Anthropology graduate Jessica Bertram receives Alan Rackoff Prize

Anthropology graduate Jessica Bertram (BA, Anthropology and Human Biology/Dance & Movement Studies) receives Alan Rackoff Prize for her dance project “She fell, but felt no fear.”

Bertram based her project on research done in the Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory. “I collected a lot of African American materials such as photos, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, books, poems, obituaries and music selections ranging from the late 1800s to the late 1900s.”

She was also selected to perform at the American College Dance Association Conference with Cherry Fung. For more, visit the Emory News Center.

(Photo by Lauren Lindeen)

Congratulations to this year’s award winners and honor students!

Congratulations to this years award winners and honor students!

Anthropology Undergraduate Awards

Outstanding Junior: Deandre Miles

Outstanding Senior: Virginia Spinks

Marjorie Shostak Prize for Excellence and Humanity in Ethnographic Writing: Cameron Barker

Anthropology Graduate Awards:

George Armelagos Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student: Whitney Easton and Daniel Thompson

Anthopology Honor Students

Cameron Barker

Yen Doan

Michelle Kagei

Katherine Nerses

Virginia Spinks

Dr. Jessica Thompson on Homo naledi

In a recent eLife article, Dr. Jessica Thompson discusses how the newly discovered Homo naledi creates more questions than it answers in terms of the evolution of humans. The new discovery certainly illustrates that the evolution of the modern human did not occur in the straight line that we once thought.

This article also made news in the Guardian.

Virginia Spinks receives Humanity in Action Fellowship

Emory Anthropology Alumna Virginia Spinks (BA, 2017) received a Humanity in Action Fellowship. Virginia will join Fellows from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine to participate in the Humanity in Action Fellowship summer program.

Dr. Jenny Chio on media practice, anthropology, and publishing

For the journal Cultural Anthropology, Dr. Jenny Chio reflects on what journals and scholars can do to support, encourage, and create more critical and more challenging media-based work in anthropology. Read her article “Guiding Lines.”

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Month: May 2017