SAR Board of Directors Announces Appointment of Morris W. Foster as Next SAR President
When Michael F. Brown accepted the role as president for the School for Advanced Research in 2014, he committed to leading the institution for ten years. True to…
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Dream to Reality: Beginnings of the Resident Scholar Program at SAR
SAR President Michael F. Brown (since 2014) and former SAR President Douglas Schwartz (1967-2001) on a field trip to Arroyo Hondo just south of Santa Fe in 2016.…
Three SAR Alumni in the National News
Ned Blackhawk (1996), Tiya Miles (2007), and Jeffrey Gibson (2019) at SAR. The Sun…
SAR Welcomes New Board Directors
Over the past six months, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) Board of Directors appointed eight new Board and Advisory Board members. They bring experience in scholarship, language,…
Full-time lab and part time technician positions in plastic pollution research (St. John’s, Memorial University)
CLEAR lab at Memorial University is seeking a full-time and part-time lab technicians. Submit applications by October 1, 2024.
Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024 is Maria-Theres Schuler for her book Disability and Aid. An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee C…
School for Advanced Research Awards the 2024 J. I. Staley Prize to T. M. Luhrmann for “How God Becomes Real”
Top Prize in Scholarship and Writing in Anthropology Awarded for Book That “Shows How Faith Is ‘Kindled’, or Intentionally Brought into Being” Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for…
Dissertation: Living with Javelinas: On the Co-production of Human-Javelina Conviviality in Texas
Abstract This dissertation investigates the coexistence of humans and javelinas in Texas. Through a blend of traditional ethnography, ethology, and GIS mapping, the study explores the dynamics…
APLA Statement in Support of Critical Scholarship
To add your name, complete this form. As concerned anthropologists and social scientists, we join scholars and scholarly associations around … More
Unterstützung in der Redaktion gesucht !
image created with Dall-E: a small, diverse team of journalists in a newsroom with a Miami color palette, pop art style. Hallo! Wir sind ein engagiertes Kollektiv, gemeinsam…
Sudan: cessation of war appears long way off
Written by Jehron Muhammad “If this war (in Sudan) last for several years… the country that we knew as Sudan, …
Repair: AES / APLA Spring Conference 2024
April 4-6, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh In the face of compounding harms—mass extinctions, settler-colonial dispossession, gentrification, displacement—what does it … More
Florida 2024 Annual Meeting: APLA Calls for AAA Transparency
This statement is a call to action from the board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. The Association … More
Call for Papers | Special Issue: Speaking out against genocide and repression
In this special issue, we invite anthropologists to reflect on their responsibilities and experiences of speaking and acting out in response to Israel’s assaults on Gaza, and to…
30 Minute Methods – Ned Rossiter
Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 4pm HCMC time: online – all welcome Topic: 30 Minute Methods TDTU – Title: Reflections on Organized Networks and Collective Research Methods Join Zoom…
SAR Receives $900,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $900,000 from the National Endowment for the…
2024: A Look Ahead
New Year’s festivities inevitably include reviews of the year that’s …
Grounded in Clay Reception at The Met, New York
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Reception at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 2023. …
RG China(s) Kolloquium: Winter Semester 2023
Liang Siran will discuss the human-yak relationship at 4800 meters altitude in Nagqu, China, on 15th December. She bases her ethnographic account on a four-month stay in a…
Statement on the situation in Palestine
Signed by scholars of humanitarianism, war, displacement and related fields, this statement calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the urgent and uninterrupted passage of humanitarian relief.
RG China(s) Kolloquium: Winter Semester 2023
Our monthly colloquium resumes this September. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss…
NEW article on „authoritarian-caring“ parenting styles in China, France and the US by Jean-Baptiste Pettier
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
NEW „The People’s Map of China“ country profile on Switzerland by Lena Kaufmann
Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, this new „The People’s Map of Global China“ country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland…
SAR Receives Major Grant from National Park Service to Achieve Compliance with North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR Rece…