GW Department of Anthropology
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The ginkgo trees on campus are looking very autumnal!
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The ginkgo trees on campus are looking very autumnal!
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Hildebrandt! He successfully defended his dissertation Entangled Labor, Entangled Lives: Work, Reciprocity, and Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Jisr al-Zarqa on August 18th, 2025. Very well done!
August 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Hildebrandt! He successfully defended his dissertation Entangled Labor, Entangled Lives: Work, Reciprocity, and Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Jisr al-Zarqa on August 18th, 2025. Very well done!
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kaplan! On August 12th, he successfully defended of his dissertation titled Cultivating the Umma: Muslim Mobilities and Everyday Aspirations in Istanbul. Great work!
August 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kaplan! On August 12th, he successfully defended of his dissertation titled Cultivating the Umma: Muslim Mobilities and Everyday Aspirations in Istanbul. Great work!
Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Miller! She successfully defended her dissertation on July 11th. It is titled Dopamine Receptor Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adult Rhesus Macaques and Resilience to Early Life Adversity. Excellent work!
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Miller! She successfully defended her dissertation on July 11th. It is titled Dopamine Receptor Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adult Rhesus Macaques and Resilience to Early Life Adversity. Excellent work!
The amenity kit building station has been restocked!
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Stop by HAH to stock up on supplies for the summer!
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Stop by HAH to stock up on supplies for the summer!
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The amenity kit building station has been restocked!
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Stop by HAH to stock up on supplies for the summer!
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Stop by HAH to stock up on supplies for the summer!
Notice any duck graduates hidden around campus? 🦆🎓 There are several in the Hortense Amsterdam House that were left by the CCAS Dean's Office. If you find one, take it home!
May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Notice any duck graduates hidden around campus? 🦆🎓 There are several in the Hortense Amsterdam House that were left by the CCAS Dean's Office. If you find one, take it home!
The CASHP Master's Showcase was a great success! Thank you to Anya Parks-Russell and Joyce Waweru for putting this all together!
May 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The CASHP Master's Showcase was a great success! Thank you to Anya Parks-Russell and Joyce Waweru for putting this all together!
Dr. Richard Grinker will be at InnovationFest today from 2 pm to 3 pm!
He will be meeting attendees and signing copies of his book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
He will be meeting attendees and signing copies of his book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dr. Richard Grinker will be at InnovationFest today from 2 pm to 3 pm!
He will be meeting attendees and signing copies of his book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
He will be meeting attendees and signing copies of his book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Feel free to grab a Play-Doh egg from the Table of Whimsy in HAH, located outside of Dr. Brenda Bradley's office. 🐣 Embrace your inner sculptor to take your mind off the end of the semester.
April 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Feel free to grab a Play-Doh egg from the Table of Whimsy in HAH, located outside of Dr. Brenda Bradley's office. 🐣 Embrace your inner sculptor to take your mind off the end of the semester.
Stop by and visit the Slave Wrecks Project booth at the GW InnovationFest on May 1. They will be there from 10 am to 3 pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the research they do around the world.
April 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Stop by and visit the Slave Wrecks Project booth at the GW InnovationFest on May 1. They will be there from 10 am to 3 pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the research they do around the world.
Congratulations to Dr. Emma Backe! She successfully defended her dissertation on March 25th. It is titled Breathing Through the Wound: Co-opting Care and Surviving Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa. Excellently done!
March 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Emma Backe! She successfully defended her dissertation on March 25th. It is titled Breathing Through the Wound: Co-opting Care and Surviving Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa. Excellently done!
If you didn't get the chance to attend Sheryl Gay Stolberg's public lecture last week, you can now view the C-SPAN recording of it by following this link: www.c-span.org/program/publ...
This event was sponsored in part by GW Anthropology's "Rituals in the Making"
This event was sponsored in part by GW Anthropology's "Rituals in the Making"
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you didn't get the chance to attend Sheryl Gay Stolberg's public lecture last week, you can now view the C-SPAN recording of it by following this link: www.c-span.org/program/publ...
This event was sponsored in part by GW Anthropology's "Rituals in the Making"
This event was sponsored in part by GW Anthropology's "Rituals in the Making"
Congratulations to Dr. Niguss Baraki! On March 25th, he successfully defended his dissertation titled Coevolution of Stone Tools and Hominin Hand Morphology. Excellent work!
March 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Niguss Baraki! On March 25th, he successfully defended his dissertation titled Coevolution of Stone Tools and Hominin Hand Morphology. Excellent work!
Join us on March 17th at 4:30 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CASHP with a lecture from Dr. Zeray Alemseged.
March 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Join us on March 17th at 4:30 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CASHP with a lecture from Dr. Zeray Alemseged.
Contact Dr. Agbelusi if you would like to join our historical archaeology field school at Mount Vernon this summer. Enrollment begins on March 17th.
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Contact Dr. Agbelusi if you would like to join our historical archaeology field school at Mount Vernon this summer. Enrollment begins on March 17th.
This summer, GW will be offering a course in Portugal during the entire month of June. Apply by 3/19!
February 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This summer, GW will be offering a course in Portugal during the entire month of June. Apply by 3/19!
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Nick Rosas! Today he successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled Middle Miocene Artiodactyl Dispersal and Ecology: Implications for Hominid Evolution.
January 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Nick Rosas! Today he successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled Middle Miocene Artiodactyl Dispersal and Ecology: Implications for Hominid Evolution.
The Hortense Amsterdam House got a nice blanket of snow earlier this week. ❄️
January 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Hortense Amsterdam House got a nice blanket of snow earlier this week. ❄️
We would like to invite you to the upcoming public lecture sponsored by our research project, Rituals in the Making, and the GW History Department.
We hope to see you there on January 16th!
We hope to see you there on January 16th!
January 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We would like to invite you to the upcoming public lecture sponsored by our research project, Rituals in the Making, and the GW History Department.
We hope to see you there on January 16th!
We hope to see you there on January 16th!
Rosi and Sissi welcome you to our Bluesky profile. More to come from the GW Department of Anthropology Staff.
December 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Rosi and Sissi welcome you to our Bluesky profile. More to come from the GW Department of Anthropology Staff.