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Evanston, Illinois
Joined November 2019
Professor Emrah Yildiz's first monograph titled "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders" has been published today by the University of California Press. Congrats Emrah! https://t.co/GGfgkcn1Nl
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Congratulations cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for being awarded the Wenner-Gren dissertation fieldwork grant! This grant is for her project titled "Dirty Business: Claiming Citizenship through Waste Practices and Politics in Indonesia" @heyamrina_
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Congratulations Professor Amanda Logan for being awarded the Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant! This grant is for her project titled "Environmental and human health at the medieval urban center of Ile-Ife, Nigeria"
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Prof. Emrah Yildiz has just published kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق: Fugitive Forms of Bureaucracy and Economy across Southwest Asia—a special issue he edited for the Journal of Cultural Economy 17(2). Read the volume and his article here: https://t.co/IDAjAy9t1R
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Every year, 80,000 tons of kaçak (contraband) tea, primarily of Sri Lankan and Iranian origin, makes its way to the markets of Turkey – itself the fifth-largest producer of tea in the world. While ...
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Congrats to anthropology PhD candidate Elijah Watson for receiving the Edward E. Hunt, Jr. Award for his presentation "Evaluating the convergent and predictive validity of epigenetic age acceleration measured from common epigenetic clocks in Cebu, Philippines” Congrats Elijah!
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NU medical anthropology MPH/PhD student Gerpha Gerlin was recently interviewed as an advisory council member for the Northwestern Prison Education Program on mental health programming at Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers. Read more here: https://t.co/qiiezwSCsT
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NU biological anthropology PhD Candidate James K Gibb published a journal titled "Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic" Read here: https://t.co/bxvNJAPgai
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NU cultural anthropology PhD Candidate Sofyan Ansori's work is featured in Mongabay in a piece titled, “2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño.” You can find it here: https://t.co/asVP7PkAzm. Congratulations @cappimpong !
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Congratulations to NU cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for receiving the Pattana Kitiarsa SEAC Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper “Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant as Intellectual” https://t.co/Z5a2W6Ex2w Congrats @heyamrina_ !
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Prizes for Books and Scholarship East and Inner Asia Council Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) Susan Naquin, Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000...
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NU PhD Candidate Syd González published a piece titled "The Sanctity of 2AM Fic Time" in Anthropology News' Silence issue. This piece highlights the importance of fanfiction in times of silence. @squidgonza Read here: https://t.co/soNoOWz443
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Fanfiction has long been a tool for fans to enact their agency on fictional characters—exploring relationships, expanding on canonical scenes, and placing
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This piece presents the concept of dispersed rooting to understand the significance of Palestinian visual and material productions in Jordan through the examination of art and traditional clothing, as well as the consumption of souvenirs. 2/2
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NU PhD Candidate Kyle Craig published a piece in the Journal of Palestine Studies titled “Rooting the Palestinian Shatat in Jordan: Art, Objects, and the Matter of Belonging.” 1/2 @Kyle_B_Craig Read here: https://t.co/XJPeFuq8WN.
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This article presents the concept of dispersed rooting in order to understand the significance of Palestinian visual and material productions in Jordan. The authors argue that the production of art...
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NU Anthropology PhD student Gerpha Gerlin participated in a podcast profiling her journey co-developing a course alongside her TA, Bobaloo, who is incarcerated. The course will be taught at Stateville Correctional Center in Winter 2024. Listen here! https://t.co/S9ydyKl4Xd
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In this, our second episode, we hear from Gerpha Gerlin, a PhD student in Anthropology who is co-designing a winter-quarter Mental Health and the Media course, as part of Northwestern' Prison...
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Congratulations to NU cultural anthropology PhD student Amrina Rosyada for receiving The Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW)’s Eric R. Wolf Prize for her paper “Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant as Intellectual” @heyamrina_
https://t.co/Ww1lGRWPfX
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NU cultural anthropology PhD Sindhunata Hargyono has accepted the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at Leuphana University Luneburg on the ERC Project Doing Digital Identities (DigID) with the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). Congrats Sindhunata!
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Congratulations to faculty member Emrah Yildiz for receiving the Global Horizons Junior Fellowship with The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study for the 2024-2025 academic year!
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Cultural anthropology PhD candidate Sofyan Ansori edited a special issue for Antropologi Indonesia on environmental narratives. Read more below: @cappimpong
https://t.co/JQokiNDX0V
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Congratulations to recent Northwestern archaeology PhD graduate Jennifer Lupu, who has been awarded a research fellowship at the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry! @archeostudent
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Cultural anthropology PhD candidate Sofyan Ansori is featured in the Talking Indonesia podcast discussing his insights on forest fires from fieldwork with the Indigenous Dayak people in Central Kalimantan. @cappimpong
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In 2015 and 2019 massive forest fires in Indonesia shrouded its neighbours in smoke. In this week’s episode of Talking Indonesia, Dr Jemma Purdey chats to Sofyan Ansori, whose research is focused on...
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Archaeology graduate student Craig Stevens has curated a virtual and augmented reality exhibition of African artifacts with curator Esmerelda Kale at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Link to write-up below: @mrblackatlantic
https://t.co/1dNnhI53R5
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