Submit an abstract for our 2nd @italianglianetwork.bsky.social Symposium by Oct 10. We want to see your cool #glial research!!! The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9

Dr. Richard Grinker's New York Times op-ed about the history of autism, and how it's understood now, was published today.

Dr. Richard Grinker is featured in this NBC news segment about autism and its increasing rates of diagnosis.

The second review of my forthcoming Amarna Letters book is out, from Publishers Weekly: "...a remarkable glimpse into deep history and a savvy examination of an academic discipline's evolution." And just heard that 1177 BC will be translated into Indonesian -- that makes 21 foreign languages...

Lucia Kustra, our DIG President, is featured in this article discussing her primatology research as a member of Dr. Carson Murray's lab.

📆 It's September, which means it's time to think about your abstract submission to #AABA2026 in Denver! The abstract portal will open on September 15 and close on October 15. Check out the guidelines and start planning your submission: bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

Dr. Susan Johnston is quoted in this article about the archaeological work she, her colleague Dr. Suzanne Garrett, and their students have been conducting at Dun Ailinne. They have concluded this phase of excavations, and Dr. Susan Johnston will be working on publishing their findings.

Our own Sims Patton and Dr. Carson Murray are featured in this article! They discuss primatology while people-watching at the National Zoo. 🦍 🦧 🐒

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Hildebrandt! He successfully defended his dissertation Entangled Labor, Entangled Lives: Work, Reciprocity, and Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Jisr al-Zarqa on August 18th, 2025. Very well done!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kaplan! On August 12th, he successfully defended of his dissertation titled Cultivating the Umma: Muslim Mobilities and Everyday Aspirations in Istanbul. Great work!

In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 gwhatchet.com?p=1236817

The Disability Research Interest Group of SMA is pleased to announce this year’s Disability Anthropology Essay Prize competition. Submissions are due September 1! More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New 2 year temporary trust (not federal) job at Smithsonian NMNH posted today: data scientist, GIS support! Application deadline Aug 1, salary $120,579 - $156,755 / year. trustcareers.si.edu/postings/560...

Have an idea for an #AABA2026 symposium? The submission portal is OPEN! Check out the guidelines and submit your proposal by August 15 bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Miller! She successfully defended her dissertation on July 11th. It is titled Dopamine Receptor Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adult Rhesus Macaques and Resilience to Early Life Adversity. Excellent work!

Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...

Professor Bernard Wood discusses Homo and Paranthropus evolution, the Sahelanthropus femur, the taxonomy of H. naledi and H. floresiensis, and the importance of fossil access and data sharing in human origins research:

Congratulations to CASHP member, Sims Patton!

Congratulations to CASHP member, Joyce Waweru!

From the NMNH Paleobiology Department Chair: "Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History is hiring! We are looking to fill up to three (3) Museum Technician positions (term trust), which will be part of the Paleobiology Collections Management team to assist with a..." (1/2)

Dr. Shannon McFarlin offered her thoughts on this debate. She and the other gorilla experts featured in this article also emphasized the importance of gorilla conservation. 🦍 www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-wor...

Earlier this month, Dr. Richard Grinker gave the keynote address at the D.C. Science Writers Association's Professional Development Day. gwtoday.gwu.edu/science-writ...

The amenity kit building station has been restocked! 🧼🪥🩹🧦 Stop by HAH to stock up on supplies for the summer!

Notice any duck graduates hidden around campus? 🦆🎓 There are several in the Hortense Amsterdam House that were left by the CCAS Dean's Office. If you find one, take it home!

The CASHP Master's Showcase was a great success! Thank you to Anya Parks-Russell and Joyce Waweru for putting this all together!

Dr. Richard Grinker will be at InnovationFest today from 2 pm to 3 pm! He will be meeting attendees and signing copies of his book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Proud to have contributed to this project about middle Miocene bovid body mass estimates, presented at my first Paleoanthropological Society meeting.

Hands down, Kate Fish wins the best slide at the Paleoanthros conference today. 😂☠️

Feel free to grab a Play-Doh egg from the Table of Whimsy in HAH, located outside of Dr. Brenda Bradley's office. 🐣 Embrace your inner sculptor to take your mind off the end of the semester.

Stop by and visit the Slave Wrecks Project booth at the GW InnovationFest on May 1. They will be there from 10 am to 3 pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the research they do around the world.

Hooray for Delta Iota Gamma (D.I.G.), GW's archaeology-themed fraternity, which was started by seven GW students after the 2017 season at Tel Kabri and now has more than 100 active members (and a large number of alumni)! gwhatchet.com/2025/04/14/b...

Join us for a lecture by Dr. Euclides Gonçalves: Renewing the Anthropology of the Here and Now: Memes and Contingency in Contemporary Africa When: Friday, April 18, 2025 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Where: Elliott School of International Affairs | Room 112 1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Cover reveal. Coming in November... And, apparently, now available for preorder at either Amazon or directly from Princeton University Press: www.amazon.com/Love-War-Dip... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Join us for GW Anthropology's Annual Symposium! When: TOMORROW, Friday, April 4th from 10:00am-5:00pm Where: State Room, 7th Floor Elliot School, 1957 E St NW, Washington, DC 20052

Congratulations to Dr. Emma Backe! She successfully defended her dissertation on March 25th. It is titled Breathing Through the Wound: Co-opting Care and Surviving Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa. Excellently done!

If you didn't get the chance to attend Sheryl Gay Stolberg's public lecture last week, you can now view the C-SPAN recording of it by following this link: www.c-span.org/program/publ... This event was sponsored in part by GW Anthropology's "Rituals in the Making"

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Grinker for being this year's recipient of the CCAS Cynthia Dietch Faculty Trailblazer Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Niguss Baraki! On March 25th, he successfully defended his dissertation titled Coevolution of Stone Tools and Hominin Hand Morphology. Excellent work!

Join us on March 17th at 4:30 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CASHP with a lecture from Dr. Zeray Alemseged.

Contact Dr. Agbelusi if you would like to join our historical archaeology field school at Mount Vernon this summer. Enrollment begins on March 17th.

Just received pics from last Spring's Honors ceremony at GW, where I received the 2024 OVPR (Office of the Vice President for Research) Distinguished Career Award. Tremendous honor, for which I am most grateful!

This summer, GW will be offering a course in Portugal during the entire month of June. Apply by 3/19!

The work of Dr. Stephen Lubkemann, Dr. Raquel Machaqueiro, and Yariana Rodriguez is featured in this article by The New Yorker about the Slave Wrecks Project.

Congratulations to Dr. Chet Sherwood for his recently awarded grant from the NIH! He will be studying the effects of lifespan and cardiovascular health on human and great ape brains.

We would like to celebrate Dr. Ilana Feldman for being awarded the 2025 Trachtenberg Prize for Service here at GW, as well as Clara Mariencheck for winning the 2025 Philip Amsterdam Graduate Student Teaching Award. Congratulations to them both!

pretty fun to see my recent paper (Barr and Wood, 2024) listed in this list of 100 significant paleoanthropology papers compiled in honor of the 100th year anniversary of the naming of Australopithecus.

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Nick Rosas! Today he successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled Middle Miocene Artiodactyl Dispersal and Ecology: Implications for Hominid Evolution.

Prof. David Braun and colleagues have been conducting fieldwork and lab research to study the use of wooden tools by chimpanzees. By analyzing how chimps use these tools, they are learning more about how human tool use has changed over time. See the GWToday article: gwtoday.gwu.edu/inside-ancie...