Peres on Wednesday January 8th