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                                   Academic Report
                                        2020-2021

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CONTENTS
    Message from the Chair 					                 3

    Faculty News 							                         4

    Graduate News							 10

    Graduate Fieldwork 						 15

    Graduate Awards                             16

    Ph.D. Recipients 						                     17

    Lectures & Events 						 18

    Co-Sponsored Events 					                   19

    Senior Theses 							 20

    Undergraduate Awards 					 22

    Senior Certificate of Proficiency           24

    Faculty Publications and Awards				         25

    VizE Lab 								 26

    Centers and Programs 		                     28

    Alumni Publications 						                  29

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
September 2021

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Typically, this annual message reviews the
celebratory events of the past year as if the events
of the past herald more good things to come. So,
it is tough to encapsulate a year like none other;
a year we hope does not presage future events.
The pandemic lockdown made the familiar strange
and the strange familiar which meant most of the
world experienced what anthropologists do when
they go to the field. In the classroom, this opened
doors for us to push our students theoretically and
conceptually in ways that I never dreamed of. On the
other hand, Zoom fatigue was real. I missed being
able to read the expressiveness of bodies, the ironic Carolyn Rouse
winks and eyerolls. And there is simply no such thing
as comic timing in a Zoom meeting given protocols for muting and unmuting. Perhaps over time we could have
developed sophisticated cultural forms of communicating in virtual squares, but I am quite relieved that our
future will require all seven senses.

Despite being remote, there was still a lot to celebrate. Agustín Fuentes and Jerry Zee brought new energy
with their teaching and leadership during a difficult year. We also welcomed Aniruddhan Vasudevan, a Society
of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow, whose classes and public lectures were an inspiration to students and faculty. It
was also a pleasure to continue to work with lecturers Christina Tekie Collins, Mark Drury, and Postdoc Tiffany
(Cain) Fryer. Christina will start her new tenure-track position this year at Indiana University. Tiffany will join
the University of Michigan in fall 2022 as an assistant professor of anthropology and assistant curator in the
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.

Also, during the year, faculty, graduate students and undergraduates received numerous awards and honors.
All the honors are listed on our department homepage under news and in this report. These are extraordinary
and well-deserved honors. I hope our department continues to be a place that inspires people’s scholarly
passions and creativity.

Welcome and welcome back everyone! I truly look forward to the pleasure of your company.

Carolyn Rouse

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FACULTY NEWS
       João Biehl                                                     The other dialogue was with students from Belarus
            Biehl is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of                 (currently in exile in Lithuania) on the current uprisings
                Anthropology and Director of the Brazil               in the U.S. and the revolution in Belarus. He is also
                  LAB at the Princeton Institute for                  a member of the Board of Directors of the Society
                   International and Regional Studies.                for Ethnographic Theory, which publishes both a
                      While on sabbatical for academic                Hau book series and journal and Hau: Journal of
                   year 2020-2021, Biehl’s co-written                 Ethnographic Theory, both with the University of
                 book On Listening as a Form of Care                  Chicago Press. He published several journal articles in
                was published in fall 2020. Biehl co-wrote            Hau: “World Peace in the Cold War: Anthropological
           the book Escritos Perdidos: Vida e Obra de                 Contributions,” and “Ethics, Morality, and Moralizing
um Imigrante Insurgente (Lost Writings: Life and Work                 in Anthropological Research.” Some of his current
of a Seditious Immigrant), which will be published in                 research, a longitudinal study of the incorporation of
Portuguese and German. He also co-edited the book                     Syrian refugees in Germany, has now begun to appear
Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds                  in publications. Among these articles were: “Der
on Edge and oversaw the translation of his book Vita:                 deutsche Wohlfahrtsstaat als haltende Umgebung
Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment into Portuguese.                 für Geflüchtete. Eine Fallstudie zur Eingliederung,”
Biehl published articles on the judicialization of the                Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften; and “Witnessing,
COVID-19 pandemic in Health and Human Rights,                         Containing, Holding? The German social welfare state
on magical legalism and medical capitalism in                         (Sozialstaat) and people in flight.” He also co-authored
Osiris, on decolonizing global health in Horizontes                   an edited book with Kelly McKowen *19, Digesting
Antropológicos, and on ethnographic creation in Mana.                 Difference: Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging
   At the Brazil LAB, Biehl co-produced the sonic library             in Europe.
Clarice 100 Ears and helped to establish a partnership
with Nexo (Brazil’s premier digital media outlet) to
publicize Princeton scholars’ public policy work.                     Elizabeth Davis
Biehl is also leading a partnership with the Graduate                     In 2020-2021, Davis completed her second book,
Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional                  Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing,
and is co-producing the digital platform Freedoms/                    which addresses public secrecy and evidence-making
Liberdades: Storying Images of Slavery and Post-                      in Cyprus, focusing on forensic investigations of
Abolition in Brazil.                                                  missing persons and visual-documentary archives;
   Biehl is co-editor of the series Critical Global Health            it is expected to be published in fall 2022 from Duke
at Duke University Press and serves on the editorial                  University Press. She continued drafting an additional
board of Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology                  book manuscript, The Time of the Cannibals: On
Quarterly, Anthropological Quarterly, Common                          Conspiracy and Context, on so-called conspiracy
Knowledge, and Revista de Antropologia. He is an                      theories and presidential power in Cyprus, the United
adviser to the Brazilian Institute for Health Policy Studies          States, and other locales. The COVID-19 pandemic
(IEPS) and a consultant for the Amazônia 2030 initiative.             deferred work on her documentary film, These Sacred
                                                                      Bones, about the public life of human remains and
       John Borneman                                                  their entanglement of religion and politics in Cyprus,
             During 2020-2021, Borneman served as                     as well as ongoing ethnographic research on orthodox
                Director of the Certificate Program in                and heterodox burial practices in Greece. At Princeton,
                 Ethnographic Studies, and Director                   Davis taught in the first-year graduate pro-seminar
                 of the Program in Contemporary                       sequence, as well as an undergraduate lecture course
                 European Politics and Society (EPS),                 “Psychological Anthropology” and a Freshman Seminar
                under the auspices of PIIRS. As EPS                   on “Conspiracy Theory in Context.” She continued to
               Director, he organized two dialogues                   serve as a Faculty Fellow in the Society of Fellows in
            with Princeton undergraduates, one with                   the Liberal Arts, a member of the Executive Committee
students from Sciences Po on the future of global                     of the IHUM Program (Interdisciplinary Doctoral
education, changes induced by the pandemic, and                       Program in the Humanities), and a member of the
misinformation campaigns and online learning.                         Institutional Review Board (IRB).

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          Julia Elyachar                                           News, and others, and appeared on a number of
                In 2020-2021, Elyachar completed                   podcasts, videos and radio shows (such as NPR’s On
                   writing Commoners on Unsettled                  Being and AAAS-DoSER Humans and Race video series).
                    Ground, with revisions to be
                     completed summer 2021. A revised                       Jeffrey Himpele
                     and updated edition of her first                              Himpele spent the year adapting his
                    sole-authored prize-winning book,                                teaching methods to online media
                  Markets of Dispossession: NGOs,                                      and developing new techniques for
               Economic Development, and the State in                                  doing humanistic ethnography at a
Cairo (Duke UP), was translated by the National Center                                 distance. He invited several students
                                                                                       from his spring 2020 Visible Evidence
for Translation and Publication in Egypt and is in
                                                                                      course to join a “Virtual VizE Lab.”
production for the fall. Her co-edited volume, Thinking                             Working from their disparate locations,
Infrastructures, was published in the Research in the                          they developed a website on “Remote
Sociology of Organizations (imprint 2019) by Emerald               Ethnography” that hosts tutorials for using Zoom and
Press. Elyachar published articles and was interviewed             digital tools to make rich documentaries and interactive
about her research in various scholarly and public                 data visualizations. The work was funded by the Dean
facing venues. At Princeton, she was appointed a                   of the Faculty and the Humanities Council. Himpele
Faculty Fellow at the Society of Fellows, a member of              then shared these techniques in a Zoom workshop for
the Executive Board of the Center for Iran and Persian             students in Jeremy Adelman’s online course “Global
Gulf Studies, and continues to serve as a member                   History Dialogues,” which trains students enrolled
of the Executive Board of the Princeton Institute                  from universities around the world to create their
for International and Regional Studies. Outside of                 own “histories of the present.” Himpele was awarded
                                                                   a summer 250th Fund grant to revise “Anthropology
Princeton, Elyachar became a member of the editorial
                                                                   of Media” for last fall. His revision widened its scope
collective of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa,           with readings on datafication, and it adopted web-
and the Middle East and a co-editor in the editorial               based creative and collaboration tools to intensify the
collective of the journal Cultural Anthropology.                   learning experience in the online context. Based on
                                                                   positive feedback, Himpele used these techniques in
                                                                   “Transcultural Cinema” this spring, and he plans to
          Agustín Fuentes                                          incorporate them in on-campus classes.
             Academic year 2020-2021 was Fuentes’
                                                                      As director of the VizE Lab, Himpele expanded
                 first year at Princeton. He taught
                                                                   collaborations with faculty colleagues. With
                   “Introduction to Anthropology,”                 Frederick Wherry, Director of the Dignity + Debt
                    “Human Evolution” and “Myth-                   Network, they held a data visualization contest on
                    Busting Race and Sex,” advised four            the student loan crisis, published a set of tools for
                    senior theses and settled into life            creating data visualizations in the style of W.E.B.
                   in the Department of Anthropology.              Dubois, and launched The Debt Collection Lab, a
                Fuentes continued projects on human                website that tracks racial and social disparities in
           evolution, multispecies ecologies, race/                debt collection lawsuits. Himpele collaborated on
racism and began a new project on information                      the NJ Families Study with Thomas Espenshade as
ecologies and public health in the COVID-19 landscape.             co-PI on their second grant from Princeton’s Data-
Publications from these projects appeared in a range               Driven Social Sciences Initiative. They are building
of journals, including Evolutionary Anthropology,                  an online ethnographic video repository for studying
Current Anthropology, PLoS ONE, Acta Ethologica,                   the influence of domestic parent-child interactions
Behaviour, American Journal of Physical Anthropology,              on childhood education. Himpele’s edited film The
and Primate Conservation, and as chapters in multiple              Torture Letters, produced by Laurence Ralph, debuted
edited volumes. Fuentes gave numerous (virtual)                    with the The New York Times Op-Docs series and
invited lectures and participated in events around                 was selected for several international film festivals
the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “Descent of Man,”                and awards, including “Best in Show” at the Spark
publishing a critical book chapter and an editorial in             Animated Film Festival. Finally, Himpele is fund-raising
the journal Science. He also wrote essays/blogs for El             for license fees and advanced post-production for
País, SAPIENS, Discovery, Shuddhashar, Anthropology                his own feature-length musical documentary Men of
                                                                   Steel.
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FACULTY NEWS
       Rena Lederman                                                a group of Native American students at Princeton,
              In spring 2021, Lederman taught “Field                entitled “Nuclear Princeton” (nuclearprinceton.
                Research Practicum” (ANT505). Although              princeton.edu). The project highlights the under-
                  she had taught versions of the course             acknowledged impacts of nuclear science, technology,
                  before, during this first (we hope                and engineering on Native lands, communities, and
                  only) wholly-remote year, it needed a             beyond. Nuclear Princeton has been supported by
                 serious rethink. Consequently, Lederman            Princeton Program on Science and Global Security,
               spent part of summer 2020 attending                  High Meadows Environmental Institute, among others.
           Zoomed meetings where anthropologists                    Based on the project, Morimoto will teach a freshman
and others reimagined fieldwork and various decolonial              seminar in spring 2022.
anthropologies. She found these discussions uneven but
frequently electrifying (in all senses of the term).                      Serguei Oushakine
   Pulling these threads together, Lederman urged                                    During the last academic year,
participants to use fieldwork (broadly construed) to                                    Oushakine continued his research on
develop courses that might challenge and inspire                                         media practices in the early Soviet
their students—in that way contributing to what                                           Union. Relying on newly available
anthropology is becoming. They ended the term with                                        archival materials and periodicals
well-developed first drafts of course plans that could                                   from the 1920s-1930s, in December
be included in post-dissertation job applications.                                     2020, Oushakine published in Russian
Under present constraints, developing their courses                                 his new book A Medium for the Masses:
“ethnographically” meant, for example, seeking out                  On Photomontage and the Optical Turn in Early Soviet
folks with more/different experience teaching and                   Russia. The book was published by Garage, the
taking courses similar to theirs, and comparing stories of          major Russian gallery of contemporary arts. In May
what worked, what didn’t, and why.                                  2021, the book was short-listed for the Russian state
   Being Director of Graduate Studies during this fully             award “Innovation” in the field of cultural studies and
virtual academic year was less challenging than it might            visual arts; the award is one of the most important
have been had our staff, students, and faculty (especially          annual book prizes administered by the Pushkin
our newest department members) not been as intrepid                 Art Museum (Moscow). In June 2021, The Russian
and creative as they were. Still, our graduate students             Review published a special collection of essays on
were profoundly impacted by Covid-related travel                    Transmedial Books for Children, edited by Oushakine.
restrictions. With logistical help from the Grad School,            Looking at early soviet books, the collection offers
Lederman helped enable a temporary reallocation of                  a new approach to understanding the formation
funding to ensure that students whose dissertation                  of early soviet visual culture and its consumers.
work was disrupted during these several years would                 Finally, in July 2021, the University of Toronto Press
have a sixth year of fellowship funding.                            issued the volume The Pedagogy
                                                                    of Images: Depicting
       Ryo Morimoto                                                 Communism for Children,
              During 2020-2021, Morimoto spent his                  co-edited by Oushakine
                sabbatical year at the Institute for                with Marina Balina.
                 Advanced Study, where he worked on                 Based on the extensive
                 his book manuscript, “Nuclear Ghost:               collection of early soviet
                 Atomic Livelihoods at Fukushima’s                  books for children, the
                 Gray Zone.” Morimoto contributed a                 volume includes sixteen
               commentary on the tenth anniversary                  contributions that offer
            of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster to the                  new approaches and
Critical Asian Studies (https://doi.org/10.52698/                   conceptual frameworks
ASPR7364). His recent research on radioactive wild                  for studying communism
boars in coastal Fukushima will be published later this             and visual regimes in the
year in an anthropology journal. In summer 2021,                    Soviet Union.
Morimoto launched an undergraduate project with
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FACULTY NEWS
          Laurence Ralph                                             and empowerment for practitioners. Coyle Rosen also
              In 2020-2021, Ralph’s first book, Renegade             conducted substantial research for another book, an
                  Dreams, received the J.I. Staley                   ethnography of the musical creativity, spirituality, life
                   Prize from the School for Advanced                philosophy, and transformative social justice work of
                    Research. Ralph’s most recent                    Hannibal Lokumbe, a pathbreaking composer, jazz
                    book, The Torture Letters, won the               musician, and artist.
                   Robert Textor Prize for Excellence
                 in Anticipatory Anthropology. Ralph’s                            Carolyn M. Rouse
              animated short, The Torture Letters, was                                 Rouse spent the year trying to conquer
an official selection at many national and international                                 remote teaching. It’s not clear if she
film festivals and was long-listed for an Academy                                         succeeded. She also published the
Award. Ralph won a John Simon Guggenheim                                                  article, “Necropolitics vs. Biopolitics:
Fellowship, a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities                                      Spatialization, White Privilege,
Center, and membership at the Center for Advanced                                       and Visibility During a Pandemic,”
Study in the Behavioral Sciences. At Princeton, Ralph                                in Cultural Anthropology, and a book
taught two undergraduate courses and a graduate                                chapter entitled, “Race and Existential Debt:
course in the School of Public and International Affairs.            How Race Complicates an Anthropologist’s Sense
He also served as the co-director of the Center on                   of the Rules of Reciprocity,” in a volume analyzing
Transnational Policing, the co-chair of the University’s             attempts to give back to our interlocutors in the field.
Public Safety Advisory Committee, a member of the                    Finally, Rouse was honored to be named the inaugural
Executive Committee for the Humanities Council,                      Ritter Chair of Anthropology.
and was elected to the Council of the Princeton
University Community. Outside of Princeton, Ralph                           Jerry Zee
is a member of the Advisory Council for the Wenner                                  In his first year at Princeton, Zee taught
Gren Foundation and the Editor-in-Chief of Current                                     three courses: a departmental core
Anthropology.                                                                            course, “Ethnography, Evidence,
                                                                                         and Experience”; and two new
          Lauren Coyle Rosen                                                             undergraduate courses: “Culture
                While on sabbatical for academic year                                    and Power in China”; and “The
                  2020-2021, Coyle Rosen worked on                                      Body in Rain: Embodiment and
                    two projects and related essays.                                  Planetary Change” in the ENV
                    She worked on completing a draft                             program. His chapter on toxic fogs was
                    manuscript of her second book,                   published as a contribution to the open access art/
                   Law in Light: Vision, Truth, and the              scholarship project Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human
                 Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in              Anthropocene, and his chapter “Downwind” was
             the U.S. (in preparation for University of              published in the edited volume Voluminous States
California Press). Law in Light is an ethnography of                 (Duke University Press 2020). Zee’s monograph,
the experiential and philosophical dimensions of the                 Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather
recent revival and expansion of Akan path priests and                System, has been accepted for publication in winter
priestesses in the U.S., who often train and initiate in             2022 by the University of California Press.
Ghana, home to the sacred path. Among other things,
this work argues for two key theoretical notions:
in-seeing and constellations of subjectivity. These
theorizations help us to apprehend the interweaving
and co-creating fields of deities, ancestors, living
persons, and other vital forces, as well as their multiple
epistemologies, spatialities, and temporalities. These
intricate spiritual practices – often misconstrued in
popular consciousness and, at times, in academic
discourse – are central domains for healing, justice,
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ASSOCIATED FACULTY                                                DEPARTMENT LECTURERS
       Amy Borovoy (East Asian Studies)                                  Christina Collins
              Borovoy has been completing a book                               In addition to advising junior independent
                  manuscript exploring five canonical                             work and again offering “Business
                   works in Japan anthropology and                                 Anthropology” and “Intoxicating
                   the work these texts did to offer                                Cultures: Alcohol in Everyday Life,”
                   American readers a language for                                  Collins added “Reading Ethnography:
                  thinking about the social (social                                Anthropological Approaches to the
                 control, social community, social                                Continent,” a new course cross-listed
             solidarity) in the latter part of the                             with the Program in African Studies, to her
20th century. The book explores Japan as a “living                teaching at Princeton. In August 2021, Collins joined
laboratory” a moment in which the ideal of social                 Indiana University Bloomington as Assistant Professor
solidarity and social meaning was fraught, associated             in Anthropology.
with authoritarianism and collectivism in the context
of the postwar and Cold War. The study draws on
archival work, close readings, and intellectual history.
                                                                           Mark Drury
                                                                                In 2020-2021, Drury, together with fellow
   Borovoy presented Chapter 1, “In the Name of                                    concerned scholars, sent a letter to
a Supreme Value: Ruth Benedict’s Challenge to                                       President Biden and organized a
Fanaticism during Total War” at the Japan Forum for                                  petition urging the US to rescind
Innovation and Technology, U.C. San Diego, School of                                 recognition of Moroccan sovereignty
Global Policy and Strategy summer 2020. An essay                                    over the disputed territory of Western
on Chapter 3, Robert Bellah’s communitarianism,                                   Sahara. He also published an essay
“Dialogues between Area Studies and Social                                     concerning developments in the Western
Thought: Robert Bellah’s Engagement with Japan,”                  Sahara conflict with Middle East Report online. In
was published as the lead chapter in The Anthem                   spring 2021, Drury became a member of the Conseil
Companion to Robert N. Bellah, edited by Matteo                   Scientifique for the International Academic Observatory
Bortolini.                                                        on Western Sahara (OUISO). He made a number of
   Borovoy has continued her work in medical                      public presentations during the year, including at a
anthropology, conducting field work at a large public             “Comparative Deserts” conference hosted by Williams
hospital east of Tokyo. Her work focuses on super-                College. He reviewed recent publications on the
aging and the ethics of renal replacement and organ               Maghreb for American Anthropologist and H-France. At
donation in Japan. She’s working on an essay which                Princeton, Drury gave a Works-in-Progress talk at the
reviews the Japanese opposition to the brain death                anthropology department, taught two undergraduate
category to accompany a forthcoming posthumous                    courses, advised a cohort of undergraduate majors in
volume by the late Buddhist scholar William LaFleur, of           the development of their Junior Papers, and advised
the University of Pennsylvania.                                   students completing the Ethnographic Studies
   During the pandemic, she became interested in                  Certificate.
how COVID-19 was contained in Japan, and presented
reflections on public health messaging, contact tracing,
and peer pressure at a Harvard University panel,
                                                                          Tiffany C. (Cain) Fryer
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Weatherhead Center
                                                                                During her second year as a lecturer in
for International Affairs, “Public Health and Wellness in
                                                                                  Anthropology, Fryer (previously Cain)
the COVID-19 Era: Japan in Global Context,” together
                                                                                    taught two undergraduate courses: an
with Karen Thornber (medical humanities) and Andrew
                                                                                    upper-level seminar, “Race, Gender,
Gordon (history).
                                                                                    Empire,” and her introductory course,
                                                                                   “Native American & Indigenous
                                                                                 Studies.” Fryer continued publishing and
                                                                              presenting her work on political violence,

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colonialism, and memory in southeastern Mexico                     six events offered remotely to the broader community
while working on the draft of her book manuscript,                 in the academic year of 2020-2021. Griner is currently
tentatively titled Things of War: Conflict & Heritage on           investigating the work of neuroscience on affects and
Mexico’s Maya Frontier. Next year, she will complete               the impacts of neuroscientific theories on diagnostic
her fellowship with the Princeton Society of Fellows               categories, as well as on philosophical thought. She
before moving into her new position as Assistant                   recently had an article accepted in the Brazilian journal
Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator in                 Sociologia & Antropologia; collaborated with referee
the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the                   reports to international journals of anthropology and
University of Michigan, in fall 2022.                              bioethics; and is currently working on two articles and a
                                                                   book chapter.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
                                                                    EMERITUS FACULTY
          Aniruddhan Vasudevan
              Vasudevan completed his first year as                       Carol J. Greenhouse
                  a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the                            Greenhouse continues her work
                   Society of Fellows and Lecturer in                               in the anthropology of law, with
                   Anthropology (2020-2023). He taught                                contributions to Sandra Brunnegger’s
                   two new courses, “Queer Becomings”                                  edited collection, Everyday
                  and “Religion, Ethics, Social Life”                                  Justice (Cambridge UP), Oxford
                in the 2020-2021 academic year. His                                   Bibliography of Anthropology (on
            talk for Princeton GSS’ Works-in-Progress                                legal pluralism), and the Oxford
series in February 2021 was on language use among                                  Handbook of Law and Anthropology (on
the thirunangai trans community in Chennai, India.                           “social control”, forthcoming), among others.
In April 2021, he gave an invited talk on translation              She served on several external review panels for
and ethics for Tamil Studies at the University of                  anthropology departments in the U.S. and abroad
Toronto. In May 2021, Vasudevan co-organized a                     this year, and joined the American Council of Learned
panel on the ethics and politics of religious identity             Societies executive committee of the delegates as a
                                                                   representative of the American Philosophical Society.
at the annual conference (May 2021) of the Society
of the Anthropology of Religion, where he also spoke
at a roundtable on wonder, ethics, and politics. He
has contributed an invited chapter to a forthcoming                        Abdellah Hammoudi
anthology on Wonder in South Asia, to be published                              Hammoudi completed a book manuscript
                                                                                   in Arabic: Before Modernit: Arabs
by SUNY Press in 2022. Three of his book translation
                                                                                    writing about non-Arabs (in Arabic)
projects (Tamil fiction in English) will be published in                             due out in fall 2020. His article “Arab
2022-2023 in India and the U.S.                                                      Anthropology: Importation and
                                                                                    Appropriation,” appeared in Hesperis,
                                                                                   Special Issue, Rabat 2020. His article,
           Arbel Griner (Global Health Program)                                 “Decolonizing anthropology at a distance:
              In fall 2020, Griner co-taught “Critical             some thoughts,” is scheduled to appear in HAU: Journal
                 Perspectives in Global Health” and, in            of Ethnographic Theory, Vol 11, Number 1.
                  the spring, she offered “Pandemics:
                  Critical Perspectives on Emergence,
                  Governance and Care,” an
                  Anthropology and Global Health cross-
               listed course. She participated in the
           design and teaching of the second edition
of the qualitative methods workshop for Princeton
students organizing their summer research; facilitated
the Global Health Summer Book Club; and organized
the Global Health Colloquium Series, with a total of
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GRADUATE NEWS
       Mai Alkhamissi                                                     Ipsita Dey
             Alkhamissi served in academic year 2020-                               During the summer 2020, Dey worked
                2021 as an Assistant Instructor (AI) for                               as a Graduate Research Assistant
                 both “Introduction to Anthropology”                                    in the Visual Ethnography Lab and
                  and “Native American and                                               helped to create a web resource
                  Indigenous Studies” with Professor                                    for students/scholars attempting to
                 Agustín Fuentes and Professor                                          produce documentaries or “remote
                Tiffany (Cain) Fryer, respectively. She                               ethnographies” during the COVID-19
              worked as a peer coach at the McGraw
                                                                                  pandemic. Dey was also awarded a
          Center for Teaching and Learning mentoring
                                                                    summer 2020 Humanities Council Magic Grant to
to both graduate and undergraduate students, mostly
thesis work with juniors and seniors. In the spring, she            conduct collaborative research (with Vineet Chander,
joined the Teaching Tools committee at the Society for              Assistant Dean of Religious Life) on yoga philosophy
Cultural Anthropology. She now lives in Washington,                 and pedagogy in Hindu bhakti traditions. In the 2020-
D.C. conducting dissertation fieldwork with the                     2021 school year, Dey passed her generals exams,
Egyptian diaspora.                                                  completed her Graduate Certificate in Environmental
                                                                    Studies, and hosted a graduate reading group on the
       Hannah Bradley                                               topic of “Diaspora Studies” via the Interdisciplinary
               In summer 2020, Bradley completed                    Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM). Dey looks
                 her fieldwork in Kachemal Bay,                     forward to conducting fieldwork in Fiji, where she will
                  near her hometown of Homer,                       explore how Indo-Fijian sugarcane farmers are building
                   Alaska. Her fieldwork focused on                 a spiritual relationship with the landscape and using this
                   local relationships to landscape,                “eco-sacred” identity to claim forms of Fijian nativity.
                  temporality, and ecological change.
                After the birth of her son, River, she                    Elizabeth Durham
             has turned to writing her dissertation. She                          Durham spent the year writing her
presented aspects of her work on Alaskan agriculture                                 dissertation, precepting two
at the SEA joint conference, “Landscapes of Value,                                    department courses, “Introduction
Economies of Place” in Spring 2021. She also guest-                                    to Anthropology” in the fall and
curated a small exhibit of landscape art at the Pratt                                  “Race and Medicine” in the spring,
Museum entitled “Community with a View.” Bradley                                      and teaching workshops with
was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for                                 the Princeton Writes program.
spring 2022.                                                                       Additionally, she co-edited a
                                                                              Somatosphere special series on transnational
       Max Cohen                                                    medical anthropology, presented at the 2021
              In 2020, Cohen secured approval of                    Society for Psychological Anthropology meeting,
                 his dissertation proposal and his                  has forthcoming work on Ohio’s vaccine lottery
                  IRB application and moved to the                  in Anthropology News, and is currently revising
                   San Francisco Bay Area for his                   and resubmitting an article manuscript from her
                   dissertation research. His tentative             dissertation for publication. In 2021-2022, she will
                  dissertation title will be “Engineering           continue as a Fellow at Princeton’s University Center
                 Value: Automation & Speculation                    for Human Values.
              among Silicon Valley Technology
Startups & Venture Capitalists.” Over the course of
this academic year, Cohen applied for research grants
                                                                          Brandon Hunter-Pazzara
and conducted research, creatively adapting it to                                 For the 2020-2021 academic year,
the formidable obstacles imposed by the pandemic.                                   Hunter-Pazzara had several
Online and, where possible, in person, Cohen                                          noteworthy accomplishments.
conducted interviews, media analysis, and fieldwork                                   First, he served as a preceptor for
chiefly among venture capitalists, entrepreneurs,                                     Professor Julia Elyachar in fall 2020
technologists, and associated actors in the technology                               as well as Professor Laurence Ralph
startup world and adjacent to it. He will be continuing                             in spring 2021. During the academic
this research in the 2021-2022 academic year.                                     year, Hunter-Pazzara completed visiting
                                                                    fellowships at both the Center for US-Mexican Studies
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at the University of California, San Diego, and at                    Specifically, the article explores how these two
the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies                      aesthetic traditions converge in white supremacist
at American University. Hunter-Pazzara published                      fantasies of organic and inorganic materiality.
several pieces this year including an online article on               During the spring semester, Johnson worked with
the effects of COVID-19 in the tourism sector with                    Professor Elizabeth Davis as an Assistant Instructor
Exertions, the Society for the Anthropology of Work                   (AI) for “Psychological Anthropology.” Johnson also
online platform, and two book chapters that are part                  published a peer-reviewed article in Symplokē, an
of two edited volumes that will be published later in                 interdisciplinary journal of literary and cultural theory.
2021. At the end of the academic year, Hunter-Pazzara                 The article is entitled “Racial Reverb: ‘Paranoia within
was awarded the Charlotte Procter Prize by Princeton’s                Reason’ and the Sounding of the Social,” and will
Graduate School.                                                      appear in a special issue on “Paranoid Politics” in
                                                                      the fall 2021. Next year, Luke will begin his fieldwork
          Hazal Hürman                                                on interracial desire in Paris, France, funded by the
              During the 2020-2021 academic                           Georges Lurcy Fellowship.
                 year, Hürman completed her
                  coursework and worked on her                               Kamal Kariem
                   general examinations on “(de)                                     During the 2020-2021 academic year,
                   colonization in Turkey’s Kurdistan”                                  Kariem conducted dissertation
                  and “anthropology of childhood.” In                                    research in Primorskii Krai, Russian
                 the fall, she was an Assistant Instructor                               Federation with funding from the
              (AI) for Professor Agustín Fuentes’s                                       Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker
“Introduction to Anthropology” course. Due to the                                        Dissertation Fellowship Program for
COVID-19 pandemic, she spent the academic year in                                      Russian Historical Studies. He attended
Istanbul where she was able to pursue preliminary                                  one conference at the Institute of History,
research for her future dissertation project. Her article             Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the
“Penalisation of Kurdish children under the Turkish                   Far East. He co-authored an article in Russian for The
Anti-Terror Law: Abandonment, sovereignty and                         Herald of Vladivostok State University of Economics
lawfare” was published in Kurdish Studies in October                  and Service, titled Mechanisms of sociocultural
2020. Building on the research she conducted for                      development of the indigenous population of Russian
her master’s thesis, the article explores the ways                    Far East, The Territory of New Opportunities, Danilova
in which the disproportionate criminalization of                      O.N., Kariem Kamal Abdul, 2021, Vol. 13, № 1, pp.
Kurdish children on charges of terrorism alters their                 221–231.
daily experiences and political imagination of the
Turkish state’s sovereignty. Hürman’s review of Salih
Can Açıksöz’s book Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity,                           Navjit Kaur
Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey was also                                In the fall 2020, Kaur successfully
published towards the end of the academic year in                                       finished her qualifying exams and was
New Perspectives on Turkey. Hürman continues to take                                     awarded a Masters in Anthropology
Kurdish language courses in preparation for her future                                   at Princeton. She was an Assistant
field research.                                                                          Instructor (AI) for the course
                                                                                         “Introduction to Anthropology”
          Luke Johnson                                                                 taught by Professor Agustín Fuentes.
              This year Johnson took an                                           In spring 2021, Kaur defended her pre-
                interdisciplinary detour as an IHUM                   dissertation fieldwork proposal. She presented her
                  fellow (Interdisciplinary Doctoral                  research work at the South Asia Graduate Students’
                   Program in the Humanities).                        Workshop. Beginning fall 2021, she will begin her
                   Working closely with faculty in the                fieldwork research in Malerkotla, Punjab, India.
                  Classics Department, he did research
                 for an article on the relationship
              between philhellenism and primitivism.

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      Karolina Koziol                                                     Nikhil Pandhi
              Koziol spent the academic year working                              During 2020-2021, Pandhi completed
                 on her dissertation under the                                       his comprehensive general exams
                  preliminary title “Alienation and                                   and returned to India to commence
                   ‘Foreignization’: Encounters in                                    fieldwork amid the COVID-19
                   Russian-Chinese Borderlands.”                                      pandemic. Based in New Delhi since
                  In spring semester, Koziol served as a                              September 2020, Pandhi has been
                preceptor for three sections of ANT 272                             building institutional and ethnographic
             “Intoxicating Cultures: Alcohol in Everyday                        links with a wide range of collaborators
Life,” taught by Professor Christina T. Collins. She               and interlocutors in India’s public health landscape.
also wrote a book review to be published soon and                  His research on decolonizing public health, casteism
volunteered as a mentor for incoming and first-year                and caste-based health disparities in India engages a
graduate students.                                                 series of actors and agents in India’s trammeled health
                                                                   landscape, including hospitals, doctors, paramedical
      Caitlin Morley                                               workers, health activists, community health workers,
              Morley spent her second year in the                  epidemiologists, health journalists and patients/
                 department progressing toward                     people themselves. Aside from recovering from
                  completion of her coursework                     COVID-19 and performing caregiving responsibilities
                   and her qualifying exams, as well               for his extended family, Pandhi also engaged with
                   as preparing for her dissertation               his interlocutors in diverse modes from the virtual
                  research on forced disappearance                 to the ethnographic. India and New Delhi fell prey
                and humanitarian forensic intervention             to a unprecedentedly devastating ‘second wave’
             in Mexico. The latter included her study              of COVID-19 in the summer 2021 which caused
at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State                 widespread deaths, a new national lockdown, collapse
University in January 2021, where she participated                 of health systems and an ‘oxygen crisis’ in Delhi’s
in an intensive course on Human Remains Recovery.                  hospitals. Pandhi wrote a series of ethnographically
In spring 2021, Morley was admitted to the                         inspired op-eds and articles on structurally overhauling
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities               India’s public health systems for leading Indian
(IHUM) at Princeton. As an IHUM fellow, she will                   newspapers and media outlets like Hindustan Times,
pursue a research project parallel to her dissertation,            Scroll.in and The Wire. Pandhi hopes to continue
concerning the ongoing forensic investigation                      his fieldwork, research and writing as the pandemic
and public controversy surrounding a mass grave                    unfurls even during the coming year.
discovered behind a former Mother and Baby Home
in Ireland. By shifting the anthropological gaze to                       Sofia Pinedo-Padoch
literature and theology, in which death finds alternate                         Pinedo-Padoch spent the 2020-
expression, she aims to examine the ways in which                                  2021 academic year writing her
the mass grave constitutes both an architecture                                      dissertation, “Life After Death in
of concealment and an episteme. Morley’s                                             New York City: An Ethnography of
interdisciplinary interests have also led to her present                             Public Administration.” Her writing
collaboration on a technical guide to the care and                                   was supported by the Charlotte W.
conservation of the textile remains of mass atrocity.                              Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation
Extending from the work of a textile conservator who                             Fellowship. In August 2021, she served
has spent the past two decades pioneering methods                  on the faculty of the Language and Thinking Program
for the curation of textiles at the Nyamata Genocide               at Bard College.
Memorial Centre in Rwanda and the Tuol Sleng
Genocide Museum in Cambodia, it seeks to enable
others to care for the clothing of genocide victims.

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          Lucas Prates                                              University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Southeast Asian
              During 2020-2021, Prates finished                     Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI). At SEASSI, Sadighi
                coursework while developing his                     continued studying Vietnamese to prepare for his
                  general exams on Legal and Political              future research in southern Vietnam on aging, mental
                  Anthropology, and Anthropologies of               health, late socialism, legacies of the Cold War, and the
                  the Global South. Alongside Professor             aftermath of war. Due to the pandemic, Sadighi was
                 João Biehl, Prates also investigated               unable to conduct preliminary fieldwork in Vietnam
                the judicialization of COVID-19 in                  but hopes to begin during 2021-2022 winter break.
             Brazil, a project funded by the Center
for Health and Wellbeing (SPIA). The main findings                         Jagat Sohail
of this research will be published soon in the Health                              Since spring 2019, Sohail has spent time
and Human Rights Journal. Prates has also been a                                      in Berlin, where he is conducting
research assistant in the Brazil LAB, working together                                 ethnographic research on refugee
with the digital media outlet Nexo in an initiative that                                life in Berlin. During the past year,
circulates the research of Princeton scholars and Brazil                                he wrote and published a review
LAB’s institutional partners. In Spring 2021, Prates was                               essay on the politics of victim-hood,
admitted into the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program                                 along with completing a forthcoming
in the Humanities (IHUM). As an IHUM fellow, he will                              book chapter, based on his fieldwork,
study the overlap between indigenous cosmologies,                   in an edited volume about foreigner incorporation in
environmental justice, and storytelling. His project will           Europe. Sohail continued his ethnographic fieldwork in
trace how Amerindian thought is being re-signified                  Berlin through spring 2021.
through insurgent legal and artistic practices.
                                                                           Alisa Sopova
          EB Saldaña                                                               Sopova spent 2020-2021 academic
              In 2020, Saldaña completed a working                                    year completing her first-year
                outline of her dissertation and a draft                                coursework. In addition, she wrote
                  of Chapter one. She published an                                     a photo essay for the Digital
                  article in the October 2020 issue                                    Icons journal titled “Visuals and
                  of Neos, the flagship journal of                                     the Invisible in the ‘Forgotten’
                  the Anthropology of Children and                                    War in Ukraine: Combating Clichés
                Youth Interest Group. She wrote a                                  of War Photography through Social
              collaborative blog post for the Louisville            Media.” Over the winter break, she was reporting as
Family Justice Advocates, an advocacy organization                  a journalist on the consequences of the COVID-19
for children and families based in Louisville, and was
                                                                    pandemic in the war zone in eastern Ukraine. This
featured on an episode of Anthropod, the podcast
for the Society for Cultural Anthropology. She was a                work resulted in a long-form reportage in The New
recipient of the Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences            Humanitarian magazine. In summer 2021, Sopova
for the 2020-2021 academic year and will continue as a              spent time in her home country of Ukraine where she
second-year Fellow in 2021-2022 academic year.                      conducted research for her dissertation project.

          Darius Sadighi                                                   Aaron Su
              For 2020-2021 academic year, Sadighi                                  In his second year, Su continued
                 was granted the University Center for                                 working on his coursework and
                  Human Values fellowship and spent                                     general examinations. In the
                   his first year completing coursework                                 meantime, he delineated the
                   and working on Vietnamese and                                        contours of his ethnographic
                  French language training. Sadighi also                               project in China, and was also able
                received funding from the Princeton                                  to present his previous research
             Institute for International and Regional                           virtually at the Association for Asian
Studies (PIIRS) to study Vietnamese (remotely) at the               Studies, the Society for Psychological Anthropology,
                                                                    and the Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing

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Symposium. During summer 2021, with language                                Ayluonne Tereszkiewicz
funding from PIIRS and an American Ethnological                                        In 2020-2021, Tereszkiewicz completed
Society Small Grant, Aaron acquired one-on-one,                                           her first-year requirements and
specialist training in advanced Chinese related to                                         took courses at the School of
science, medicine, and technology, and conducted                                           Architecture, School of Public
a bit of preliminary research in accordance with                                           and International Affairs, and
constraints. Writing based on Su’s previous research                                      Department of Comparative
was accepted at Visual Anthropology Review.                                             Literature. During Wintersession,
                                                                                    Tereszkiewicz enrolled in an archival
       Junbin Tan                                                     research workshop in preparation for her summer
                   Tan started dissertation fieldwork in              research and submitted an abstract (which was
                      January 2021 at Kinmen, Republic                accepted) to an anthology on Zora Neale Hurston’s
                       of China (Taiwan) under the                    intellectual and literary contributions. Over the
                        auspices of the Taiwan Fellowship             summer Tereszkiewicz conducted preliminary archival
                        (awarded by Taiwan Ministry of                research on the San Francisco Housing Authority
                       Foreign Affairs, for year 2021)                (SFHA) and its architectural and political histories.
                      and affiliated with the Institute of            To advance her understanding of contemporary
                   Ethnology, Academia Sinica. His                    housing policies and debates, and build professional
research examines the political significance of temples               networks, Tereszkiewicz attended the Urban Land
and ritual festivals at Kinmen and the conflict-ridden                Institute’s Housing the Bay 2021 Summit. To explore
Taiwan Strait. He completed general exams in October                  the cultural and individual aesthetics of placemaking
2020, while serving as Assistant Instructor (AI) for                  more broadly, Tereszkiewicz completed the course
“Race, Gender, Empire,” taught by Professor Tiffany                   “Reimaging Blackness and Architecture,” offered
(Cain) Fryer. Apart from dissertation work, Tan also                  through the MoMA, and completed the course “‘A
co-authored two book chapters on the pandemic,                        Room of One’s Own’: Houses and Mental Landscapes
“Unsettling Contact: The Collapse of Emotional Distance               for Artists, Philosophers, and Writers,” offered through
at a COVID-19 Medical Frontline” (with anesthesiologist               Stanford’s summer sessions.
Phu Tran) and “Witnessing Amidst Distancing: Structural
Vulnerabilities and the Researcher’s Gaze in Pandemic                       Christopher Zraunig
Times” (with sociologist Amritorupa Sen). Both projects
                                                                                      In 2020-2021, Zraunig completed his
are funded by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative, and the
                                                                                         course work requirements for the
book is currently under review by the University of
                                                                                          graduate program as well as for the
Toronto Press.
                                                                                          certificate program in Gender and
                                                                                          Sexuality Studies. In spring 2021, he
                                                                                         finished his first general examination
                                                                                       essay on “queer epistemologies”.
                                                                                  Zraunig spent the summer working on
                                                                      his second essay, a discussion on the intersection
                                                                      of aging, disability and sexuality. He also conducted
                                                                      preliminary fieldwork in a queer, intergenerational
                                                                      housing & care project in Berlin for which he received
                                                                      funding from the American Ethnological Society,
                                                                      building on his digital ethnographic fieldwork from the
                                                                      previous year, as well as his participant observations
                                                                      from being a volunteer at the Queens Center for Gay
                                                                      Seniors.

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FIELDWORK PROPOSALS
Luke Forrester Johnson
The Predicament of Preference: Racial Erotics in Paris, France

Navjit Kaur
Forms and Lives of Savings in Muslim Punjab, India
Nikhil Pandhi
How Does Caste Make Us Sick? Chronicles of Injury, Endurance, Chronicity and Health Capital in
Contemporary India
Junbin Tan
Moving Men, Moving Gods: Temple Diplomacy at Kinmen and the Taiwan Strait

Luke Forrester Johnson

POST FIELDWORK PRESENTATIONS
Hannah Bradley
Changing Landscapes in the “Last Frontier”:
Reflections on fieldwork at home in Homer, Alaska
EB Saldaña
On Movement and Mobility in Kentucky:
Improvisation in the Field

                                                              Hanna Bradley

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GRADUATE AWARDS, POSTDOCS, JOBS
Tyler Adkins received the PIIRS Dissertation Writing Grant for next fall semester; this grant is awarded to graduate
students who work in international and regional studies.

Hannah Bradley received the Dean’s Completion Fellowship/PGRA Program. The fellowship allows six months to
complete dissertation followed by 6 months of a work appointment in the department.

Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie accepted a post doctoral position at Harvard Environmental Institute.

Ipsita Dey received the High Meadows Environmental Institute’s (HMEI) Walbridge Fund Graduate Award for
Environmental Research. The award provides research funding to pursue innovative research on climate science, energy
solutions, environmental policy or, more broadly, on other environmental topics.

Elizabeth Durham received the University Center for Human Values’ Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship
(GPF). This program recognizes and supports post-generals graduate students with distinguished academic records
whose dissertation research centrally involves the critical study of human values.

Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, Ph.D. *19 accepted a tenure track position at Leiden University, The Netherlands in
visual/urban anthropology.

Thalia Gigerenzer received the University Center for Human Values’ Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship
(GPF). This program recognizes and supports post-generals graduate students with distinguished academic records
whose dissertation research centrally involves the critical study of human values.

Brandon Hunter-Pazzara received the University Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship and Dean’s Completion
Fellowship/PGRA Program.

Luke Forrester Johnson received the Lurcy Fellowship for Study in France which seeks to promote friendship and
understanding between the peoples of the United States and France and, secondarily, between Americans and
Europeans in general.

Aleksandar Kostic received the Prize Fellowship in Social Sciences. This fellowship brings together graduate students and
faculty for presentations and dissertation discussion to examine multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives in relation to
important issues of international and domestic public policy.

Karolina Koziol received the PIIRS Dissertation Writing Grant for next fall semester; this grant is awarded to graduate
students who work in international and regional studies.

Alexandra Middleton accepted a three year post doctoral position at Lund University in Sweden.

Heath Pearson, Ph.D. *19 accepted a tenure track position at Georgetown University.

EB Saldaña received the Prize Fellowship in Social Sciences. This fellowship brings together graduate students and faculty
for presentations and dissertation discussion to examine multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives in relation to important
issues of international and domestic public policy.

Fatima Siwaju received the Princeton University Community College Teaching Fellowship. This program provides a
valuable, mentored experience by a tenured community college faculty member, and helps Princeton graduate students
to develop as teachers, providing them the opportunity to design and teach a course.

Serena Stein accepted a position as a research associate at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

Junbin Tan received a MOFA Taiwan Fellowship awarded to foreign experts and scholars interested in research related to
Taiwan, cross-strait relations, Asia-Pacific region and Sinology to conduct advanced research at universities or academic
institutions in Taiwan.

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LECTURES & EVENTS
                                 LECTURE SERIES 2020-21
OCTOBER 15                                                      FEBRUARY 4
Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University                         Stephan Palmié, The University of Chicago
“The Ancestors Call from the Future”                            With special commentary from
                                                                João de Pina-Cabral, University of Lisbon
OCTOBER 29                                                      “UNHINGED: On Ethnographic Games of Doubt
William Mazzarella, The University of Chicago                   and Certainty”
“On Patiency, or Don’t Just Do Something, Stand
There!”                                                         MARCH 24
                                                                Tiffany C. Fryer, Princeton University
DECEMBER 3                                                      “Rivers and Reconciliation: The Reconstruction of
Work-in-Progress                                                Environmental Memory in Times of Conflict and
                                                                Transition”
Mark Drury, Princeton University
“They film us... we film them: Human Rights Ac-                 MARCH 25
tivism and Proliferating Forms of Veillance in the              Work-in-Progress
Western Shara Conflict”                                         Jeffrey Himpele, Princeton University
                                                                “Warning: Graphic Content”
DECEMBER 16
Work-in-Progress                                                APRIL 8
Andrea Ballestero, Rice University                              William F. Hanks, University of California,
Book: “A Future History of Water”                               Berkeley,
                                                                “Ontological Commitment and De-subjectivation
JANUARY 22                                                      in Maya Shamanic Practice”
Work-in-Progress
Aimee Cox, Yale University
Book: “Shapeshifters”

JANUARY 26
Work-in-Progress
Khiara Bridges, University of California,
Berkeley School of Law
Book: “Reproducing Race”

JANUARY 27
Work-in-Progress
Yarimar Bonilla, Hunter College
“The coloniality of disaster: Race, empire, and
the temporal logics of emergency in Puerto
Rico, USA”

JANUARY 29
Work-in-Progress
Shannon Speed, UCLA
“On the Persistence of White Supremacy:
Structuring Logics of the Settler Capitalist State”

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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS 2020-21
SEPTEMBER 10                             JANUARY 18                               APRIL 9
“Pandemic Brazil: Economic and           “Wintersession Workshop:                 “Urban Studies Methods
Political Upheaval in Times of           ‘Safeguarding Amazonia’”                 Conversation: Urban Ecologies and
COVID-19”                                Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         Atmospheres”
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB                                                  Co-sponsored with Urban Studies
                                         FEBRUARY 9
SEPTEMBER 24                             “Being with Others: Language             MAY 6
“Arts of Resistance: Tearing Down        and Ethical Relationality among          “Perspectivas históricas e
and Creating Monuments in Brazil”        Thirunangai Transgender Women            antropológicas da pandemia ”
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         in Chennai, India ”                      Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB
                                         Co-sponsored with the Program in
                                         Gender and Sexuality Studies
OCTOBER 22                                                                            HIGHLIGHTED
“Amazonia on Fire: Revealing
Ecosystem Transformations
                                                                                    EVENTS FEATURING
and Threats with Science and                                                      ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY
Transparency”                                                                     SEPTEMBER 11
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB
                                                                                  Laurence Ralph
                                                                                  “ANIMATING THE TORTURE
OCTOBER 28                                                                        LETTERS: The Scars of Being Policed
“How can the study of religion                                                    While Black”
correct errors, raise new questions,                                              Sponsored by New York University
and elevate the public discourse?”       FEBRUARY 11
Co-sponsored with the Center for the     “How Indigenous Peoples Created          SEPTEMBER 29
Study of Religion                        Brazilian Biomes ”                       Laurence Ralph
                                         Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         Keller Center’s Innovation Forum
NOVEMBER 5                                                                        Sponsored by the Keller Center
FILM SCREENING                           MARCH 17
“Amazonia Undercover ”                   “Urban Studies Methods                   MARCH 2
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         Conversation: Urban Policing and         Agustín Fuentes
                                         Violence ”                               A Most Interesting Problem --
NOVEMBER 13                              Co-sponsored with Urban Studies          What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got
CONFERENCE                                                                        Wrong
”Clarice Lispector, 100 Years: A         MARCH 18                                 Sponsored by Labyrinth Books
Tribute to Her Life and Work”            “Democracy and Inequalities in
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB
                                         Brazil”                                  MARCH 24
                                         Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         Tiffany C. Fryer
NOVEMBER 16                                                                       “Dos Republicas: An Architecture
“The Cene Scene: Centering                                                        of Settler Colonialism Without
Indigenous and Black
                                         MARCH 25                                 Treaties”
Environments”                            “Insurgent Archivings: Decolonizing      Sponsored by Princeton American Indian
Co-sponsored with the Program in         the War of the False Saints              and Indigenous Studies Working Group
American Studies                         (Mucker) in a Southern Settler           and the Program in American Studies
                                         Frontier (1868-1874) ”
NOVEMBER 25                              Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB
“Musical Concert Agora Clarice and
Sonic Platform Clarice 100 Years”        APRIL 2
Co-sponsored with the Brazil LAB         “Material Histories of Latin
                                         America”
                                         Co-sponsored with the Program in Latin
                                         American Studies

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