Mummified Baboons Shine New Light on the Lost Land of Punt
Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes.
[more]Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes.
[more]Dale Eickelman is honored and recognized for his exceptional service to the field of Middle East Studies. Over 18 years at NYU, 27 at Dartmouth College, and continuing past his retirement in 2016, he has worked to build the intellectual infrastructure of interdisciplinary Middle East Studies: He co-founded and served for six years on a joint committee of the ACLS/SSRC for comparative study of Muslim societies in the 1980s. He also served as external reviewer for Middle East Studies centers and on anthropology and other program panels for NEH, Fulbright, and SSRC.
[more]Anthropology Associate Professor, Sienna Craig, has received funding for a project to address the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the outbreak. "Structural Inequality and Epidemiological Invisibility: Himalayan New Yorkers Respond to COVID-19" is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, The Endangered Language Alliance, and University of British Columbia.
[more]Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award. The award, established in 2013, recognizes a member of the Human Biology Association, in the early years of her or his career, for a significant contribution to the field of human biology and the promise of future significant contributions.
[more]Dartmouth's Neukom Institute announced next year's class of Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows, recruited out of a pool of 106 applicants. Incoming fellows include Ryan Collins (PhD. 2018) [Anthropology & Geography; Mentors - Deb Nichols, Jesse Casana, and Jonathan Chipman]
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