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Graduate student Sucharita Kanjilal discusses her research on taste, tomatoes, and caste in India
Graduate student Sucharita Kanjilal recently wrote a paper about taste, tomatoes, and caste and was just featured on a food podcast: https://www.eatthispodcast.com/butter-chicken/ Her peer-reviewed paper: https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article-abstract/21/3/1/118236/Beyond-BourdieuWhat-Tomatoes-in-Indian-Recipes
Remembering Michael Moerman
Dear friends and colleagues, It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of Emeritus Professor Michael Moerman on August 22nd, 2020. Professor Moerman received a BA […]
Justin Dunnavant selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Dr. Justin Dunnavant, an incoming professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected as one of “15 global changemakers” for the National Geographic 2021 Emerging Explorer cohort. Read more […]
Salih Can Açiksöz discusses his book Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey
Prof. Salih Can Açiksöz discusses his book Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey with Celia Lacayo, Prof. of Chicano/a Studies & African American Studies and Division of […]
Kyeyoung Park discusses her new book, LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest
Prof. Kyeyoung Park discusses her new book LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest with Celia Lacayo, Prof. of Chicano/a Studies & African American Studies and […]
Norma Mendoza-Denton in NY Times: Biden reclaiming the Obama-era vision of America
Professor Norma Mendoza-Denton is quoted in the New York Times article, “The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden Administration.” Prof. Mendoza-Denton is the author of the book […]
Justin Dunnavant featured on Hulu’s “Your Attention Please”; Hulu donates to the Society of Black Archaeologists
Incoming professor Justin Dunnavant is featured an episode of Hulu’s “Your Attention Please” season 2. In honor of Black History Month and season 2 of “Your Attention Please,” Hulu is […]
Justin Dunnavant named to The Explorers Club 50 list
Incoming UCLA Anthropology professor Justin Dunnavant has been named to The Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World the World Needs to Know About. The Explorers Club 50 are […]