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article PhD Candidate, Alexandria Casteel Awarded Prestigious Smithsonian Institute Fellowship

April 29, 2024

Alexandria Casteel has been awarded a prestigious two-year Smithsonian Institute fellowship. Starting July 1st, 2024, she will be appointed as a Smithsonian Environmental Justice Fellow, working out of the Anacostia Community Museum. During this time she will expand her dissertation research, using some of the resources at the Anacostia museum's archives, and have time to work on publications including her dissertation.

article The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin's Gulag

September 16, 2022

Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses at Dartmouth on the native peoples of Alaska, on the Jewish diaspora, and on Russia. Next year—the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago—Dr. Kan will teach a course titled "Red Terror: The History and Culture of the Stalin Labor Camps." Dr. Kan has been kind enough to offer our viewers a preview of the seminar in advance.