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Students

Term 2 Courses: ARCL103 & ANTH303I

December 6, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Students

Jay Hilsden receives 2024 Peter Wall Legacy Award

December 3, 2024
Research, Students

Haunting the seas: the legacy of ghost gear pollution in marine environments

November 29, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, In the Media, Students

Steve Daniel Inducted into CFL Hall of Fame

November 29, 2024
Announcement, Students

Congratulations to our November 2024 Anthropology Grads

November 29, 2024
Announcement, Students

2024 Dr. Dan Small Prize Awardees Announced

November 29, 2024

Field School in Nepal in Summer 2025

November 4, 2024
Announcement, Students

Apply by Nov. 8 | Hugh Gusterson's Lind Initiative Seminar

October 31, 2024
Announcement, Faculty

Anthropology & Surveillance Webinar

October 29, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research

A Homecoming for Digital Himalaya

October 29, 2024
Achievement, Students

Caroline Stampliaka Receives American Folklore Society Award

October 28, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty

Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared from the War on Drugs

October 28, 2024
Achievement, Research, Students

Sisi Yang Named 2024-25 IAR Research Fellow

October 28, 2024
Event Highlight, Research, Students

PhD Candidate Felix Giroux Presents at Harvard University

October 28, 2024
In the Media, Research, Students

Why Swachh Bharat is a Clean Mission, but a Dirty Job

October 28, 2024
Achievement, Event Highlight, Faculty

Millie Creighton's 35 years of service at UBC recognized in Tempus Fugit Ceremony

October 28, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research

Vinay Kamat Receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

October 28, 2024
Faculty, Research

The State of Disaster and Resilience Literature in British Columbia

October 25, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Hugh Gusterson featured on Examining Totalitarianism Trends Podcast

October 25, 2024
Announcement, Students

Field School in Alaska with Kristen Barnett

October 11, 2024
Announcement, Students

Field School in Sardinia with Sabina Magliocco in Summer 2025

October 8, 2024
Alumni

Alumni Q & A with Jad Brake

September 23, 2024
Students

Sisi Yang Participates in Write to Change the World OpEd Project

September 23, 2024
Announcement

Religion, Death & the Senses

September 23, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research

Congratulations to our SSHRC Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant Awardees

September 13, 2024
Announcement

Call for Nominations: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

September 6, 2024
Announcement

2024/25 Anthropology Colloquium Series Fall Line Up Announced

September 6, 2024
Announcement, Students

The Ethnograph is Open for Submissions and Volunteers

August 30, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Disciplining subjectivity in Australian migrant deterrence campaigns

August 30, 2024
Announcement, Research

A moral economy of care: How clinical discourses perpetuate Indigenous-specific discrimination and racism in western Canadian emergency departments

August 30, 2024
Announcement

Megan Muller da Silva Appointed Co-Chair of CASCA Medical Anthropology Network

August 30, 2024
Students

Congratulations Prisha Vaidya

August 30, 2024
Faculty

Millie Creighton on Teaching the Way of Tea

August 30, 2024
Faculty

Faculty in Sardinia

August 30, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Sabina Magliocco Interviewed by Folkwise

August 30, 2024
Faculty, Featured

Q&A with Dr. Sam Walker

August 27, 2024
Faculty

The Administration of Everyday Life in Nepal: A Special Issue of Anthropological Quarterly

July 23, 2024
Faculty, Research

Enhancing campus resilience in response to climate hazards

July 23, 2024

What We Can Learn From Anthropology

July 11, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Capitalism and Colonialism – Settler and First Nation: An Uneasy History

July 8, 2024
In the Media, Students

Protecting India’s Sanitation Workers: Addressing Period Taboos in Menstrual Waste Management

June 26, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

More Female Peacekeepers Essential to Protect Children in Conflict Zones

June 26, 2024
Students

Amrit Tamang Receives 2024 Himalayan Studies Fellowship

May 28, 2024
Alumni

Eloise Spitzer (BA '63) Receives Honorary Law Degree

May 28, 2024
Achievement, Faculty

Bruce Miller Receives 2023 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing

May 27, 2024

2024 Anthropology Student Awards

May 27, 2024
Announcement, Faculty

Amir Shiva and Zahra Hayat Receive Undergraduate Teaching Award

May 26, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Students

Congratulations to the Anthropology Graduating Class of 2024!

May 24, 2024
Announcement, Students

The Ethnograph, Volume 8 Now Available

May 14, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth

May 10, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Beneath the Surface of Things: New Book of Essays By Wade Davis

May 10, 2024

Jiaqi Wang receives CMS International Art Competition Award for Poetry

May 10, 2024
Announcement, Faculty

Alexia Bloch and Elif Sari Participate in CMS Research Conference

May 7, 2024
Announcement

MOA and LOA Statement of Cooperation

May 6, 2024
Faculty, Featured, In the Media

Is There Something Fishy About the Polygraph?

April 30, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring

April 30, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty

The Canadian Archaeological Association Working Group on Unmarked Graves Receives GG Innovation Award

April 30, 2024
Announcement, Research

Exploring K’ómoks Long-term Indigenous Fishering and Management Practices for Herring and Salmon

April 22, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty

Amirpouyan Shiva Receives Killam Teaching Prize

April 17, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Research Clusters Renewed in 2024

March 26, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Associate Faculty Member Dr. Danya Fast New Book Raises Tough Questions

March 25, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

New Research Cluster Led by Camilla Speller Aims to Help Decolonize Curation

March 22, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Research Fellowship

March 22, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Helena Zeweri Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant

March 22, 2024

Anthropology Student Receives Climate Storytelling Fellowship

March 22, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research

Dr. Kristen Barnett named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Archaeology

March 20, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Opiates and the Masses: Populist Oligarchy and the Totalitarian Itch in the U.S.

March 20, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Students

2023-2024 Anthropology Dissertation Writing Award

March 20, 2024
Announcement

UBC Library Offers New Anthropology Resource

March 20, 2024
Research, Students

Urban Ethnographic Field School Application Deadline Extended to March 29

March 12, 2024
Alumni

Emily Leischner Receives Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Fellowship

February 28, 2024
Alumni

Bendi Tso Receives Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford

February 28, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Diaspora, War, Gaza

February 22, 2024

Seeing our World in 16:9 Aspect Ratio, an Indigenous Film Journey

February 21, 2024
In the Media, Students

Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to See in the Liminal Spaces of Post-Wildfire Landscapes

February 21, 2024
Faculty

Millie Creighton on Japan, Past and Present

February 21, 2024
Announcement, Students

New Summer 2024 Courses

February 13, 2024
Announcement

Susan Webster to Speak at Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference

January 29, 2024
Announcement

Between Care and Criminality: New Book by Dr. Helena Zeweri

January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students

First Annual Anthropology TA Awards

January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students

Karen Thomas receives Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship

January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students

Sophie Mckenzie Receives John Bodley Student Travel Award

January 29, 2024
Faculty

Dr. Helena Zeweri Coordinates Borders Research Group

January 29, 2024
Faculty

Future-Proofing Your Town Sounds Great, Until You Try It

January 29, 2024
Achievement, Students

Moira Irvine Archaeological Research Fund Awardees

December 1, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Featured, Research

Dr. Andrew Martindale work with Indigenous Communities recognized with SSHRC Impact Award

November 24, 2023
Announcement, Featured

Anthropology researchers co-direct new collaborative research hub, part of NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science partnership

November 21, 2023

Publication Round Up December 2023

November 15, 2023
Achievement, Faculty

Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring

November 14, 2023
Faculty, In the Media

Faculty in the News - December 2023 Round Up

November 12, 2023
Announcement, Faculty

Leslie Robertson promoted to Full Professor

November 7, 2023
Announcement, Students

Celebrating Fall 2023 Graduation

November 1, 2023
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Celebrating 25 Years of Cooperative Research with Gitxaala

October 23, 2023
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Disaster Resilience Research Network receives funding from BC Ministry

October 20, 2023
Announcement

Cheslatta Carrier First Nation Visit LOA

October 4, 2023
Students

2023 Urban Ethnographic Field School Dan Small Award

September 30, 2023
Announcement

Welcome to the 3Cs - Coffee, Cookies, and Community!

September 14, 2023
Event Highlight, Featured

Save the Dates! ANTH Colloquia Series 2023-24

September 1, 2023
Announcement

Millie Creighton at the Powell Street Festival

August 6, 2023
Featured

ANTH Colloquia: “Contemporary Colonial Frontier Making: Thinking from the Operational Digital enclosure in Northwest China” by Professor Darren Byler

March 7, 2023
In the Media

ANTH/SOCI Annual Racial (In)justice Lecture by Professor Helena Hansen

March 6, 2023
Event Highlight, Featured

ANTH Colloquia: “Policy, Extractivism, Decolonization” by Professor Tess Lea

March 2, 2023
Featured

ANTH Colloquia: "Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples" By Bruce Miller

January 16, 2023

2022 President's Service Award for Excellence: Congratulations Patricia Ormerod

October 12, 2022

CRC in Indigenous Archaeology Dr. Kristen Barnett joins Anthropology

July 28, 2022

ANTH 202: Cool Media: The Graphic Art of Telling Tales by Dr. Nicola Levell

July 5, 2022

Prof. Andrew Martindale has been appointed as one of 10 members of the National Advisory Committee on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials

July 5, 2022

ANTH303 “Anthropology of Childhood” by Dr. Aleksa Alaica

July 4, 2022

New Course: PPGA 591F, Neoliberalism and Policy by Professor Gusterson

June 9, 2022

Anth437- Gardens of Culture, Professor Tracey Heatherington

June 2, 2022

Evan Koike wins postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University

June 1, 2022

Anth 540C_ ANTHROPOCENE IMAGINARIES: Professor Tracey Heatherington

May 31, 2022

RGST 400: New Age and Neopagan Religions: Professor Sabina Magliocco

May 31, 2022

ANTH316 - Culture, Power, and Politics, Instructor: Dr. Helena Zeweri

May 24, 2022

Anthropology 495. The Last Class: Anthropology, the Indigenous World, and the State

March 22, 2022

Interview with Dr. Bruce Miller, “Expert Witness: An Inside Look at the Human Rights Tribunal System”

March 7, 2022

New Film Released: Basketball Warriors (A Production of the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC)

February 4, 2022

Hugh Gusterson was interviewed by The Intercept for a story on the Biden Administration and drone warfare.

February 4, 2022

"Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" by Dr. Kathryn Graber (Indiana University, Bloomington)

January 18, 2022

Annual Racial (in)Justice Lecture: “Colonialism and Modern Social Theory: Decolonising an Absence”, DATE Friday January 28, 2022 TIME 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

January 18, 2022

ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. David Geary, “Taking Selfies with the Buddha: tourists, pilgrims, and archaeological intimacies in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh”

October 26, 2021

ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. Darcy L. Mathews, “Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea”

October 26, 2021

Nicola Levell has won the American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology's 2021 Michael Ames Prize

October 18, 2021

Department deadline for Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships application: October 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm.

October 18, 2021
Students

Eric Simons and Katherine L. Nichols recent publication: "Archaeology’s Role in Finding Missing Indigenous Children in Canada"

October 1, 2021
Featured

New Course: Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia

August 3, 2021

New Course: Molecular Archeology

July 20, 2021

New course: Archaeology of Ancient China

July 20, 2021

New course: Archaeology and Society

July 20, 2021
Announcement

Return to campus in fall 2021

June 1, 2021
Announcement

Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Residential School

June 1, 2021
Achievement, Students

Congratulations on receiving the CASCA Outstanding Graduating Student Award!

May 21, 2021
Announcement

2021 Virtual Graduation Ceremony

May 18, 2021
Announcement

Register for the Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency Conference!

May 17, 2021
Achievement, Alumni

Postdocs awarded!

May 6, 2021
Featured, Students

Brianna Plant, President of the Anthropology Student Association for 2020-21

May 5, 2021