Professor Jonah Steinberg has begun a new project in Marseille, France, where he looks at sections where the Romas and the refugees intersect. His focus is on their relationship and the feelings that stem from this: segregation, expulsion, and rejection. After travelling back and forth between Burlington and India for years, he is also writing […]
Professor Luis Vivanco’s upcoming travels and research.
After being inspired by a friend to look into the impacts of biking in a community, Luis Vivanco ventures into a new research opportunity around the world. His adventure began in Bogota, during 2014, where he was doing ethnographic research on the city’s bike culture and politics. Bogota has one of the worlds best developed […]
Professor Luis Vivanco and Collaborators Awarded NEH Grant to Update the Popular Image of Vermont Farmer
We are pleased to announce one of Luis Vivanco’s collaborations has resulted in a prestigious NEH grant. See stories reporting on this important project designed to broaden the image of the “Vermont farmer” to include the diversity of individuals represented in Vermont agriculture here and here.
Professor John Crock’s Caribbean Research Highlighted in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology
‘Marineness’, the Underwater Seascape and Variability in Maritime Adaptations in the Late Ceramic Age Northern Lesser Antilles by John G. Crock, Nanny Carder and Wetherbee Dorshow To investigate potential variation between the fishing practices of contemporaneous Late Ceramic Age villages in the northern Lesser Antilles, we model expectations for each site based on local marine […]
Professor Teresa Mares new columnist for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Professor Teresa Mares has been asked to serve as a quarterly columnist for the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Her column, “Cultivating Comida” will focus on the themes of food justice and race/ethnicity in the food system, with a specific focus on Latinx communities and immigrants. Her first column “Finding Comida in […]
Faculty Feature on Jonah Steinberg
Associate professor and cultural anthropologist Jonah Steinberg tells the story of how he first became interested in those living at the “extreme social edge.” Steinberg’s current research, funded by a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation, explores the lives of runaway children in North India. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=24595&category=uvmhome
Congratulations to Professor Dickinson on her Fulbright Award!
Professor Jennifer (“J”) Dickinson has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Ukraine from the U.S. Department of state and J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Her research topic is “Lviv’s Deaf Community: Language and Identity in a Time of Transition,” a project that combines ethnographic and oral historical research to understand continuity and […]
Anthropology Faculty Awarded UVM CAS Grants
Congratulations to three Anthropology professors, Jennifer Dickinson, Teresa Mares, and Jeanne Shea who were recently awarded research and teaching grants from UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences. Jennifer Dickinson was awarded CAS International Travel Funds to present a paper at the Association for East European and Eurasian Studies/ International Association for the Humanities (ASEEES-MAG joint conference) […]
Forthcoming Book by Jonah Steinberg!
It’s official — Jonah Steinberg’s second book, A Garland of Bones, is under contract with Yale University Press. A Garland of Bones considers child runaways in postcolonial context from spatial, ethnographic, and historical vantage points, with emphases on relationships between rural change and children’s departures and on the place of runways as undesirable subjects in […]
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