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Anthropology Scotland Day
Anthropologists across Scotland are coming together to showcase their subject for S4-S6 school pupils. The event will take place at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh on Friday 10 June from 10am-3pm.
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New exhibition: 'Rediscovering Stories: Student Encounters with Museum Collections'
An exhibition curated by students on the 4th year course 'Anthropology, Museums, and Society' has just opened in the University Office. 'Rediscovering Stories: Student Encounters with Museum Collections' takes as its focus items gifted by graduates and friends of the University over the last two centuries. Students undertook archival...
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Anthropology Alumna Rows to Victory
Elo Luik, who graduated with first class Honours in Anthropology, was part of the successful Oxford University Women's rowing team who convincingly beat Cambridge University in this year's Women's Boat Race.
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Anthropology Ranked in World Top 100
Congratulations to the Department of Anthropology which has been ranked in the Top 100 in the QS World University Ranking.
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Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship available
The Department of Anthropology announces a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, in partnership with National Museums Scotland and with the support of the Smithsonian Institution: 'North to the Arctic: a Scottish view of Inuit technology 1779-1939'. The deadline for applications is Monday 11 April.
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Oral literature fieldwork fund success
Anthropology PhD student Erin Consiglio has been awarded a large fieldwork grant from the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research to conduct research on Gwich'in oral literature in Canada. Erin's fieldwork will also be supported by the ERC Advanced Grant project Arctic Domus. Congratulations Erin!
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Graduate research fellowship awarded
Jason Falkenburg has been awarded a graduate research fellowship to undertake his PhD as part of the "Housing Heritage: Exploring, theorising and problematising multiple kinds of heritage making" research group at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo in conjunction with the University of Oslo. Jason’s project will investigate Norwegian cultural...
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Artist heading for residency in the Department of Anthropology
Poet and artist Alec Finlay will be joining the Department of Anthropology from July 2016 to April 2017 as Artist in Residence. He and Dr Jo Vergunst have been successful in their application to the Leverhulme Trust for a project on landscape and place names in Scotland. Alec will be...
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New network launched: 'Humans and Other Living Beings'
Dr Sara Asu Schroer of the Department of Anthropology is convening a new network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists: 'Humans and Other Living Beings'. It will respond to the interest in extending ethnographic research beyond the human to include other living beings as active participants in shared social...
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PhD student prizewinner in Anglo-Bolivan Society
Anthropology PhD student Chuck Sturtevant has won joint first prize in the Anglo-Bolivian Society dissertation competition.