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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 7h

Dr. Alessandro Angelini will give a book talk, "Modelo Favela: Miniature Life in Rio de Janeiro," followed by a discussion. 🗓️ Oct. 14, 6 - 7 pm 📍 Chao College Magister House (Rice University) Check the poster for more information.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🎓 Quinn Georgic, Kristin Gupta, and Timothy Quinn were featured as Graduate Certificate students who earned their doctorates. Congratulations!

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Exciting news from our graduate students featured by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality! ✨ 🏆 Hongyun Yu received the Seth Balkishan Das Singhal Award for his paper "Uterotopic Fantasies and Far-Right Gender Imaginaries among Chinese Working-Class Male Migrants in Africa."

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🔗 Rice Anthropology: anthropology.rice.edu/news/alejand... 🔗 Rice Research Magazine: issuu.com/riceuniversi...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Colombia’s hippos raise a difficult question: when animals don’t belong, who decides whether they should live or die? Alejandra Osejo-Varona is one of twenty fellows chosen this year from a pool of 600 applicants. She is featured in the Rice Research Magazine, Spring 2026.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Alejandra Osejo-Varona has been named as one of the outstanding PhD candidates for this year’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for her project, "Hippos in the Afterlives of the Drug Trafficking in Colombia: Enduring Marks on the Magdalena River."

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Professor Howe will lead the editorial board, which oversees the development, peer review, and continuous updating of the digital resource, with new articles added regularly to provide comprehensive coverage of the field. oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/ant...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Professor and Associate Chair Cymene Howe has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, effective Spring 2026. She said, “I’m excited to begin engaging with each of the contributing authors and my excellent team of Area Editors at Oxford Bibliographies!”

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Congratulations to all our graduates! 🎓✨ Special congrats to doctoral graduates Kristin Gupta and Melanie Ford, and to Veronica Solis Mora on completing her Master's degree. We are proud of all our undergraduate & graduate students and excited to see what's next.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our amazing staff, Shawna Forney, for receiving the Staff Service Award! Come and celebrate at the @ricesocsci.bsky.social End of Year Faculty & Staff Reception on May 6, 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Kraft Hall 130. Light bites and beverages will be provided.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Learn about Ihsan's project here: acls.org/fellow-grant...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce that Ihsan Arsalan has been awarded a 2026Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. (@acls1919.bsky.social)

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New publication! Our assistant professor, Huatse Gyal, has published an article, "Politics of deflection, climate change, and contested narratives of land degradation in eastern Tibet," in EPE: Nature and Space. Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, on Thursday, April 23, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and Zoom. Click the link to register for the Zoom meeting: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

JOIN US and the Department of Religion & Program in STS for a Brown Bag Talk “From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction, Semiotic Skill, and the Authority of AI Chatbots” with Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor [...]

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “An Archaeology of Civil Rights in the 20th Century: The Visionary Pragmatism of Race Women” with Anna Agbe-Davies, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on Friday, April 17, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 & Zoom.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

JOIN US and the Program in Science and Technology Studies for a Brown Bag Talk “Disability Worlds in the Shadow of Ableism” with Faye Ginsburg, Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, on Friday, April 10, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and Zoom.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Our Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Ilana Gershon, co-authored with Amy J. Cohen "Living Under Contract: An LPE Analysis of American Democracy," published in The University of Chicago Law Review (Vol. 93, Issue 2). Read the article here: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Our class walked around the campus to understand the reading experientially, joined by Professor Howe's lovely puppy.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In our graduate course, "Anthropological Directions: from the Second World War to the Present," taught by Professor Cymene Howe, we had an outdoor class to discuss Tim Ingold's book chapter "To journey along a way of life: Maps, wayfinding and navigation."

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We had a fun and inspiring Ethnographic Design Co.Lab workshop with our professors, Cymene Howe and Vivian Lu, where we got hands-on crafting collages. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the EDC workshop.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Together with filmmaker Sara Dosa and UT Austin associate professor Craig Campbell, they explored how researchers and filmmakers can turn complex environmental change into stories that connect with audiences. Read the full article here: news.rice.edu/news/2026/cl...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our professors Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer joined the panel "Storytelling in a Time of Transition" at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On the same evening, we invite Tibetan filmmaker Khashem Gyal to screen his award-winning film Daughter of the Light at Rice Cinema. The screening will run from 6-8 pm, with a reception and light refreshments at 5:30 pm. Register via QR code.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

JOIN US for the last two Ethnographic Co.Lab workshops of the semester. The first event is a collage workshop co-led by our own Professor Vivian Lu and Cymene Howe. Register via QR code.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Our undergraduate student Max Scholl is featured in Rice News for building a space for critical thinking beyond the classroom. As co-founder of the Rice Critical Humanities Collective (RCHC), he brings students together across disciplines to engage questions of culture, politics, and knowledge.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This event was made possible with support from the Rice Department of Anthropology, the School of Social Sciences (@ricesocsci.bsky.social), the STS Program, and the Graduate Student Association.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The workshop offered graduate students hands-on editorial experience while strengthening their professionalization skills. We are deeply grateful to Professor Das Acevedo for sharing her expertise with Rice Anthropology graduate students.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This year, we organized a graduate editorial collective workshop to introduce the key editorial processes involved in academic publishing—from article submission to publication.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Yesterday, we hosted our annual Mutant Anthropologies workshop with Professor Deepa Das Acevedo, Editor-in-Chief of PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review).

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Published! Our graduate student, Quinn Georgic, published "Disrupting the Whitened Lemur: Reading Black Trans* Considerations in Feminist Primatology" in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (Vol. 12, No. 1). Read the full article: catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The book examines the emergence of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana, analyzing how such inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There will be a discussion of her new book with Dr. Nana Osei-Opare (History), Dr. Joseph Campana (English), and Dr. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Baker Institute). Copies of the book will be available.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

JOIN US in celebrating Associate Professor Gökçe Günel's new book, Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press, 2026), on April 27 at 12 pm at the Welcome Center.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Later that evening, we watched a selection of his short films, followed by a lively discussion with him. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the EDC workshop. Stay tuned for our next event!

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We had a wonderful Ethnographic Design CoLab workshop with filmmaker Kevin Everson, where we learned about the process and craft of filmmaking.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We are deeply grateful to Professor Stone for sharing her insights with Rice Anthropology graduate students.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

After reading her article, "Living the Laughscream: Human Technology and Affective Maneuvers in the Iraq War," students engaged in a lively discussion of her work. Professor Stone discussed her theoretical framework, fieldwork experiences, and reflections on writing as both anthropologist and poet.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In our graduate course, "Anthropological Directions: from the Second World War to the Present," taught by Professor Cymene Howe, we hosted anthropologist Nomi Stone (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas)

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Later that evening, a film by Everson will be screened from 5:30-7:30pm in Sewall 301, followed by a discussion with the director. Register via QR code.

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riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

JOIN US for the first Ethnographic Design Co.Lab workshop of the semester with filmmaker Kevin Everson: "Filmmaking and the Practice of Daily Life," Feb 27, 12-2pm, Sewall Hall 570. Everson is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Virginia.

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