THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY - 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 2 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
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 AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 3
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). 4 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
FACULTY NEWS 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. AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 5
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 6 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
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, AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 7
FACULTY NEWS 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, 88 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
FACULTY NEWS 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 AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 99
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 10 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
GRADUATE NEWS 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. AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 11 11
GRADUATE NEWS 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. 12 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
GRADUATE NEWS 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 AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 13
GRADUATE NEWS 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. 14 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
GRADUATE FIELDWORK 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 AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 15
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. 16 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
PH.D. RECIPIENTS AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 17
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” 18 Anthropology@Princeton AR20-21
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 AR20-21 Anthropology@Princeton 19
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