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Robert B. Edgerton has passed away
Professor Robert B. Edgerton passed away following a stroke on July, 2016 at the age of 84. Professor Edgerton had a distinguished 47-year career at UCLA, where he also received […]
UCLA Anthropologists study laughter around the world
Anthropologists Daniel Fessler, Brooke Scelza, and Edward Clint (graduate student), and Greg Bryant of UCLA Communication Studies have found that all around the world, people hearing only brief instances of […]
Sondra Hale receives honorary doctorate
Professor Emerita Sondra Hale has received an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts from Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. Prof. Hale has worked in Sudan for many years.
2 Anthropology graduate students win self portrait photo contest
Two UCLA Anthropology graduate students have won the Social Sciences Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program photo contest. Both are currently conducting field research, in Japan and Turkey, respectively. […]
Robert Lemelson releases new eBook Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
In Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide, UCLA anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Robert Lemelson and culture, arts, and disabilities studies scholar Annie Tucker culminate decades-long clinical ethnographic research in Indonesia […]
Stephen Acabado named a 2015 Hellman Fellow
Assistant Professor Stephen Acabado has been named a 2015 Hellman Fellow. The Hellman Fellows Fund supports promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Professor Acabado has just […]
Professor Emeritus B.J. Williams passes away
Dear Colleagues,I regret to inform you that Bob Williams, known to us as B. J., one of our Professors Emeritus, has passed away. He was a biological anthropologist specializing in […]
Anthropology graduate wins UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research
By Jessica Portner (Naturalist, August & September 2015)Hilo Sugita, a volunteer for nearly three years in the Museum’s Anthropology Department, has won a UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research for […]
Colin Holbrook discusses unconscious racial bias on KCRW and KPCC
Public Radio interviews with the Department’s Research Scientist Colin Holbrook, based on recently published findings with Professor Dan Fessler and alumnus Carlos Navarrete, that men with stereotypically black names are […]
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