Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
Longtime professor and MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jean Jackson retires after 42 years at MIT.
MIT anthropologist of science explores how scientific “things” emerge.
Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Journal volume advances research stalled by political agendas
Anthropologist Erica James examines the effectiveness of aid to those on the margins of society.
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
For exceptional distinction in teaching and research
MIT anthropologist’s new book recounts the painful aftermath when steel plants suddenly closed in the American heartland.
MIT anthropologist looks inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheese-makers.
Mikusheva receives Elaine Bennett Research Prize; Petersen wins Distinguished Book Award; Helmreich wins Rachel Carson Prize.