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In Spring 2016 Anthropology Professor Krish Seetah partnered with the Stanford Libraries to develop an interactive, digital repository of 3D osteological objects to serve as the materials for his teaching.

The Department of Anthropology hosted their annual Undergraduate and Graduate Student Dinner on April 5th 2017.  Students were invited to meet with current Anthro Undergraduate and Graduate students, learn more about their personal interests…

Anthropology alumna Anna Ntiriwah-Asare was awarded the 2017 Gates Cambridge Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.  She is one of 36 American students to receive the prestigious scholarships this year.…

Anthropology professor Jim Ferguson was recently awarded the Elliott P. Skinner Book Award for his book Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, published by Duke University Press.  In Give a Man a Fish Ferguson…

Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Sabrina Papazian curated an exhibit that explores Leland Jr.’s affinity for collecting.  Titled “Collecting in Life and Death: The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.,” the exhibit features a mixture of…

A new Stanford study, conducted by Anthropology doctoral candidate Gene Richardson, MD, and his team of researchers, discovered Ebola infection does not always lead to severe disease and death — sometimes it may cause only mild symptoms or none…

Anthropology Associate Professor James A. Fox was recently awarded the 2016 Richard W. Lyman award in honor of his outstanding commitment and engagement with Stanford alumni over the past 45 years.  The award, established in 1983 in…

Professor Bill Durham, who is scheduled to retire September 2018, recently sat down with Stanford Daily to discuss his his 40-year teaching legacy.

Maron Greenleaf, the winner of the 2015 Rappaport Student Prize Competition, was recently interviewed by Amelia Moore, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Coastal Tourism and Recreation in the Department of Marine Affairs at University of Rhode…

Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia—long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness—are low in some…