News

Announcement, Faculty, Research

UBC Anthropology researchers secure 2024 SSHRC funding

July 21, 2025
Faculty

Aleksa Alaica receives 2025 NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement

July 21, 2025
Faculty, Publication

“It All Comes Down to Drucker”: Dilemmas of Anthropological Evidence in The Nuchatlaht v British Columbia

June 27, 2025
Students

Rooted in the artistry of two Nations featuring Riannon Wesley

June 27, 2025
Announcement, Faculty

Amir Shiva Receives 2025 Undergraduate Teaching Award

June 17, 2025
Announcement, Faculty

Vinay Kamat Promoted to Full Professor and Appointed Head of Anthropology at UBC

June 11, 2025
Announcement, Students

New Courses for Winter 2025

June 10, 2025
Announcement, Research, Students

Anthropology Student Spencer Millar Receives Nunavut Grant

May 27, 2025

2025 Anthropology Student Awards

May 27, 2025
Students

2025 Graduates Reflect on Their Time at UBC Anth

May 23, 2025

Celebrating the Graduating Class of 2025

May 21, 2025
Achievement, Research, Students

Jonathan Eaton wins University of Colorado Student Paper Competition

May 20, 2025
Faculty, Publication, Research

Language improves health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities

April 30, 2025
Announcement

Support for those impacted by the tragedy at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival

April 30, 2025
Announcement

UBC Anthropology community at BC Studies 2025 Conference

April 29, 2025
Announcement

Faculty and Students at 2025 CASCA Conference in Montreal

April 29, 2025
Announcement, Faculty, Research

Managing Climate Risks to Living Heritage at Talluruti, Nunavut

April 23, 2025
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty

Sara Shneiderman and co-authors receive Royal Asiatic Society Award

April 15, 2025
Event Highlight

Nuxalk Strong at MOA: An Exhibition Celebrating Healing, Sovereignty, and Cultural Resurgence

March 28, 2025
In the Media, Students

UEFS Students Support Climate Resilience in Vancouver’s DTES

March 28, 2025
Announcement, Faculty, Research

New Research Cluster led by Kristen Barnett explores Indigeneity in and out of place

March 28, 2025
Faculty, Research, Students

Transforming Class Materials into Open Education Resources

March 28, 2025
Announcement, Faculty

Charles Menzies Delivers Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture

March 28, 2025
Publication, Research

Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal

March 28, 2025
Publication

Bruce Miller on Stephen Grant Baines: The Power of International Networks

March 28, 2025
Faculty, In the Media

Mark Turin: Trump's English Language Order Upends America's Long Multilingual History

March 20, 2025

Rediscovered video: Archaeological Field Work with the Gitxaala Nation

February 28, 2025
In the Media, Students

Dear Jellyfish, I'm Sorry for the War We Waged

February 28, 2025

Sharing A Bowl of Tea: Sustaining a Japanese Art Practice in Canada

February 28, 2025
Faculty

Meet Visiting Professor Yafei Jiang

February 28, 2025
Announcement

Coffee Cookies Conversation in 2025

February 14, 2025
Faculty, Research

Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

February 4, 2025
Announcement, Research, Students

A Relational Unfolding: Reflections on Fostering Conditions for Transdisciplinary Education

January 31, 2025
Announcement, Research

DECLARE BC: Disparities in Emergency Care: Lessons and Actions for Remote Equity in BC

January 30, 2025
Faculty

Meet Visiting Professor Lin Bu

January 28, 2025
Faculty

I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists

January 28, 2025
Achievement, Students

Jonathan Eaton receives Erve Chambers Heritage and Tourism Student Paper Award

January 28, 2025
Faculty, In the Media

Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?

January 28, 2025
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty

Congratulatons to Alison Wylie on being awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam

January 27, 2025
Faculty, In the Media

Getting Them 'Out of the Way': Consent and Forcible Transfer in the US-Australia Refugee Swap Deal of 2016

January 27, 2025
Faculty, Featured

Q&A with Dr. Lennon Mhishi

January 27, 2025

How Musqueam became a leader in ground penetrating radar

January 7, 2025
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
Announcement

Dr. Tracey Heatherington received a SSHRC Connections Grant to support "Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency."

May 4, 2021
Achievement, Students

Congratulations to Department of Anthropology Award Winners.

May 4, 2021
Achievement, Alumni

Gregory Gan (PhD 2019) was awarded first prize for his "Impossible Cities" installation...

May 3, 2021
Achievement

Dr. Wade Davis received the Public Service Award, Lifetime Achievement in Canada-Latin America Relations, Canadian Council for the Americas 2021.

May 3, 2021

Anthropology of Media: Now offered in-person or in a live virtual course

April 21, 2021
Achievement

Congratulations to Prof. Heather Robertson on receiving the Open Champion’s Award!

April 20, 2021
Achievement

Congratulations to Prof. Sabina Magliocco on receiving the Open Champion’s Award!

April 20, 2021
Alumni, Featured

Diana Marsh

April 15, 2021
Achievement, Students

ADOPTED BY TLINGIT, DESCENDED FROM MOHAWK: HOW LEARNING LINGÍT HELPED UBC STUDENT DISCOVER HER HISTORY AND STRIVE FOR A FUTURE OF RECIPROCAL, RESPECTFUL RESEARCH

April 6, 2021

The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Immigrant Communities

March 31, 2021
Alumni, Featured

Dr. Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

March 24, 2021
Faculty, Featured

Dr. Camilla Speller

March 24, 2021
Faculty, Featured

Tracey Heatherington

March 24, 2021
Featured, Students

Anudeep Dewan

March 24, 2021
Students

Robert Hanks

March 24, 2021
Featured, Students

Caitlyn Yates

March 24, 2021
Featured, Students

Younus Mushtaq Ahmed

March 24, 2021
Announcement, Students

Applying for the 2021 Sts’ailes Archaeology Field School

March 3, 2021

Anthropology in the News

February 10, 2021

Puppetry Exhibition Wins National Award and Officially Launches Virtual Exhibit!

January 5, 2021

New UBC Centre for Migration Studies

November 20, 2020

Welcome New Faculty!

November 19, 2020
Event Highlight

Anth Colloquia: Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Expertise, Citizenship, and Technocratic Imagination in the Indian Himalayas

October 8, 2020
Event Highlight

Anth Colloquia: Drum Breach: Error Politics, Operational Temporalities, and the U.S. WIPP Nuclear Waste Repository's Kitty Litter Accident

September 30, 2020
Event Highlight

Anth Colloquia: Faculty and Grad Roundtable on Research During A Pandemic

September 13, 2020
Announcement

STATEMENT ON THE SCHOLAR STRIKE CANADA

September 9, 2020
Achievement, Faculty

Congratulations on your retirement!

September 8, 2020
Event Highlight, Faculty

The Faculty Brown Bag Lunch Series

September 6, 2020

3C: Coffee, Cookies, and Conversation!

September 6, 2020
Event Highlight

Upcoming Events

September 6, 2020
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Anthropology in the News

September 6, 2020
Announcement, Students

Status of Academic Year 2020-21

September 6, 2020

Anth 540B-002 Anthropology of Science and Technology

August 3, 2020

Anthropology Sessional Teaching — Winter 2020-21, Term 2

July 30, 2020

ANTH 303A-200 Ethnography of Special Areas

July 30, 2020

News from the President's Office

July 10, 2020

Anth 217-002: Culture and Communication

July 10, 2020

Anth 303A-002: Ethnography of Special Areas – Anthropology of the Middle East

July 10, 2020

ANTH 201A-002 Ethnic Relations

July 9, 2020
Research, Students

Anthropology Student Projects

July 9, 2020

Sts'ailes Archaeology Field School Documentary

July 7, 2020

First Ever ANTH Virtual Graduation Celebration

July 1, 2020

ARCL 235 Controlling Nature: Plant & Animal Domestication

June 22, 2020

Summer Term 2 online courses

June 22, 2020

ANTH 202A-001/RGST 200-001: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION

June 22, 2020

Department Brochure

June 18, 2020

Statement of Solidarity from the Dept of Anthropology, UBC

June 8, 2020

ANTH Virtual Graduation Celebration

June 2, 2020

Status of 2020 summer terms

April 25, 2020

UBC Behavioural Guidance: COVID-19 Research Restrictions

April 1, 2020

March 2020 Anthropology Newsletter

April 1, 2020

Status of Department of Anthropology in Relation to COVID-19

March 19, 2020

Archaeology Day Event Postponed

March 12, 2020

Q&A with Wall Scholar Mark Turin

March 10, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Granville Miller

March 5, 2020

Dr. Julie Cruikshank awarded Polar Knowledge Canada’s 2019 Northern Science Award

February 20, 2020
Event Highlight

February 6, 2020 'Ambivalence in Korean Parent-Child Relationship

February 6, 2020

UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Charles Menzies

February 4, 2020

Ethnographic Approaches to Indigenous Mapping Seminar

January 30, 2020

Term 2 2019-2020 Colloquia

January 16, 2020

Faculty Brown Bag Talk Series: John Barker

January 9, 2020

Grad or Post-Doc TA for Practicing Medicine Course in New York City Summer 2020

December 9, 2019

UBC-O Post Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Homelessness Community Based Research Project

December 9, 2019

UBC Major External Awards Update

December 9, 2019

Mitacs Internship Opportunity - United Way of the Lower Mainland

December 9, 2019

4th Annual Concordia Graduate Conference's Call for Papers Deadline Extended

December 9, 2019

Office Holiday Hours

December 9, 2019
Event Highlight

December 3, 2019 'Reluctant Exiles to Voluntary Diaspora: Post 1997 Migrations from Hong Kong

December 3, 2019

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Claudia Rankine

December 2, 2019

UBC First Year Experience (FYE) Educators’ Symposium

December 2, 2019

United States National Institute on Drug Abuse Funding Opportunity

December 2, 2019

BIPOC Connections: Staff and Faculty Lunch

December 2, 2019
Event Highlight

November 28, 2019 'Reverse Ethnography: Strategies for Recovering from Anthropological Search and Rescue

November 28, 2019

ASTU 4XX: Tools of Travel

November 26, 2019

ANTH 540: Humans and Animals

November 26, 2019

Isummiqtauniq: Thought Gift

November 25, 2019

November 2019 Anthropology Newsletter

November 25, 2019
Event Highlight

November 19, 2019. 'Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

November 19, 2019
Event Highlight

November 19, 2019 'A Career Dedicated to Researching Human/Plant World Making: The UBC Roots

November 19, 2019

Working Together to Enhance Ecosystem Sustainability: A Sylix/Settler Science Collaboration

November 19, 2019

2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Now Open

October 17, 2019

Recent Books by Faculty Members

October 17, 2019

Term 1 2019-2020 Colloquium

October 17, 2019

Anthropology Talk Series: Dr. Tracey Heatherington

October 16, 2019
Event Highlight

October 10, 2019 'Early monumental architecture and public ritual at La Blanca, Guatemala'

October 10, 2019
Event Highlight

September 26, 2019, 'Alternative Anthropologist: Navigating a Path Beyond the Academy

September 26, 2019
Event Highlight

September 26, 2019, 'When Forest Run Amok. Violence and its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

September 26, 2019

Remembering Professor Emeritus Kenelm Burridge

May 28, 2019
Event Highlight

March 28, 2019, 'The Clam Garden Network'

March 28, 2019
Event Highlight

March 14, 2019, 'But is it really Anthropology?'

March 14, 2019
Event Highlight

January 31, 2019, 'Did Secret Societies Create Inequalities in the Upper Paleolithic?'

January 31, 2019
Event Highlight

January 24, 2019, 'Capacity, corporeality, containment: Boundary maintenance and social exclusion in Malaysia and Australia'

January 24, 2019

UBC Anth Colloquia: Molly Malone

January 21, 2019

Remembering Professor Emeritus, Cyril S. Belshaw

December 10, 2018
Event Highlight

November 29, 2018, 'Documentary as Present/Presence: Crises, community, and human-damaged landscapes'

November 29, 2018
Event Highlight

November 22, 2018, 'The Monkey as Mirror'

November 22, 2018
Event Highlight

November 1, 2018 'More-than-Human Democracy: On the Political Lives of Cows, Rivers, Mountains, and Gods in India’s Central Himalaya'

November 1, 2018

UBC Press 'Memory' book features members of our Department

October 9, 2018

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Public Scholars Initiative Cohort

October 9, 2018
Event Highlight

October 4, 2018 'Secwepemc People, Land and Laws at Pípsell: Uncovering and reclaiming connections to place and knowledge'

October 4, 2018

Q&A with Dr. Camilla Speller, new UBC Anthropology professor

October 2, 2018

Ethnographic Film Unit to relocate into a purpose-built space

September 23, 2018

Remembering Professor Emeritus, Martin G. Silverman

July 13, 2018

Q&A with Alexia Bloch on her new book, Sex, Love, and Migration

June 23, 2018

New class: ANTH 206, Anthropology of the Supernatural

June 6, 2018

Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC

April 30, 2018

Dr. Vinay Kamat and Dr. Andrew Martindale awarded SSHRC Insight Grants in April 2018

April 9, 2018

Click here to RSVP for the Hawthorn Lecture

March 9, 2018
Event Highlight

Hawthorn Lecture: Marisol de la Cadena, “When Nature is not Only Nature? Stories from the Anthropo-not-seen"

January 25, 2018
Event Highlight

November 16, 2017, 'Can We Measure ‘Impacts’ to Culture? The Role of Anthropology in Canada’s Shifting Legal and Regulatory Regimes'

November 16, 2017

Disseminating the Findings of the Study “Natural Gas Projects and Community Development in East Africa”

November 9, 2017

Q&A with Daisy Rosenblum

November 9, 2017
Event Highlight

November 2, 2017, 'Repatriation from an Angolan Perspective: Politics, Advertising, and Business'

November 2, 2017
Event Highlight

October 19, 2017 'The Fire and the Rose are One: Eroticism and Ritual as Agents of Change in American Contemplative Christianity'

October 19, 2017

Coffee, Cookies and Conversations

October 9, 2017
Event Highlight

October 5, 2017 'Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Vernacular Ontologies and Animal Afterlives'

October 5, 2017

Sara Shneiderman receives SSHRC award to study Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction

September 10, 2017

Congratulations to Bruce Granville Miller, 2017 CASCA Fellow

September 6, 2017

Welcome Back from Michael Blake, Department Head

September 6, 2017

Q&A with Dr. Sabina Magliocco

September 6, 2017
Event Highlight

March 16, 2017 'Intangible and Archaeological Heritage; the Pixan of Santa Elena, Yucatan'

March 16, 2017
Event Highlight

February 9, 2017 'Offshore Extractions and the Everyday Life of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru'

February 9, 2017

Q&A with Leslie Robertson - Editor of BC Studies

January 10, 2017

Hawthorn Lecture: Sherry B. Ortner

December 30, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Solen Roth

December 22, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Jeong Shin An

December 21, 2016

Urban Ethnographic Field School

December 20, 2016

Q&A with Charles Menzies - Vancouver Faculty Representative to UBC’s Board of Governors

December 15, 2016

December 7, 2016

ANTH 302: Ethnography of South Asia

December 6, 2016

UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Sabina Magliocco

December 5, 2016

ARCL 228: Forensic Anthropology

December 2, 2016

ANTH 227: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

December 2, 2016

Constructed Coastlines of the Salish Sea

December 2, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Chris Arnett and Colin Grier

December 1, 2016

ARCL 306 Summer Field School

December 1, 2016

Dr. Bruce Granville Miller, recipient of CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award

December 1, 2016

Brown Bag: Vinay Kamat

December 1, 2016

Call For Papers: UBC Annual 14th Archaeology Day

November 28, 2016

Coffee, Cookies, and Conversations

November 25, 2016
Event Highlight

November 24, 2016, 'Learning to Embody the Radically Empirical'

November 24, 2016

Welcome CASCA/AAA Attendees

November 13, 2016

Recent Publications

November 13, 2016

The Anthropology of Asia Talk Series: Dr. Ayami Nakatani

November 12, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Dr. Laura Rival

November 11, 2016
Event Highlight

November 8, 2016, 'Art Talk: Gossip and Speculation about Market Change in the South Asian Art World”'

November 8, 2016
Event Highlight

November 7, 2016, 'The Science of Healing'

November 7, 2016
Event Highlight

October 27, 2016, 'From a Model to a Full Sized Angyaaq'

October 27, 2016
Event Highlight

October 20, 2016, 'I Heart Korea'

October 20, 2016

Colloquium with Dr. Alpa Shah

October 11, 2016

Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths: A Roundtable Discussion

October 11, 2016

A Green College Cross-sectoral Series

October 11, 2016

Remembering Kenelm Burridge

October 11, 2016

ANTH Talk: Dr. Hugh Gusterson

October 10, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Dr. Margaret Bruchac

October 10, 2016

UBC Anth Colloquia: Chan Yuk Wah

October 10, 2016

Faculty Brown Bag: Dr. John Barker

October 9, 2016

Killam Award Announcement

October 9, 2016

UBC Climate Strike Resolution

October 9, 2016

March 14 Colloquium

October 7, 2016

Meet our Graduate Students

October 7, 2016

Join us for this year's event!

October 6, 2016
Event Highlight

October 6, 2016, 'People of the Saltwater'

October 6, 2016

Poster Conference 2019

October 5, 2016

March 28 Colloquium

October 4, 2016

President's Lecture on January 24

October 3, 2016

January 31 Colloquia

October 2, 2016

SSHRC Announcement

October 1, 2016

Term 2 Colloquia

September 30, 2016

Killam Fellowship Announcement

September 29, 2016

Voices of Ethnobiology

September 29, 2016

Remembering Cyril S. Belshaw

September 28, 2016

Graduate applications are available online

September 28, 2016

Q&A with new UBC Anthropology professor

September 26, 2016

Applications open until October 15

September 25, 2016

Ethnographic Film Unit to relocate to a purpose-built space

September 24, 2016

Congratulations to 2018-2019 PSI Scholars

September 23, 2016

Lab of Archaeology welcomes new staff

September 22, 2016

Meet the New Editor of BC Studies

September 22, 2016

Enrol today on the SSC

September 19, 2016

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

September 17, 2016

Book Release from Sara Shneiderman

September 16, 2016

2017-18 Term 2 Colloquia Series

September 15, 2016

Upcoming Poster Conference

September 14, 2016

Experiential Learning Opportunity

September 14, 2016

Enrol in ANTH100 on the SSC

September 14, 2016

Colloquium with Dr. Luisa Del Giudice

September 13, 2016

Join us on November 16

September 13, 2016

Congratulations to our colleagues

September 13, 2016

Apply now for ARCL 306

September 12, 2016

Hawthorn Lecture with Dr. Marisol de la Cadena

September 12, 2016

Vinay Kamat's CIRDI funded workshop

September 12, 2016

Our 2017-18 Colloquia Series Begins

September 9, 2016

October 5th Colloquium

September 8, 2016

Welcome Back from Dr. Michael Blake

September 6, 2016

Congratulations to Bruce Granville Miller

September 5, 2016

Welcome Dr. Sabina Magliocco

September 5, 2016

ANTH 540C

September 4, 2016

We're so proud!

September 4, 2016

Read Michael Kew's new publication

September 3, 2016

UBC Anth Faculty Brown Bag Series: Dr. Bruce Miller

September 3, 2016

Canadian Anthropology Society Award Winners

September 3, 2016

Book release from Kirsten Bell

September 2, 2016

Talk by Gideon Shelach-Lavi

September 2, 2016

Wall Institute Announcement

September 1, 2016

Congratulations to the Graduating Student Leaders

September 1, 2016

Congratulations Dr. Shneiderman on joining the Wall Institute

August 30, 2016

Sitara Thobani's Book Release

August 29, 2016

A Partnership with NASA

August 28, 2016

Congratulations Wade Davis

August 27, 2016

Colloquium with Laura Osorio

August 25, 2016

Marie Watt's Blanket Stories

August 25, 2016

On the Horizon - Poster Session

August 25, 2016

Q&A with Leslie Robertson

August 25, 2016

Happy Holidays from Anthropology

August 25, 2016

Charles Menzies - BOG Faculty Representative

August 25, 2016

Watch Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann's video for The Royal Society of Canada

August 25, 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 Vanier Scholars!

August 25, 2016

Congratulations Dr. Shaylih Ryan Muehlmann

August 25, 2016

Job Opening: Assistant Professor

August 25, 2016

Colloquium: Dr. Charles Menzies

August 25, 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 Banting Fellows!

August 25, 2016

Read Our Monthly Newsletter

August 25, 2016

Enroll in ANTH 540C today!

August 25, 2016

Graduate Student Stories

August 25, 2016

Congratulations Ms. Jessica DeChamplain

August 25, 2016

ANTH Imagine UBC and Back to School BBQ

August 23, 2016

Charles Menzies publishes new book

August 19, 2016

Graduate Student Orientation

July 26, 2016

Congratulations Dr. Michael Blake

June 29, 2016

Killam Doctoral Scholarship Recipients

June 27, 2016

Congratulations Yvonne Diamond

June 21, 2016

Congratulations to Eleanore Asuncion

June 15, 2016

Students learn about the Japanese Tea Ceremony

June 1, 2016

Our highly ranked department

April 1, 2016
Event Highlight

March 24, 2016, 'The State's Own Anthropology: Comparative Cases from California and Palestine'

March 24, 2016
Event Highlight

March 24, 2016, 'Keeping the Road Open: Waiting, Migrating and the Domestication of Hope in Kyrgyzstan'

March 24, 2016
Event Highlight

March 17, 2016, 'The Absorption Hypothesis: How People Learn to Hear God and Experience Spirituality'

March 17, 2016

Archaeology Day 2016: The Stuff of Lives: Materiality in Culture & Archaeology

March 9, 2016
Event Highlight

March 7, 2016, 'Men Are Animals: The Perils of Naturalizing Male Violence and Sexuality'

March 7, 2016

Dr. Bruce Miller’s new book published

February 26, 2016
Event Highlight

February 24, 2016, 'Edge-Effects: Remediating Crisis & Critique in the Ayoreo Video Project'

February 24, 2016

ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Lucas Bessire

February 15, 2016
Event Highlight

February 4, 2016, 'The Historical Ecology of Cultural Keystone Species and Places of the Northwest Coast'

February 4, 2016

ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Les Field

January 27, 2016

ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann

January 25, 2016

ANTH Colloquium: Dr. Matthew Gutmann

January 25, 2016

Anyang Field School

January 11, 2016
Event Highlight

December 3, 2015, 'An Assessment of Language Vitality among the Mako people of Venezuela and the Importance of Participant Observation Data'

December 3, 2015
Event Highlight

November 26, 2015, 'A book talk with Sara Shneiderman - Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India'

November 26, 2015
Event Highlight

November 12, 2015, 'Maize for the Gods — How a wild grass from western Mexico came to be one of the world’s most important crops'

November 12, 2015

Bruce Miller speaks at Heritage and Burials Policy Forum

November 9, 2015

ANTH Colloquium: Dr. Michael Blake

November 5, 2015

MA and PhD Programs

November 5, 2015

UBC ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE STUDIES

November 1, 2015

Tracey Heatherington: Seed Bombing the Anthropocene

October 11, 2015
Event Highlight

October 8, 2015, 'Permeable Bodies: Children, Cancer, and Biomedicine in Argentina'

October 8, 2015
Event Highlight

October 5, 2015, 'FROM SCIENCE to ART & BACK AGAIN: The Pendulum of an Environmental Anthropologist'

October 5, 2015

Register for ANTH 412

September 28, 2015
Event Highlight

September 24, 2015, 'Linking Language, Culture, and the Environment: Twenty years of Biocultural Diversity Research and Action'

September 24, 2015

Bruce Miller provides key testimony in BC Human Rights case

September 3, 2015

Spaces available for ARCL 232!

August 21, 2015

Dr. Michael Blake’s new book published

August 21, 2015

ORIENTATION FOR TAs AND INSTRUCTORS

August 13, 2015

UNDERGRADRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY FAIR

August 13, 2015

ANTHROPOLOGY BBQ LUNCH

August 13, 2015

Rituals of Ethnicity Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India by Sara Shneiderman

August 12, 2015

Dr. Michael Blake's new book published

August 12, 2015

Dr. Sara Shneiderman’s new book published

August 12, 2015

NEW FALL & WINTER 2015-2016 COURSES

June 13, 2015

AWARD-WINNING FACULTY & STUDENTS

March 17, 2015

WORLD RANKING & UBC'S REPUTATION

March 16, 2015

HUMAN DIVERSITY & COMMONALITY

March 16, 2015

OUR REPUTATION FOR RESEARCH

March 16, 2015

ACCESS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY

March 16, 2015
Event Highlight

February 26, 2015, 'Non-Cock Fights: On Doing ‘Sex’ and Undoing ‘Gender’ in Shatila, Lebanon'

February 26, 2015
Event Highlight

February 24, 2015, 'To Come and Go: Transnational Life Between Mexico and Alaska'

February 24, 2015
Event Highlight

January 15, 2015, 'The Temporality of the Seascape in the Southern Strait of Georgia'

January 15, 2015
Event Highlight

November 27, 2014, 'Taiwan's Enigma: Recent Archaeological discoveries in Taiwan and their implications for the prehistory of Southeast Asia'

November 27, 2014
Event Highlight

November 13, 2014, 'Substance of Self-Determination: Language, Culture, Archives and Sovereignty'

November 13, 2014
Event Highlight

November 6, 2014, 'Transformations of Chinese Patriarchy'

November 6, 2014

Mark Turin’s BBC Radio series on language in Bhutan & Burma

October 17, 2014

Anthropology Colloquia: Transformations of Chinese Patriarchy

October 10, 2014

Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

October 10, 2014

GRADUATE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC

October 1, 2014

Congratulations Michael Richards

September 17, 2014
Event Highlight

September 12, 2014, 'Ethical (W)Holistic Linguistics: Endangered Languages at the Crossroads of Social Science, Humanities, Science, and Community Activism'

September 12, 2014
Event Highlight

September 11, 2014, 'Spaces of Education, States of Ruination and Survival'

September 11, 2014

Archaeological Laboratory Partnership Course with Musqueam Indian Band

August 29, 2014

ANTH 220 with Dr. Charles Menzies

August 8, 2014

Mark Turin Featured on BBC Radio Series

August 8, 2014

NEW COURSE CODE – ARCL

July 18, 2014

Renowned linguist Mark Turin to helm UBC First Nations Languages Program

July 2, 2014

Take ANTH 100 with Dr. Wade Davis

June 25, 2014

New ANSO Community Food Garden

April 23, 2014
Event Highlight

February 6, 2014, 'Embracing Our Treasures: Nuxalk Ways of Being'

February 6, 2014
Event Highlight

January 30, 2014, 'Elephant-induced displacement and the power of choice: Moral Narratives about Resettlement in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park'

January 30, 2014

Wade Davis, acclaimed anthropologist and author, joins the University of British Columbia (by UBC News)

December 18, 2013

Congratulations to Clayton Whitt

December 6, 2013
Event Highlight

November 14, 2013, 'Between Time and History: An Archaeology of Food and Settlement on the Northwest Coast'

November 14, 2013
Event Highlight

November 7, 2013, 'Mapping the Indigenous Divide: A Post-Indigenous Response to Colonization'

November 7, 2013
Event Highlight

October 17, 2013, 'Where the Water Meets the Land: Between Culture and History in Upper Skagit Aboriginal Territory'

October 17, 2013
Event Highlight

October 3, 2013, 'The Vulnerability of Archaeological Logic in Aboriginal Rights and Titles Cases in Canada'

October 3, 2013
Event Highlight

September 19, 2013, 'Secrets and Truths: Knowledge Practices of the Romanian Secret Police'

September 19, 2013

YouTube2

May 9, 2013

UBC Archeology dig in Anyang, China – 2012

April 30, 2013

About Anthropology

April 5, 2013

About UBC

April 5, 2013

About Vancouver

April 5, 2013
Event Highlight

March 14, 2013, 'Reaching Marginalized Populations in the Cultural Shadows'

March 14, 2013
Event Highlight

February 28, 2013, 'Screening The Olympic City'

February 28, 2013

Congratulations to Vishala Parmasad

February 28, 2013

Photography Notice

February 6, 2013
Event Highlight

January 31, 2013, 'Onerous Ancestry: Researches Toward Being on the Right Side of History.'

January 31, 2013
Event Highlight

January 17, 2013, 'The ICT revolution comes to Melanesia: connectivity and mobile phone use in Papua New Guinea'

January 17, 2013
Event Highlight

November 22, 2012, 'Culturally Modified Capitalism. The Native Northwest Coast Artware Industry'

November 22, 2012
Event Highlight

November 1, 2012, 'The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers'

November 1, 2012
Event Highlight

October 18, 2012, 'Entangled in the Fur Trade: The Archaeology of Contact on the Lower Columbia River'

October 18, 2012
Event Highlight

October 4, 2012, 'Authorizing Moral Crusades: Rights Talk and Literary Trafficking'

October 4, 2012
Event Highlight

March 29, 2012, 'Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Bodies, Boundaries and Claims to Public Space'

March 29, 2012
Event Highlight

March 29, 2012, 'Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Bodies, Boundaries and Claims to Public Space'

March 29, 2012
Event Highlight

March 1, 2012, 'Boxing Out: Road Building, Globalization and Spatial Reconfigurations in Yunan, Southwest China'

March 1, 2012
Event Highlight

February 16, 2012, 'Death in the Pyramids: The Isotopic Anthropology of Sacrifice at Teotihuacan'

February 16, 2012
Event Highlight

January 26, 2012, 'Seals and hunters on Lake Baikal in Siberia'

January 26, 2012
Event Highlight

January 12, 2012, 'Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History - A Discussion'

January 12, 2012
Event Highlight

November 23, 2011, 'Ambiguous Intimacies: Of Affect, Power, and Mobility in Sex Tourism, Northeast Brazil'

November 23, 2011
Event Highlight

November 15, 2011, 'Nikkeijin Filipino Youth in Japan: Sex, The State, and Shadowy Citizenship'

November 15, 2011
Event Highlight

November 7, 2011, 'Stone Bead Making from the Indus to Chiba: Comparative and Experimental Studies'

November 7, 2011
Event Highlight

November 3, 2011, 'CHANGING PERSPECTIVES OF THE INDUS CIVILIZATION: RECENT DISCOVERIES IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA'

November 3, 2011
Event Highlight

October 27, 2011, 'COLLABORATIVE, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY:CONCERNING ITS CURRENT CONDITIONS AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES'

October 27, 2011
Event Highlight

"October 6, 2011, 'UNSEEN POWERS AND DEMOCRATIC DETECTIVES : STREET VENDORS IN AN INDONESIAN CITY'

October 6, 2011
Event Highlight

September 8, 2011, 'BETWEEN INDIGENEITY AND NATIONALITY: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND NATURE IN RUSSIA'S DIAMOND PROVINCE'

September 8, 2011
Event Highlight

March 29, 2011, 'Telling Tales of Migrant Workers: Religion, Activism, and Women's Narratives'

March 29, 2011
Event Highlight

March 4, 2011, 'Only Apes Have Human Nature'

March 4, 2011
Event Highlight

March 3, 2011, 'Stranger-Kings, Enemy Heads, Affinal Kin, and Other Foreign Riches: The Alterity of Power and Vice-Versa'

March 3, 2011
Event Highlight

February 24, 2011, 'Neandertals deciphered'

February 24, 2011
Event Highlight

February 3, 2011, 'Holy Innocence: Sin, Childraising, and Memory in Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism'

February 3, 2011
Event Highlight

January 20, 2011, 'Global Health Business: The Production and Work of Health Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany'

January 20, 2011
Event Highlight

November 4, 2010, 'Tortured Bodies: Speaking Terror and the Epistemic Violence of the Chilean Commission on Torture and Political Imprisonment'

November 4, 2010
Event Highlight

October 14, 2010, 'What's in an Argument? Preliminary Reflections on Knowledge Exchanges'

October 14, 2010
Event Highlight

October 5, 2010, 'Shamans, Gender and Leadership in Ancient East Asia'

October 5, 2010
Event Highlight

October 1, 2010, 'Documenting Large and Small Histories in Late Prehistoric South India: Scalar views from and to Kadebakele'

October 1, 2010
Event Highlight

September 30, 2010, 'Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion'

September 30, 2010

Welcome new faculty!

August 19, 2010

Vancouver

August 19, 2010

Environmental Studies

August 19, 2010