Department of Anthropology

A two-day symposium on debates, practices, and philosophical approaches to the posthuman condition, recognizing life's interconnectedness and technology's impact.

Explore why humans love to scare themselves with ghosts, monsters, zombies, and more through Halloween haunted houses, cryptid tourism, legend trips, and other eerie…

This talk explores questions about Jewish identity through ethnographic research with Lemba people, a group of Black South Africans who in the 1980s and 1990s participated in…

In times of social upheaval, how do observant Jewish communities decide who’s in and who’s out? What happens when rules of belonging are challenged by marginalized groups of…