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.
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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 colaughter produced by pairs of American English speakers in real conversations are able to reliably identify friends and strangers. Participants’ judgments of friendship status were […]
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 to provide an innovative landmark educational centerpiece—a multimedia eBook study guide and documentary film now available on iTunes. The film and guide are aimed at intro-level undergraduate students […]
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 had a new book published; Antiquity, archaeological processes, and highland adaptation: The Ifugao rice terraces.The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established in 2011 with an initial gift […]
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 population genetics who carried out research among the Birhor of India and wrote an early textbooks in the field, “Evolution and Human Origins: An Introduction […]
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 her work on a pair of ancient Egyptian coffins donated to the Museum in 1928. Sugita, who earned her B.A. in Anthropology last spring, said […]
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 imagined as larger and more dangerous:KCRW | KPCC
Lemelson Honors Program student researches Cambodian tourism industry
Read the article at The Daily Bruin.